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Maybe someday I'll learn from some more wise gents on this forum, and simply ignore post 1940 issues
Jon-
I hope you won't want to totally ignore post 1940 sets, you'd miss out on the US WWII Overrun Countries issues. A gorgeous set. And the US did some fine things for the US's 200 year anniversary.
Yes, I can see how all of that can be overwhelming in regards to where to start, if it is a project of seemingly infinite length. But maybe the answer is in just certain sets. Try not to look at the collection as a whole, but just focus on interesting sets. When one is completed, find another one and move on to it. Break it into smaller parts, you know.
My five album set of US stamps consists of airmail, regular issues and commemoratives, and I must admit with failing humility, all airmail and post 1940 is complete and unused to CY 1988. (But I don't focus much on varieties.) And I have all 150 US airmail stamps unused.
I decided what to collect when I started out and it pretty much depended on the cost of the genres of stamps. Now I am into the pre-1922 classics where things do get costly. My challenge now is to find a way to fill as many of these holes as I can, without winding up out on the street with just my stamp collection in my shopping cart.
-Chris
Posted 07/28/2015 6:49 pm
But do not be mistaken, there are still plenty of empty spaces for missing stamps in those albums, they are by no means 'loaded'.
However I do not want to corrupt this excellent OCD-related thread from Ikeypikey with more pics off my own stuff posted directly in this thread. 
