You May Be Stamp Collector If ... [part 4]

If you are watching a TV program where a wealthy man's house is broken into, he is murdered and the cabinet where his stamp collection is housed is broken into, but the stamps are not stolen - and we never get to see what is in the collection. Oh, and the rest of the program is ruined for me because all I care about now is to take a peek in those albums.

You may be a stamp collector if....

If all your food tastes like hinges.

If your vacuum contains large amounts of salvage.

If you have a sofa that rocks because you have stolen the furniture coasters to use as watermark trays.

If your car license plate reads 'stampman'.

If your honeymoon happened to coincide with an international stamp show.

If you spend more on albums, hinges, mounts, and catalogs than you do on stamps.

If you have a large accumulation of various, loose album pages that you won't throw away.

If you are willing to spend an evening removing and recycling used mounts.

If you think that dressing your kid up as a mailbox for Halloween is a good idea.

Don

Oh that's a good one, Artful

You might be a stamps collector if:

You want to own a perforating machine because you think it would be "really neat" to perforate all of your checks before sending them out.

While paying bills you notice that on one envelope there isn't enough gum on the flap to properly seal it, and having no scotch tape in the house but a lot of duplicate Vatican stamps you use one of them to seal the flap.

Having inherited a lot of "discount postage" and having no real use for it, you still can't bear to part with any of it, even though you are recently retired and could use the cash.

You see this in an underground train station and ask, "How was this door marked with a 19th century French cancel?"

You see E PLURIBUS UNUM somewhere and immediately think "no double transfer" (there is one on the $2 second and $2 third issue revenues).

You are a stamp collector if when you empty your mailbox and look at the envelopes it's the stamps you look at first. Daniel

You affix 6 to 8 stamps to mail a domestic rate letter.

you specialize in a country where you once lived as a child, Iran, and you can't send, sell or mail stamps to or from it.

At the stamp club your always asked, 'Why Iran?'

You ain't got a clue on the language.

And you just like the stamps

Ha ha, spot on!

You might be a stamp collector if..

While watching a TV program or movie and any character is holding a stamped envelope you try to determine if the stamp used is of the correct country, denomination and time period for what it is being used on.

Spain_1850: Guilty on this one!

... your wife presents you with these spiffy cufflinks and you reply, "That's wonderful, darling, but I think the cancels are fake"

You are cleaning out a large stack of old correspondence of your Dad's, with many interesting letters. Some of these letters might reveal interesting things about the history of your family. Since your Dad collected stamps, most of the envelopes are missing the stamps (cut off).

You only keep the (few) letters that still have stamps on them, regardless of whether they still have contents.

Guilty.