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

If you go for a cycle.............

If you buy a bigger house just to have extra bathroom in your stamp room .

Cool bike, Rod.

The mailing cost for that bike was expensive.

That's funny

...you search, high and low, for the stamps you were working on yesterday,

only to find them hours later, under the scanner lid.

- Good one Rod - been there!!

You finally find those stamps you've been looking for and buy them. Then,a year later, you find that you now have two of them.

Jack Kelley

Lol, done that!

I have a variation of this one that I run into quite often. I have a large-format (A3-size) flatbed scanner with a large, heavy lid. I often scan 100+ stamps at once, then bulk separate the individual stamp images.

Because of the time it takes to post the images to my website or build their album pages, I sometimes don't get back to the actual stamps until the next day. Inevitably, I forget they're on the scanner bed and whip the lid open like it's hiding a bowl of ice cream. Stamps everywhere...

Yep, done that too.

I have also had on occaision, a rapscallion adhere lightly to the scanner lid,
(die cut maybe?)

You later scan a completed page, before placing in your Album, and hello!
when you open the image, there is a Kangaroo, sitting in the middle of a Page of Central Lithuania.

When you get this card from your in-laws:




And your first reaction is "Why is the stamp Blue?"


Joe

Nice.
Great gift.
Someone really knows you.

You may be a stamp collector if.........

You are cataloguing a packet of Zambia, that has a stamp from Zaire mixed in, .......and you spend 10 minutes searching the Zambia catalogue.

You might be a stamp collector if...

you buy a collection just to get a precious few items you can't find anywhere else...and you plan to flip the remainders but never do.