Help With My New Stamp Collection

Cougar01 has hit the nail on the head!

I understand the comment about parents who thought stamp collecting was a waste of time. At first, my mom and dad were supportive, as long as I only wanted to get the .25 packets from Woolworth's. When I wanted to go to an actual stamp store in Atlanta, that was when the support withered, especially on my mom's side of it. Still at it 53 years later, though, and I haven't regretted it a bit.

Call me strange, but I don't let value decide whether I keep a stamp or not. I just love looking at them and admiring all the different people, places, designs and stuff on them. I'm a new collector too, but value is far from my mind. I just bought a big box full of god-knows-what stamps for $15.00 off ebay just heaped in a shoebox, it will be a great start to my collection! I plan to put them in plastic slabs and make my own little name cards for them so I know what they are and how old. I already found an old wooden and felt cutlery box at goodwill that is not divided that I can store them in.

I always liked looking at stamps when I was little, I just had other things I was doing in my life as a kid (videogames mostly - lol) and I didn't give them any attention, but now I think I should.

It would be fitting for me to do, since my late father put in 30 years of service to the USPS, so I'm sure he would have loved to have encouraged me to do so even though he hated having a cluttered house (he died when I was 10, I am 25 now).