When Did You Begin Collecting Stamps, As An Adult, Or As A Child?

I was about 8 or 9 when the bug bit me. Only interrupted it some 20 years ago due to a bout of cancer. After all the treatment fun I picked it up again and never looked back


Peter

I started at age 11. They were collecting for the missions and I was interested in the learning/ history. Stopped as a young man as many do pursuing other interests in life as well as a career.

Then at age 30 I got involved in club and became serious attending auctions, shows. Enjoy it even more now that I took earky retirement, can do more.

Mike

I started when I was around 8. Collected for a few years. I got interested cause a friend of my brother did it. My brother collected for a year or two, lost interest and handed over his and I combined them. When I lost interest my mom saved them and added to them. Unfortunately when she passed someone made off with then and sold them.

I was 6, 1969. And unlike many who gave it up during their teenage years to pursue other interests and worried about being called a "geek", I never stopped.

Spain 1850, never worried about the geek factor. I just looked at them as geeks for not understanding the attraction.

Mike

Even though I had a collection as a youth that I picked up from the back of a boys life magazine I voted adult. I quit before my teens and am one of the lucky few that inherited an advanced but small collection of my grandmothers. I just chose to add on to it instead of selling it off.

I began collecting stamps six years ago at age 60.

I started when I was eight, 1957, first class postage was still three cents. I started because my older cousin collected, and I wanted to do everything he did. Stopped for eight years in high school and college, then started back up in graduate school.

I was 3 when I started looking over my brother's shoulder. It did not take long with a father and a brother collecting.

Got serious about stamp collecting when a missionary came to our Sunday School class . He told us God wanted us to help the missionary "Save the World " and bow our heads and think about it . Then he asked those to raise their hand if your going to "Save the world" . I raised my hand while holding those African stamps that the missionary gave each one of us a few stamps at the start of the class.

Takes a lot of albums to "save the world".

Started collecting at 10 years old, on again/off again during my military career, started building a serious collection about 5 or 6 years ago as more financial resources became available.

I began when I was seven when my grandmother gave mea Harris Explorer album (I still have it). She gave me stamps she saved from the mail to put in it. Like a lot of others I set it aside while in high school, picked it up again in grad school and really jumped back in after attending attending a bourse after our kids had gotten into elementary school. A lot of people might be like me, really getting serious about collecting when they become an adult, but I do't know if I would have engaged if somebody hadn't planted the seed when I was a kid.

I would've been 5 when my Dad started me off. I've never really stopped but there have been brief periods when I've been very inactive.

Started at age 11, thanks to my Granddad showing me some of his collection including the Tonga gold 'coin' stamps. I collected enthusistically for two years until we had to pack everything away for a protracted house move, when I didn't see my stamps for months and mainly forgot about it.

Although I maintained a vague interest as years went on, I only really resumed collecting when I hit the age of 40/41. I realised that as an adult, with an income, and ebay, I could get serious and collect properly.