I Must Say That Today Was A Great Day!!

@Geo maybe that's what he was saying, maybe not. Either way I don't understand how by sharing images here weather on pages or my kitchen table, changes the overall purpose of the post. I will be organizing them to suit my likings. I'm just enjoying them as I work my way through the many I've yet to get to. As I'm doing so, I usually set aside ones that I really like or those that I've seen somewhere and read upon. I'm not in any way trying to play tennis with our differences and opposing views. I can definitely respect both sides of the fence.

That is the beauty of collecting. You are free to do as you please. Heck, I have a WW "collection" on 102 cards in red boxes. I may mount them all some day or I may not. My stamps - My choice. And you can bet that when I go to the great bargain box in the sky there will be boxes of unprocessed stuff for my executor to executate.

@51 I understand what you're saying and my apologies for how I worded what I said. Definitely could've said that in a different way. I didn't mean everyone obviously but they do exist. I just felt like he was being rude a bit! Also spoke on behalf of the community when saying " sharing pictures does nothing for the community "

Hi Gswarriorz510,
Understood. Please remember that snide comments are not only a part on any online forum but also a part of life. I try to be sensitive to the 'plight' of ladies in this hobby; it is dominated by men and I feel philately would benefit by having more diversity. My wife often wants to come along with me to my local stamp club but she has been put off by some of the comments she has received. A thick skin is especially worthy online, I think that the anonymous nature of this media sometimes gives people a license to be more snarky than they might be face-to-face.

But at the end of the day our common ground is our hobby. The Mods here do what we can to maintain a family friendly community but it is not feasible to begin trying to guess a poster's 'intent'. Best practice is to ignore those who rub you the wrong way and if you feel anyone has crossed a line then please message one of the Mods.
Don

One of the great things about philately is that there are no rules. You can collect what you want, how you want. If you want to collect one-legged, overweight clowns on stamps and put them on the door of your refrigerator using magnets, you can. Although I have seen several posts and thought that I would have done something differently, it didn't mean that the poster's way of doing things was wrong, only that I had a different opinion (which I kept to myself).

As far as doing something with the stamps you buy, I have albums for all of my primary interests (USA, Canal Zone, Hawaii, Canada, British Virgin Islands, British Solomon Islands, Rhodesia, French Polynesia, and Iceland) as well as a set of Minkus Global Master Albums. I am quick to mount all of my specialized items in the proper albums but the general worldwide stuff generally goes into a box. I occasionally open up a box and mount worldwide stuff but not very often. Probably 80% of my stamps are worldwide stamps that don't fall into my areas of interest and, therefore, reside in one box or another. Is this wrong? In my mind, the answer is no, and as it is my collection, my opinion is the only one that counts when it comes to what I do with them.

I enjoy looking at other people's treasures, whether they are mounted or not. Instead of being negative about how other people collect, we should just be glad that they are interested is stamps and try to encourage their further participation in the forum or say nothing at all.

By the way GSwarriorz510, I like your Mozambique Company #C16 airmail. Although not one of my primary interests, I have always liked the stamps of the Mozambique Company and am thinking of focusing more on them in the future.

Coastwatcher wrote: "the general worldwide stuff generally goes into a box." Ha, Ha, Ha, memories........ In 2013,

I ended what was, I think, my longest time of a collection in a box or envelope. That year, I finally got around to re-mounting a small collection, slightly less than 100 stamps, of Montenegro that I bought in 1975. Still had the original invoice, which I saved as a souvenir.

Can't beat the former owner, in Chicago, of the long missing Jenny invert that went to auction last year. It sat in a safe deposit box for 100 years.

And on a totally different train of thought, I believe the airmail cancellations are actually overprints

Thanks don understand your message as well!
@coastwatcher thanks! Appreciate it

Hey Will, really? I'm not sure at all I'll have to check into this