Lucy Lime

I have turned into a mega-nerd. Please, let me share with you my stamp collection. Well, a small part of it.

I have always loved stickers and stamps are just a type of sticker, right? Well, I had this great idea that instead of collecting things that collect dust and are a huge pain to lug around, I would do the stamp thing. I mean, I found myself buying panes of them at the PO when a new one came out. I have decided not to do it for value; rather, for personal taste. I saved a few that my husband and I got in Ireland and I still have a couple of books from when I lived up in Canada. The following are my recent additions:

I hope that my son will eventually like them and he can share in this little hobby of mine.

My mom collects Dreamscicles and somewhere down the line, someone started buying me Boyd’s Bears. I have never really liked collecting these things (although I do have a snow globe that my Mom-in-law 1 bought me that I hold on to) and I can’t think of what to do with them.

With stamps, I can store them all in a binder and not worry about junking up my house or breaking them when moving.

One of my earlies memories, and fondest, was of my grandfather teaching me how to steam stamps off of envelopes. He was not a big collector or anything but it was back in the day before cell phones and when a letter was cheaper than a phone call. I remember gazing at stamps from other places, longing to travel to them. There were a lot of stamps floating around and I have loved them since.