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01. Joys
02. Terms
03. Tools
04. Starting
05. Resources
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Introduction - Funny thing about albums.
First, they hold memories – preserve remembrances of your son’s 10th birthday party somewhere in a busy downtown restaurant in Rio de Janeiro, the volleyball tournament on the beach that hot summer day, the forbidden snap shot of a famous painting in the museum that you got reprimanded for, security guards threatening to boot you out of the premises.
01. Joys - You will probably meet very few people who say they have never collected anything in their life. But there are people, even when not deliberately collecting a particular object, who tend to have more than one of the same thing. It can be anything – tennis socks of different colors, brand name trainers, books by a particular author or CDs of their favorite singer.
02. Terms - The very first stamps that came out did not have perforations, but cutting them became cumbersome. Perforating machines came into use to solve this problem. They punch holes vertically and horizontally so that stamps can be torn from the sheet more easily.
03. Tools - Thank goodness, stamp collecting is not as expensive a hockey or skiing, where the tools and materials required cost thousands of dollars. Hockey or ski clothes are very expensive.
Stamp collecting is what we’d call a “financially comfortable” hobby. Unless you join the big leagues and treat it as an investment, practicing the hobby shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg.
04. Starting - Obviously the first step is to acquire stamps. Many beginning collectors hardly pay for anything when they’re just starting to build a collection. Talk to your friends and family and colleagues in the office and simply tell them you’d like to have their stamps if they don’t want them.
05. Resources - Stamp collecting is an enriching hobby because it has educational and cultural value. In about six months, you shall have learned about countries and special events, and a lot about the stamp collecting industry as well. You will probably meet a lot of interesting fellow collectors with whom you can swap notes and news.
Conclusion - Stamp collecting is probably one of man’s older pursuits that can be labeled “wholesome” and “promising.”
It is wholesome because of the educational and cultural value that collectors are treated to every time they acquire a stamp.
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