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The amount of time I devote to stamp collecting is not governed by the time of year. Sometimes I feel I need a break, and I take one. Other times I am deeply involved in studying and acquiring. All according to whichever activity suits me (and my wallet).
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No.......I spend much more time during the summer on stamps.
Summer hell in Phoenix Arizona is kind of like winter in northern Minnesota and at times can be very extreme, I stay indoors if possible. when it is 105 F and over,except when that nasty thing called work requires me to be outside and stamps fit the bill nicely. It's even too hot to hang out in the pool and drink cold ones when the sun is blasting away. Now after the sun goes down, the pool and the cold ones are just what the doctor ordered.
I do at times in the winter drag a few albums outside and spend a few hours on the patio though.
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During the summer I don't spend nice daylight hours on my hobbies. There's too much to do outdoors, in the pool and working on the gardens. I do work on hobbies in the evenings, especially once my wife has tuned into "Prancing With The Stars" or those bachelor show, or anything Kardashian! That's my cue to find something interesting to do.
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Ok, good input !!!
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Yes much less.
The summer months are great to snap up auction lots.
Like Thomas when my wife tunes in to TV shows like 'Say yes to the dress', 'Long Island medium', 'Newly weds' and so on, it means evening stamping time for me too.
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Arno, You have to enjoy the "summer" weather while you can..we were in The Netherlands in April, i finlally got to see the tulip fields in bloom..but after hearing how the winters are milder than ours i was surprised how cold and blustery it was .
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Yes I definitely spend less time over the summer working on my collection.
With the sun shining and the beach a short walk away for me I put my collection away at the start of the summer and rarely go back there until the rains come in December.
An added problem in August is the heat and humidity makes my hands and forearms sweaty and damages the album pages.
I should point out that I live on the Costa Del Sol where the summer tends to be guaranteed sun from June to December.
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"Like Thomas when my wife tunes in to TV shows like 'Say yes to the dress', 'Long Island medium', 'Newly weds' and so on, it means evening stamping time for me too."
Long Island Medium... I told my wife she looks more like a LARGE to me!
And I guess that means we're exporting all this bad culture to Europe? Man, you all must think we're a nation of idiots.
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I know you're not. I worked and lived a while in Boston (Waltham), one of the best times in my live. Over the years I have had many positive experiences with Americans. (In Boston I gained 20 pounds however, the price to pay for the good life 
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I spend the summer afternoons with my stamps. It's way too hot to be enjoyable down here in SE Florida. The mornings I go to work. The two days off are spent on the house in the morning and then stamps in the evening, while my husband tunes into H2, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Car Auctions, BBC America, Walking Dead, and during the day SOCCER! We however do enjoy watching NASCAR, F1 and open wheel races together. Usually I have some stamps that need to be sorting!
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" and during the day SOCCER!"
Being retired, I don't find any difference due to the seasons, except as it relates to weather. In winter, we tend to travel more, so less "stamping" in winter for me.
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I buy all year but do most of my sorting and mounting after the baseball season ends.
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i can relate to all...being retired and content in the Hudson Valley..where it seems to be either hot or cold...the stamps,catalogs and computer are never far away. I do not spend extended periods with the stamps..just little mini vacations a few times a day !
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Good discussion. Interesting to note, the traffic on our web server goes up significantly during the northern hemisphere summer.
Regards ... Tim
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Just one more small cover ? You are too humble !
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I work on my stamps almost constantly year round except when I try to spend a little time with my wife while she watches reality shows--in particular "Say Yes to the Dress" and will they "Love it or List it. I watch until I just want to scream "Buy the dress and go home and if you are going to spend that much on a dress your fiance is crazy to marry you. My daughter got married a number of years ago and I told my wife make it nice and don't tell me what it cost. To this day I don't know and don't care but I got two great grandsons and a great son-in-law so who can complain.
Not to get far off topic but were do these young couples on their first job and buying their first house come up with a budget of $650,000? My first house after I got my first job cost $41,000 and I was not sure how I was going to handle the payments and I had a good job.
Back to stamps. I am trying something new this summer. I ordered several lots of stamps from a favorite dealer and I am going to mount them all before I buy anything else. In the past, I would start and get side tracked into something else and never finish the first lots. I was going thru boxes this summer in the basement and finding lots I bought 3 to 4 years ago
I am retired and able to spend as much time as I want on stamps BUT my wife is now also retired and I am not sure how long that will last. So far in the last month she as cleaned every room in the house twice and they weren't dirty to start with. I will go low key and hope she doesn't notice me.
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"I will go low key and hope she doesn't notice me."
Why? Are you afraid that she'll start washing you twice a day?
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"Buy the dress and go home and if you are going to spend that much on a dress your fiance is crazy to marry you."
My daughter is getting married next August so we're fully into dress shopping mode.. not that I go, I just have to hear about it.
"Not to get far off topic but were do these young couples on their first job and buying their first house come up with a budget of $650,000? My first house after I got my first job cost $41,000 and I was not sure how I was going to handle the payments and I had a good job.
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I live in a neighborhood in that price range, but like you my first house was $48,000 and it took me three houses to get to the house I now own. At our last HOA Christmas party there was a group of young couples who had recently bought into the neighborhood... the houses were built in the mid 1990s and many of the original owners remain, but their kids are about the age of these couples who could afford $600,000. So when we see them walking around the neighborhood, we've all assumed they were someone's kids! Part of what makes housing affordable today is very low interest rates. Some of these kids bought into this neighborhood around 3%. A far cry from buying my $48,000 house at 15% interest!
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I paid $14,200 for our 4 bedroom Cape Cod in 1967...6 percent interest for 30 years so i guess i paid $45,000 before the mortgage was paid off..we are still here !
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If members spend less time on stamps in the summer, that's hopefully a good thing! For all the benefits of stamp collecting, there can be one definite disadvantage: Stamp collectors don't move about very much when they're working on their collections. We sit on our backsides, with occasional quick trips for snacks or bathroom breaks, and perhaps getting up to put away one album or catalogue and get another. And long periods of sitting are just not good for people if they aren't balanced with activity.
My wife is a certified fitness instructor who teaches four classes a week to seniors. She also maintains a web site about fitness. Her latest article, Intensity and Duration of Exercise: Is One more Important than the Other?, is certainly apropos for us stamp collectors.
We're fortunate to live in Vancouver, which has a mild year-round climate, never too cold to be outdoors (although it certainly can be wet and miserable!) and very rarely too warm. Studies have shown that Vancouverites have the highest levels of fitness of any Canadians.
One thing we've noticed since we moved here in 2001 is that we rarely see obese people. That's partly because of a large Asian population, but another reason may be that Vancouverites aren't quite as wedded to the automobile as people elsewhere. Not that we don't have a lot of traffic, especially in the summer with the influx of tourists, but Vancouverites themselves do a lot of walking, jogging, running, cycling, skateboarding, swimming, hiking, paddling, sailing, skiing, snowboarding, and snowshoeing. My wife and I sold our car in 2002, and mostly walk everywhere we need to go. On Sunday we walked almost six miles, partly to see the Pride Parade (my goodness, what a lot of skin we saw!) and partly for the exercise.
Bob
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Normally here in Florida I'm much more busy with my stamps in the summer during our hot and humid months. But this year is an exception. I've been sidetracked with so many other projects that my stamps have languished. I'm hoping to get back into full swing soon.
As to the sitting on the back side that Bob mentioned - YES - I'm constantly fighting that by trying to get in bike rides and other physical activity and now we joined LA fitness to try to build up those wimpy middle aged muscles. I used to lift weights regularly when I was working (I could bench 125 pounds back then!!!), but after I got sick I got out of shape. Heck I had to learn how to walk all over again (I had a labyrinthectomy). Now I'm fighting the battle of the bulge with all the artillery I can muster! Aren't we all? LOL
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Summer here in the UK can be kind of hit and miss, so with me just starting out with the hobby I am probably devoting quite a bit of time to it just now.
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Hey Teresa,
Love to see your positive outlook on things. My wife and I are working extra hard to keep active. Youre right after a certain age it ain't easy. We were talking the other day, in your 20s, you could skip a couple of meals and be good to go. In your 40s, not so much.
Hey Baz,
do you have to worry about the weather over there and how It affects your stamp collecting? Just kidding. We'll placed sources tell me that it actually DOES NOT rain all the time in the UK!
-Ernie
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I do next to nothing with stamps or coins during the summer. My boys go back to school tomorrow, so I am just now starting to think about stamps and coins again. (I know, it's insane to go back to school before Labor Day, but they are crazy here). Even so, it's still waterski season until Labor Day, I have a SCUBA training course (Nitrox) planned for later this month and start a tennis league this weekend.
Stamps and coins are only for rainy and/or cold days. Too much to do otherwise!
Lars
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Last Saturday was really a beautiful summer day..we spent it at a large cover and paper show..it was a good show. So i would say i spend about the same amount of time stamping..the year round. How do others say ?
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re: Do you spend less time on stamp collecting during the summer ?
The amount of time I devote to stamp collecting is not governed by the time of year. Sometimes I feel I need a break, and I take one. Other times I am deeply involved in studying and acquiring. All according to whichever activity suits me (and my wallet).
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re: Do you spend less time on stamp collecting during the summer ?
No.......I spend much more time during the summer on stamps.
Summer hell in Phoenix Arizona is kind of like winter in northern Minnesota and at times can be very extreme, I stay indoors if possible. when it is 105 F and over,except when that nasty thing called work requires me to be outside and stamps fit the bill nicely. It's even too hot to hang out in the pool and drink cold ones when the sun is blasting away. Now after the sun goes down, the pool and the cold ones are just what the doctor ordered.
I do at times in the winter drag a few albums outside and spend a few hours on the patio though.
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During the summer I don't spend nice daylight hours on my hobbies. There's too much to do outdoors, in the pool and working on the gardens. I do work on hobbies in the evenings, especially once my wife has tuned into "Prancing With The Stars" or those bachelor show, or anything Kardashian! That's my cue to find something interesting to do.
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Ok, good input !!!
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Yes much less.
The summer months are great to snap up auction lots.
Like Thomas when my wife tunes in to TV shows like 'Say yes to the dress', 'Long Island medium', 'Newly weds' and so on, it means evening stamping time for me too.
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Arno, You have to enjoy the "summer" weather while you can..we were in The Netherlands in April, i finlally got to see the tulip fields in bloom..but after hearing how the winters are milder than ours i was surprised how cold and blustery it was .
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Yes I definitely spend less time over the summer working on my collection.
With the sun shining and the beach a short walk away for me I put my collection away at the start of the summer and rarely go back there until the rains come in December.
An added problem in August is the heat and humidity makes my hands and forearms sweaty and damages the album pages.
I should point out that I live on the Costa Del Sol where the summer tends to be guaranteed sun from June to December.
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"Like Thomas when my wife tunes in to TV shows like 'Say yes to the dress', 'Long Island medium', 'Newly weds' and so on, it means evening stamping time for me too."
Long Island Medium... I told my wife she looks more like a LARGE to me!
And I guess that means we're exporting all this bad culture to Europe? Man, you all must think we're a nation of idiots.
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I know you're not. I worked and lived a while in Boston (Waltham), one of the best times in my live. Over the years I have had many positive experiences with Americans. (In Boston I gained 20 pounds however, the price to pay for the good life )
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re: Do you spend less time on stamp collecting during the summer ?
I spend the summer afternoons with my stamps. It's way too hot to be enjoyable down here in SE Florida. The mornings I go to work. The two days off are spent on the house in the morning and then stamps in the evening, while my husband tunes into H2, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Car Auctions, BBC America, Walking Dead, and during the day SOCCER! We however do enjoy watching NASCAR, F1 and open wheel races together. Usually I have some stamps that need to be sorting!
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" and during the day SOCCER!"
Being retired, I don't find any difference due to the seasons, except as it relates to weather. In winter, we tend to travel more, so less "stamping" in winter for me.
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I buy all year but do most of my sorting and mounting after the baseball season ends.
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i can relate to all...being retired and content in the Hudson Valley..where it seems to be either hot or cold...the stamps,catalogs and computer are never far away. I do not spend extended periods with the stamps..just little mini vacations a few times a day !
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Good discussion. Interesting to note, the traffic on our web server goes up significantly during the northern hemisphere summer.
Regards ... Tim
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Just one more small cover ? You are too humble !
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I work on my stamps almost constantly year round except when I try to spend a little time with my wife while she watches reality shows--in particular "Say Yes to the Dress" and will they "Love it or List it. I watch until I just want to scream "Buy the dress and go home and if you are going to spend that much on a dress your fiance is crazy to marry you. My daughter got married a number of years ago and I told my wife make it nice and don't tell me what it cost. To this day I don't know and don't care but I got two great grandsons and a great son-in-law so who can complain.
Not to get far off topic but were do these young couples on their first job and buying their first house come up with a budget of $650,000? My first house after I got my first job cost $41,000 and I was not sure how I was going to handle the payments and I had a good job.
Back to stamps. I am trying something new this summer. I ordered several lots of stamps from a favorite dealer and I am going to mount them all before I buy anything else. In the past, I would start and get side tracked into something else and never finish the first lots. I was going thru boxes this summer in the basement and finding lots I bought 3 to 4 years ago
I am retired and able to spend as much time as I want on stamps BUT my wife is now also retired and I am not sure how long that will last. So far in the last month she as cleaned every room in the house twice and they weren't dirty to start with. I will go low key and hope she doesn't notice me.
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"I will go low key and hope she doesn't notice me."
Why? Are you afraid that she'll start washing you twice a day?
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"Buy the dress and go home and if you are going to spend that much on a dress your fiance is crazy to marry you."
My daughter is getting married next August so we're fully into dress shopping mode.. not that I go, I just have to hear about it.
"Not to get far off topic but were do these young couples on their first job and buying their first house come up with a budget of $650,000? My first house after I got my first job cost $41,000 and I was not sure how I was going to handle the payments and I had a good job.
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I live in a neighborhood in that price range, but like you my first house was $48,000 and it took me three houses to get to the house I now own. At our last HOA Christmas party there was a group of young couples who had recently bought into the neighborhood... the houses were built in the mid 1990s and many of the original owners remain, but their kids are about the age of these couples who could afford $600,000. So when we see them walking around the neighborhood, we've all assumed they were someone's kids! Part of what makes housing affordable today is very low interest rates. Some of these kids bought into this neighborhood around 3%. A far cry from buying my $48,000 house at 15% interest!
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I paid $14,200 for our 4 bedroom Cape Cod in 1967...6 percent interest for 30 years so i guess i paid $45,000 before the mortgage was paid off..we are still here !
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If members spend less time on stamps in the summer, that's hopefully a good thing! For all the benefits of stamp collecting, there can be one definite disadvantage: Stamp collectors don't move about very much when they're working on their collections. We sit on our backsides, with occasional quick trips for snacks or bathroom breaks, and perhaps getting up to put away one album or catalogue and get another. And long periods of sitting are just not good for people if they aren't balanced with activity.
My wife is a certified fitness instructor who teaches four classes a week to seniors. She also maintains a web site about fitness. Her latest article, Intensity and Duration of Exercise: Is One more Important than the Other?, is certainly apropos for us stamp collectors.
We're fortunate to live in Vancouver, which has a mild year-round climate, never too cold to be outdoors (although it certainly can be wet and miserable!) and very rarely too warm. Studies have shown that Vancouverites have the highest levels of fitness of any Canadians.
One thing we've noticed since we moved here in 2001 is that we rarely see obese people. That's partly because of a large Asian population, but another reason may be that Vancouverites aren't quite as wedded to the automobile as people elsewhere. Not that we don't have a lot of traffic, especially in the summer with the influx of tourists, but Vancouverites themselves do a lot of walking, jogging, running, cycling, skateboarding, swimming, hiking, paddling, sailing, skiing, snowboarding, and snowshoeing. My wife and I sold our car in 2002, and mostly walk everywhere we need to go. On Sunday we walked almost six miles, partly to see the Pride Parade (my goodness, what a lot of skin we saw!) and partly for the exercise.
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Normally here in Florida I'm much more busy with my stamps in the summer during our hot and humid months. But this year is an exception. I've been sidetracked with so many other projects that my stamps have languished. I'm hoping to get back into full swing soon.
As to the sitting on the back side that Bob mentioned - YES - I'm constantly fighting that by trying to get in bike rides and other physical activity and now we joined LA fitness to try to build up those wimpy middle aged muscles. I used to lift weights regularly when I was working (I could bench 125 pounds back then!!!), but after I got sick I got out of shape. Heck I had to learn how to walk all over again (I had a labyrinthectomy). Now I'm fighting the battle of the bulge with all the artillery I can muster! Aren't we all? LOL
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Summer here in the UK can be kind of hit and miss, so with me just starting out with the hobby I am probably devoting quite a bit of time to it just now.
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Hey Teresa,
Love to see your positive outlook on things. My wife and I are working extra hard to keep active. Youre right after a certain age it ain't easy. We were talking the other day, in your 20s, you could skip a couple of meals and be good to go. In your 40s, not so much.
Hey Baz,
do you have to worry about the weather over there and how It affects your stamp collecting? Just kidding. We'll placed sources tell me that it actually DOES NOT rain all the time in the UK!
-Ernie
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I do next to nothing with stamps or coins during the summer. My boys go back to school tomorrow, so I am just now starting to think about stamps and coins again. (I know, it's insane to go back to school before Labor Day, but they are crazy here). Even so, it's still waterski season until Labor Day, I have a SCUBA training course (Nitrox) planned for later this month and start a tennis league this weekend.
Stamps and coins are only for rainy and/or cold days. Too much to do otherwise!
Lars
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