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What stamp projects are at the top of your fall list? Me - well I need to catch up on correspondence and ready some approvals and ship off some charity donations. Our local club will have a show in a few months too.
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I work on stamps pretty much year-round. Summer is best in Texas due to the heat. Winter is a good time to be outdoors here, because you can go outside without turning into a loaf of baked bread.
For me, the fall is model railroad season. The shows start up. First one is in a couple of weeks, and then at least one a month (within decent driving range) through January. My attention does get diverted to the train shows as I am involved in at least one a year. The local Austin show is probably dead as a result of poor planning, no preparation and the 12-man committee expecting me to do 99% of the work.
As for stamps, I am breaking down my old approval books, and hope to put up a bunch of new ones. When is the unknown right now.
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Good question! I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I have a bunch more consignments I need to get posted in my store, and I keep on wanting to get to work preparing a Stamp Collecting Merit Badge program for local Scouts, but inevitably I'll probably just continue working 60+ hours a week and not getting hardly anything done. 
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I'm getting ready for a few more approvals and getting ready for Ericka to totally miss my area of Florida! So a bit of prep in the yard to be baked like that loaf of bread and then checking out the shutters.
I'm even going to the library today to get a couple of books so when we loose electricity I'll be able to stamp and then read for a while.
But, going through all the albums and books looking for more approvals is my main project.
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My big project is and has been, in addition to looking for a new job, updating my catalog values from 2012 to 2015 Scott and doing a total comparison between what I have in my albums vs what I show in the inventory. Lots of corrections I have needed to make and much pain 
in dropping values.
Like Michael, I work on my collection year round. I am more of an inside person anyway. My wife has to get me out to get exercise, and that is why I wear a Michelin Radial X around my middle.
And as I live in Orlando, I am also tracking Erika. Theresa, you might be in for a little ride there in PSL (Port St. Lucie, for everyone else).
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Fall is the start of stamp shows for me. I have tables at three so far -September, October and November. Now I have to integrate all of the new material I put up this summer into the show stock. Hard to sell or trade if no one can find it.
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I have done stamp shows in the past, but around here they seem to schedule the stamp shows on the same dates as the trains shows. I make alot more money selling model trains in two days than I do selling stamps. Still, I wouldn't mind doing stamp shows again.
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This time of year always seems to see many of us returning to our albums after the kids go back to school, the days shorten and the leaves begin to turn. Even though I live in Florida, and it is just the end of August, I'm starting to get the itch to dig in again. When I lived up north, the colder the weather, the better the stamping! So, hi ho! It's to the stamp dens we go!
What stamp projects are at the top of your fall list? Me - well I need to catch up on correspondence and ready some approvals and ship off some charity donations. Our local club will have a show in a few months too.
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12:37:21am
re: The start of the fall stamp season approaches! Yay!
I work on stamps pretty much year-round. Summer is best in Texas due to the heat. Winter is a good time to be outdoors here, because you can go outside without turning into a loaf of baked bread.
For me, the fall is model railroad season. The shows start up. First one is in a couple of weeks, and then at least one a month (within decent driving range) through January. My attention does get diverted to the train shows as I am involved in at least one a year. The local Austin show is probably dead as a result of poor planning, no preparation and the 12-man committee expecting me to do 99% of the work.
As for stamps, I am breaking down my old approval books, and hope to put up a bunch of new ones. When is the unknown right now.
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re: The start of the fall stamp season approaches! Yay!
Good question! I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I have a bunch more consignments I need to get posted in my store, and I keep on wanting to get to work preparing a Stamp Collecting Merit Badge program for local Scouts, but inevitably I'll probably just continue working 60+ hours a week and not getting hardly anything done.
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re: The start of the fall stamp season approaches! Yay!
I'm getting ready for a few more approvals and getting ready for Ericka to totally miss my area of Florida! So a bit of prep in the yard to be baked like that loaf of bread and then checking out the shutters.
I'm even going to the library today to get a couple of books so when we loose electricity I'll be able to stamp and then read for a while.
But, going through all the albums and books looking for more approvals is my main project.
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re: The start of the fall stamp season approaches! Yay!
My big project is and has been, in addition to looking for a new job, updating my catalog values from 2012 to 2015 Scott and doing a total comparison between what I have in my albums vs what I show in the inventory. Lots of corrections I have needed to make and much pain in dropping values.
Like Michael, I work on my collection year round. I am more of an inside person anyway. My wife has to get me out to get exercise, and that is why I wear a Michelin Radial X around my middle.
And as I live in Orlando, I am also tracking Erika. Theresa, you might be in for a little ride there in PSL (Port St. Lucie, for everyone else).
BOB
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re: The start of the fall stamp season approaches! Yay!
Fall is the start of stamp shows for me. I have tables at three so far -September, October and November. Now I have to integrate all of the new material I put up this summer into the show stock. Hard to sell or trade if no one can find it.
Jack
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re: The start of the fall stamp season approaches! Yay!
I have done stamp shows in the past, but around here they seem to schedule the stamp shows on the same dates as the trains shows. I make alot more money selling model trains in two days than I do selling stamps. Still, I wouldn't mind doing stamp shows again.
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