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It's that clean living Phil!!!!
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A few months ago I lost a glassine with two early 20th Century US commemoratives in it! A $25 purchase on the 'bay. I opened the mail at my computer, and put it aside. Lord knows where it went from there. I did dump my paper recycling box and went through it item by item. So It's somewhere in my papers and should show up someday when least expected.
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That is why I buy a threefold set of those cheap readers,
sure, they break easily and sometimes get in the way but
at least when I have six working readers sprinkled around
the desk and stamp table, I can find something to help me
where the prescription bifocals are hiding.
Recently, a month or two ago at least, I won a neat set
of Danish stamps which arrived on an afternoon when I was
not feeling all that great. When they arrived, I slit the
several envelopes that had arrived that day with my trusty
Ka-Bar, and the bomb proof packing, glanced at them. From
there it is a medically induced haze. A few days later,
(Could it be a week ?), I awoke from a deep afternoon power
nap and could see the #104 card in my mind's eye with the
six or seven stamps neatly arrayed. I began a fumbling,
mumbling search. No luck and I began to doubt my memory,
again.
Two or three times that week I looked through the assembled
chaos on my desk in the stamp room even opening the Danmark
album as I had begun doubting such stamps existed. Sure enough,
brother Minkus had the spaces on an otherwise complete page.
Perhaps I had not actually won the lot as I did not find an
invoice, but then, I seldom save the invoices beyond using
the blank side for notes. Still that nagging recollection
annoyed me frequently.
An indistinct period of time passed and suddenly one evening
they fell out of the binding of a small black stock book of
Carribean stamps that I must have thought was a safe place.
to set them.
The lesson might be do not open philatelic mail while fighting
off a bout of Bronchitis. Or, another possibility, don't get
old, although that might have some unintended, unwelcome
consequences as well.
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Its like did i forget to take my meds or did i take a double dose?..i am getting close to being my father. The unclutter book says "put it right back where it belongs". Easy for them to say.
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I tore open the packet, removed the single-wrap tea bag, and tossed the packet.
The water boiled, I turned around, and I went looking for the tea bag.
Not in the garbage, not in the sink, not in the silverware drawer, not on the stove, not on the floor ... round'n'round I went until I found the tea bag, in the tea cup.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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Charlie I do the same thing with the cheap reader glasses. They are all over the house. I have a pair in my car, I had a pair in my desk at work when I worked in an office. Just so I'd always have some nearby.
Whenever I get the gumption to clean a room I always find a few pairs of glasses hiding in the stacks.
A few weeks ago I was weeding out in the garden... I found these! I vaguely remember losing a pair of glasses a few years ago when working in the yard. These are good prescription ones.
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About 3 years ago on a cold winters Sunday,Bob Gioia,Jopie and i went to a stamp show in New Jersey. There was not much i was interested in..but i purchased this set of maps from the Netherlands Antilles for 5 bucks. Five bucks and for 3 years i was fretting over what happened to the set after i returned home..its not the money...its just i hate to misplace things forever. Yesterday we stopped a Church yard sale and they were close to closing...so they were selling books for a dollar a bag. My wife had a few mystery novels so i threw "the office clutter cure" in the bag. Today i was sorting correspondence going back to 1988 and throwing 2/3 of them away..and there before my eyes was my Netherlands Antilles set ! So now to date i have never lost anything philatelic FOREVER !
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It's that clean living Phil!!!!
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A few months ago I lost a glassine with two early 20th Century US commemoratives in it! A $25 purchase on the 'bay. I opened the mail at my computer, and put it aside. Lord knows where it went from there. I did dump my paper recycling box and went through it item by item. So It's somewhere in my papers and should show up someday when least expected.
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
19 Sep 2019
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That is why I buy a threefold set of those cheap readers,
sure, they break easily and sometimes get in the way but
at least when I have six working readers sprinkled around
the desk and stamp table, I can find something to help me
where the prescription bifocals are hiding.
Recently, a month or two ago at least, I won a neat set
of Danish stamps which arrived on an afternoon when I was
not feeling all that great. When they arrived, I slit the
several envelopes that had arrived that day with my trusty
Ka-Bar, and the bomb proof packing, glanced at them. From
there it is a medically induced haze. A few days later,
(Could it be a week ?), I awoke from a deep afternoon power
nap and could see the #104 card in my mind's eye with the
six or seven stamps neatly arrayed. I began a fumbling,
mumbling search. No luck and I began to doubt my memory,
again.
Two or three times that week I looked through the assembled
chaos on my desk in the stamp room even opening the Danmark
album as I had begun doubting such stamps existed. Sure enough,
brother Minkus had the spaces on an otherwise complete page.
Perhaps I had not actually won the lot as I did not find an
invoice, but then, I seldom save the invoices beyond using
the blank side for notes. Still that nagging recollection
annoyed me frequently.
An indistinct period of time passed and suddenly one evening
they fell out of the binding of a small black stock book of
Carribean stamps that I must have thought was a safe place.
to set them.
The lesson might be do not open philatelic mail while fighting
off a bout of Bronchitis. Or, another possibility, don't get
old, although that might have some unintended, unwelcome
consequences as well.
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Its like did i forget to take my meds or did i take a double dose?..i am getting close to being my father. The unclutter book says "put it right back where it belongs". Easy for them to say.
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I tore open the packet, removed the single-wrap tea bag, and tossed the packet.
The water boiled, I turned around, and I went looking for the tea bag.
Not in the garbage, not in the sink, not in the silverware drawer, not on the stove, not on the floor ... round'n'round I went until I found the tea bag, in the tea cup.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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Charlie I do the same thing with the cheap reader glasses. They are all over the house. I have a pair in my car, I had a pair in my desk at work when I worked in an office. Just so I'd always have some nearby.
Whenever I get the gumption to clean a room I always find a few pairs of glasses hiding in the stacks.
A few weeks ago I was weeding out in the garden... I found these! I vaguely remember losing a pair of glasses a few years ago when working in the yard. These are good prescription ones.
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