Thank you for your thoughtful reply! This definitely deserves to be a @topcomment! One of the thoughts I've held for a while is that since this is a decentralized venue — albeit with certain limitations

We're moving to a smaller place next year, and I aspire to something more minimalistic. We'll see how it goes!

Undoubtedly, there's more to it than that... but it would certainly be nice if the 4-year cycle repeated. Interesting to think that Heidi was once an active poster and influencer here on Hive...

Thank you for the mention, and a very nice showing of stamps following a particular "theme" I appreciate you contributing to the awareness of stamp collecting in the Hive community! It is nice

In general, I have ignored a lot of this back-and-forth shyte in favor of looking at how many "units" (minutes, hours, days, weeks?) of labor/effort I have to put forth to get one "unit"

Subscribed. And thank you for offering up an alternative to LeoFinance/Inleo... that place is just a little too cultish/fanboy-ish for my liking, and I'm sick to death of the eternal round-robin backpatting

Thank you! I think there will always be people in the world who feel a natural inclination to "collect" things, whether they are currently in the culture, or part of our history. In the same

When you take the time to really learn about stamps and their origins, it can become quite a journey of study!

Thank you! It is pretty much a life long interest that I hope to enjoy for many more years!

Thank you!

Yes, it usually ends up making the most sense to just collect the stamps of your home country, since that's where they are the most plentiful. Interestingly enough, I ended up with a lot of Australian

For sure, the "free market" part of capitalism has gotten lost...

The oligarchs pretty much run the Universe... and they will dish us up ever larger portions of their shit, and expect us to be happy!

There's always a sales pitch to the effect that we are "better off" because of all the ostensible "innovations and benefits" being foisted upon us. Just this morning I wasted a good

Clearly, you are actually playing the hand you were dealt, not just complaining about it. My wife is much the same... she has an autoimmune condition that make many things incredibly painful to do... but

MTG certainly has endured over the years! Back when we had our gallery/shop in town, one of my frequent visitors was an artist whom — it turned out — had created the art of a number of cards. He was an

Sometimes RE-discovering an old favorite hobby can be a great pastime. Thanks for your kind words!

Ack! Yes, I know ALL about starting too many things and ending up with chaos!

You're welcome; good luck!

This is a wonderful topic! I was just writing a post about hobbies and came here to get the link to the community to add... and saw that you are doing Postage Stamps for February, so I added that in the