There’s a sub over on Reddit called r/askastampcollector and the only thing it ever gets used for, virtually always in fact, is people just show up with stamps that they found or inherited or they were given, looking for a big paycheck.
It doesn’t work that way and a lot of them get positively upset when they receive the news that what they have is worthless, but honestly, can we just stop worrying about value when it comes to collectibles? You people are going about it all wrong!
Okay, maybe complain isn’t the right word, but there’s one thing that I’ve noticed in poking around there, the overwhelming majority of videos made about stamp collecting over on YouTube, they all tend to be aimed at, shall we say, the beginners?
So let’s talk about that, please.
Relatively recently, I’ve come back to my first collecting love, stamps and I’ve noticed that every single time I’ve come back to it, and I do this every couple of years, I go looking for the nostalgia of a stamp newspaper of some sort.
Yet there’s really no way to go home again.
Now that I’m back to collecting stamps, and having a great time doing it, naturally, I looked over on YouTube for some channels that might be entertaining to watch. While I did find some, and I know there won’t be a ton, I noticed one thing about the overwhelming majority of them.
They all seem to be aimed at the uninitiated stamp collector.
So, a while back now, I decided I was done with Funko. I’ve made my dissatisfaction with all things Pop known and you can go back and look at those posts if you want, I just realized that I wasn’t having any fun at all chasing exclusives and if you’re not enjoying your hobbies, why engage in them at all?
Therefore, I have one more Pop out there on pre-order, but after I receive it, it’s all getting packed away and I’m moving on. I doubt I’ll sell it, although it does take up a lot of space and I have a lot of money invested, but I don’t tend to sell collectibles that I no longer collect. It’s just not who I am.
So, I went back to doing something that I’ve done since I was a child and you know something? It’s a lot of fun!
