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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

 

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vincy4fish98

16 Mar 2013
10:08:52pm
I know we all work with our stamp collections for relaxation and when time allows. Just wanted to get a sense of how much time other members spend in hours or days during the week that they are working with their collection(s) in one fashion or another. I spend about an hour if I am lucky on a Friday or Saturday evening. I could be mounting or hinging a stamp, soaking some new acquisitions, or just researching a stamp.

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17 Mar 2013
12:17:11am
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I'll average 4 to 6 hours a day.

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17 Mar 2013
01:19:06am
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Vince:

Don't measure, don't weigh, don't count and don't time; just enjoy.

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vincy4fish98

17 Mar 2013
09:43:39am
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Michael, I am envious. Wish I had that time at the moment. I am sure even that goes by quickly. John, I love your answer and I agree. It is a very philosophical and zen answer. To each their own and according to their own circumstance.

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17 Mar 2013
12:48:25pm
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Yes, it does go by quickly. I don't work on my stamps every day, but there are days when I am working on the 12 hours, so that's why I gave an average. I do work on my stamps most days, though. I also spend hours working on my model railroad layout. I got the extra time to do all this after I retired, but the days go by just as quickly. The difference is that now that I don't work, I am truly exercising my pursuit of happiness!

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NBStamper

25 Mar 2013
08:31:47pm
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Time doesn't matter much; I find it relaxing and it takes my mind off any problems buzzing around. I try to keep as much new material on hand to keep me busy whenever I have time for the hobby. Maybe, on average, 2-3 hours a day.

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Martyn
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26 Mar 2013
04:16:44am
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

for me it's about 3-4 hours on average, although sometimes nothing for a couple of days. Sometimes when I get stuck trying to identify one of the Guyana overprints I could be at it for 6-7 hours and then get a headache and ask myself why I bother collecting them at all (Guyana that is)

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Mike

26 Mar 2013
10:05:41am
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I'm sure I spend way too much time on stamps, but unfortunately most of it is not on my collection, but on preparing auction lots and everything involved in that. Of course, in preparing those lots I keep an eye on my want lists for stamps that I need, but then they usually get stacked up in a cigar box for later insertion into the albums.

Dryer's philosophy is by far the best. If you have to worry about the time you spend on stamps you are taking away from your relaxation, so just enjoy the time you do spend on your hobby or hobbies. Or as they say down in the islands, "Don't Worry, Be Happy!"

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27 Mar 2013
01:13:28pm
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

How much time on my stamp hobby ???
Too many hours to worry about counting.
Between playing with stamps owned, checking three o four webpages two of which I am co-administrator, bidding, paying invoices and writing letters and e-mails to collector correspondents, it is a good thing that I am over 55 in Justice Kagan's sense.
The real question should be how much time is left?

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20 Jul 2013
08:39:06am

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over the course of a year i guess it averages out to 15 bucks a week...what my wife spends..no one keeps score !

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20 Jul 2013
08:41:13am

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i should learn to read...i thought it was how much do i spend....time ? i look at stamps every day..and quite a bit of time browsing the net looking for more !!!

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20 Jul 2013
11:00:47am
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Since I only got back into the hobby in 2011, I am still trying to complete putting the WW classical accumulation- mostly from Scott International 1840-1940 albums (Big Blue's)- into my main Steiner pages.

I put in New Zealand yesterday, and Nicaraugua is next.

A long roundabout way to say I spend hours / day with stamps.

Fortunately I recently retired. ;-)

Then there is the stamp blog which requires weekly effort.

It's like a job except I can't wait to get started the next day. ;-)

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20 Jul 2013
07:24:07pm
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

For just the enjoyment about 6 hours a week, for Stamporama business purposes about 5 hours a week. I look at my collection nearly every day to see what I ned to do to improve it's display qualities.

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20 Jul 2013
08:26:03pm
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I spend about 1/2 per day (roughly) in the summer, and about an hour per day in the winter.

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20 Jul 2013
10:26:26pm
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I usually spend around 10 hours per week.. A little more in the winter months.

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cocollectibles

21 Jul 2013
06:11:51am
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I can't wait to retire and spend time on my stamps, badly in need of cataloguing and presentation. Although semi-retired for the past few years, I just can't find the time to do this with good concentration and energy yet. So now, I would say, for my own collection (vs. items I'm selling from my collections), I spend less than an hour a month of real focused time. Sad

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21 Jul 2013
11:12:15pm
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I spend about an hour to 90 minutes per day on my collections - stamps and coins. That includes searching for auctions, buying, selling (rarely), communications like this, research (reading reference materials), and actually working with the actual collections (making pages, mounting stamps, and so forth) I also keep a fairly current record of both my stamp collection and coin collection online, so that time is included as well.

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22 Jul 2013
02:41:54am
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I'd hate to have to admit how many actual hours I spend on the hobby, between the albums, the auctions, and the philatelic conversations. But with the computer set up in the stamp room next to my stamp desk it is easy to swing between one and the other. In fact I sometimes fall asleep in the wheelchair at the computer and when I awake I find several dozens of lines that my fingers have rested on like this;

"....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaa....." ad infinitum.

This may go on for several pages but you get the idea.
Charlie

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22 Jul 2013
09:00:13am
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Not Enough

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snowy12
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23 Jul 2013
03:51:18am

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Too much,so my wife tells me

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23 Jul 2013
11:46:50am
re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

On the other hand, Snowy, at least my wife knows where I am
and usually what I am doing peering through a microscope,
swearing at hinges that escape their destiny and
dozing at the computer keyboard.

And considering the things I used to do before marriage
and before stamps,
that is a good thing,
a very good thing.

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vincy4fish98

16 Mar 2013
10:08:52pm

I know we all work with our stamp collections for relaxation and when time allows. Just wanted to get a sense of how much time other members spend in hours or days during the week that they are working with their collection(s) in one fashion or another. I spend about an hour if I am lucky on a Friday or Saturday evening. I could be mounting or hinging a stamp, soaking some new acquisitions, or just researching a stamp.

Vince

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michael78651

17 Mar 2013
12:17:11am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I'll average 4 to 6 hours a day.

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17 Mar 2013
01:19:06am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Vince:

Don't measure, don't weigh, don't count and don't time; just enjoy.

John Derry

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vincy4fish98

17 Mar 2013
09:43:39am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Michael, I am envious. Wish I had that time at the moment. I am sure even that goes by quickly. John, I love your answer and I agree. It is a very philosophical and zen answer. To each their own and according to their own circumstance.

Vince

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michael78651

17 Mar 2013
12:48:25pm

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Yes, it does go by quickly. I don't work on my stamps every day, but there are days when I am working on the 12 hours, so that's why I gave an average. I do work on my stamps most days, though. I also spend hours working on my model railroad layout. I got the extra time to do all this after I retired, but the days go by just as quickly. The difference is that now that I don't work, I am truly exercising my pursuit of happiness!

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NBStamper

25 Mar 2013
08:31:47pm

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Time doesn't matter much; I find it relaxing and it takes my mind off any problems buzzing around. I try to keep as much new material on hand to keep me busy whenever I have time for the hobby. Maybe, on average, 2-3 hours a day.

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Martyn

26 Mar 2013
04:16:44am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

for me it's about 3-4 hours on average, although sometimes nothing for a couple of days. Sometimes when I get stuck trying to identify one of the Guyana overprints I could be at it for 6-7 hours and then get a headache and ask myself why I bother collecting them at all (Guyana that is)

martyn

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26 Mar 2013
10:05:41am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I'm sure I spend way too much time on stamps, but unfortunately most of it is not on my collection, but on preparing auction lots and everything involved in that. Of course, in preparing those lots I keep an eye on my want lists for stamps that I need, but then they usually get stacked up in a cigar box for later insertion into the albums.

Dryer's philosophy is by far the best. If you have to worry about the time you spend on stamps you are taking away from your relaxation, so just enjoy the time you do spend on your hobby or hobbies. Or as they say down in the islands, "Don't Worry, Be Happy!"

Mike

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27 Mar 2013
01:13:28pm

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

How much time on my stamp hobby ???
Too many hours to worry about counting.
Between playing with stamps owned, checking three o four webpages two of which I am co-administrator, bidding, paying invoices and writing letters and e-mails to collector correspondents, it is a good thing that I am over 55 in Justice Kagan's sense.
The real question should be how much time is left?

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philb

20 Jul 2013
08:39:06am

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re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

over the course of a year i guess it averages out to 15 bucks a week...what my wife spends..no one keeps score !

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philb

20 Jul 2013
08:41:13am

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i should learn to read...i thought it was how much do i spend....time ? i look at stamps every day..and quite a bit of time browsing the net looking for more !!!

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jkjblue

20 Jul 2013
11:00:47am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Since I only got back into the hobby in 2011, I am still trying to complete putting the WW classical accumulation- mostly from Scott International 1840-1940 albums (Big Blue's)- into my main Steiner pages.

I put in New Zealand yesterday, and Nicaraugua is next.

A long roundabout way to say I spend hours / day with stamps.

Fortunately I recently retired. ;-)

Then there is the stamp blog which requires weekly effort.

It's like a job except I can't wait to get started the next day. ;-)

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Keep Postal systems alive, buy stamps and mail often
20 Jul 2013
07:24:07pm

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

For just the enjoyment about 6 hours a week, for Stamporama business purposes about 5 hours a week. I look at my collection nearly every day to see what I ned to do to improve it's display qualities.

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DavidG

APS member since 2004
20 Jul 2013
08:26:03pm

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I spend about 1/2 per day (roughly) in the summer, and about an hour per day in the winter.

David

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bobgggg

President Cortlandt Stamp Club

20 Jul 2013
10:26:26pm

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I usually spend around 10 hours per week.. A little more in the winter months.

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cocollectibles

21 Jul 2013
06:11:51am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I can't wait to retire and spend time on my stamps, badly in need of cataloguing and presentation. Although semi-retired for the past few years, I just can't find the time to do this with good concentration and energy yet. So now, I would say, for my own collection (vs. items I'm selling from my collections), I spend less than an hour a month of real focused time. Sad

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21 Jul 2013
11:12:15pm

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I spend about an hour to 90 minutes per day on my collections - stamps and coins. That includes searching for auctions, buying, selling (rarely), communications like this, research (reading reference materials), and actually working with the actual collections (making pages, mounting stamps, and so forth) I also keep a fairly current record of both my stamp collection and coin collection online, so that time is included as well.

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22 Jul 2013
02:41:54am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

I'd hate to have to admit how many actual hours I spend on the hobby, between the albums, the auctions, and the philatelic conversations. But with the computer set up in the stamp room next to my stamp desk it is easy to swing between one and the other. In fact I sometimes fall asleep in the wheelchair at the computer and when I awake I find several dozens of lines that my fingers have rested on like this;

"....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaa....." ad infinitum.

This may go on for several pages but you get the idea.
Charlie

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tuscany4me

22 Jul 2013
09:00:13am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

Not Enough

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snowy12

23 Jul 2013
03:51:18am

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Too much,so my wife tells me

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23 Jul 2013
11:46:50am

re: How much time do you spend on your stamps each week?

On the other hand, Snowy, at least my wife knows where I am
and usually what I am doing peering through a microscope,
swearing at hinges that escape their destiny and
dozing at the computer keyboard.

And considering the things I used to do before marriage
and before stamps,
that is a good thing,
a very good thing.

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