Figured I would share an interesting article I ran across about Stamp collecting written by Ross Taylor:
Collecting stamps (philately)
In this article, he lists 19 good reasons that we collect stamps (some of them can also be applied to other collectibles as well)
- They are aesthetically pleasing
- They are miniature works of art
- Desire to complete and arrange a set or collection
- National pride, we tend to collect stamps from our own country
- They have historical value, they show our Kings and Queens (or presidents)
- Intellectual stimulation
- Nostalgia, the good old days, memories of when I was young
- Hoarding and sorting instinct
- Sorting stamps to find a valuable one
- They might become valuable one day
- To avoid the wife
- Your Grandad gave you his collection
- I want to be the world expert on the 1d red
- To gloat over my collection
- You enjoy stamps - you have the stamp 'bug'
- You have an attention to detail
- To spend some time during a winter's evening
- You want to do philatelic research
- A financial investment