Hoping to maybe kick a little life into the stamp collecting forum... if anyone still cares or is "listening!"
Let's start with the basics: What do you collect? Specific areas, or thematics... or general worldwide? Any specialised collections? When did you get started?
To kick it off-- I was introduced to stamp collecting when I was 5 years old, by my dad who worked at a firm that did a lot of international trading, so he brought home colourful stamps as a way to teach me about global geography, culture and history. So far, the hobby has "stuck" for 50 years!
I collect Scandinavia and the broader "Nordic" countries, also have a general France collection. Had a specialized Denmark collection for many years, but am in the process of selling it to pay for some unexpected expenses... grateful that stamps DO represent a "store of value." Still an early Swedish postmark collection. Also have small collection of "cats on stamps" and stamps postmarked on my birthday (any year).
~Peter