Getting Started with Stamp Collecting - page 4

for pre-teens

Sooner or later, you will want to keep your stamps in an album that doesn't require hinges. Ask at your friendly stamp shop for advice on albums that hold and display your stamps without using hinges. They might be a bit expensive, so be prepared to mow a few lawns or shovel some driveways to be able to buy one.

Although not strictly necessary, you can buy tweezers for easy handling of your stamps. These are not expensive and will help keep grubby chocolate fingerprints off your stamps. By the way, be sure to wash your hands before doing things with your stamps. Once a stamp gets dirty, it is sometimes hard to clean it. And if someone else offers to show you their stamps, it would be very rude to handle them with dirty paws!

What else do you need? Well, actually - nothing!! Put some stamps into an album and you are now a stamp collector. Congratulations!! A final word about equipment. You do not have to have any of the fancy things to enjoy your hobby! The important thing is to have fun learning, then later on see if you want to get more serious about it.

If you feel like you are having fun now, maybe you should read what the "teens" are learning about getting started. Lots of what they are learning, you already know, but there is more too. Go back to the Main Page and have a look - but you don't have to.

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