>>On the radio this morning I heard that the Muppet stamps will be released today. There are 11 different stamps in the set.
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>When I was a kid, collecting stamps was very normal (and almost cool to do). Is stamp collecting still normal? I wonder what happend to my stamp collection. I had maybe 10,000 stamps form mostly Europe and the Soviet Union.

I don't think philatelists were ever regarded as cool! Now numismatists! ... :-)

I was into coin collecting. Still got them up in the attic: crinkly coins, aluminium coins, coins with holes through them, Kennedy silver dollars, Buffalo cents, Coronation crowns, Churchill crowns...