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Two of my three collecting vices

For those of you who haven't been reading this blog for more than one or two years, you may not know that I once collected stamps. Stamps are one of three Very Serious collections in my life. Matchbox cars came first, then stamps, then baseball cards. I've addressed all of this before -- matchboxes, here , and stamps, here . In between there were bottle caps and coins and magazines and stuffed animals and records and rocks on the beach. I've addressed this, too, in something called subliminal collecting . But only Matchbox cars, stamps and baseball cards ever received any kind of dedication, what probably could be called "vices" considering how much time I spent with them. Not long ago, I received a PWE from 2-by-3 Heroes that contained two of those three collecting vices. No, silly, you can't fit a Matchbox car in a PWE. I'm talking about ... STAMPS plus CARDS!!! Stamps are still pretty cool, although I barely think about the...