Okay...most people who know us know that our family enjoys Star Wars. We don't dress up and go to conventions together or anything, but we enjoy the movies, and our boys have been known to pretend they are Jedi for hours on end. I will admit that I have a soft spot for Star Wars since one of my earliest memories is going to my first movie in a theatre at the tender age of four (just thirty years ago). That movie was Star Wars.When I saw the signs up at the post office advertising Star Wars stamps I thought it would be pretty fun to get a set. I thought the boys would enjoy seeing them, and I thought that they would lend some personality to any letters I wanted to mail. That's right...I actually use stamps for postage! Some people collect stamps...I use them to mail letters.
I will admit that there have been occasions when I got some pretty cool stamps at the post office, like the DC superheroes set that came out about a year and a half ago. I enjoyed looking at them, and then I used them all up. (You can take comfort in knowing that you can actually still get these DC hero stamps online from the USPS-they were that unpopular.)
I went to the post office this morning and bought my stamps. I got there early because we live in a small town, and I knew our post office probably wouldn't get a lot of sets of the stamps. Even though I got there about 12 minutes after the post office had opened, they had already sold at least 20 sets of the stamps. The postal clerk said that there were people lined up when they opened the post office. I was a little surprised they were going so quickly and glad I didn't wait until the afternoon to come in and get stamps.
I expected the Star Wars stamps to be in a regular book of 20 stamps. Instead what I found when I went to the post office this morning, is that they come in a sheet of 15 stamps that looks like a collage poster. The sheet has no convenient place to fold it in half for storage, and to be honest the stamps look so nice to me, that I am a little afraid to use them. Looking at it, I can almost hear it begging to be matted and framed. The reverse side of the sheet has descriptions of the characters or ships depicted and their role in the Star Wars Saga. I had planned to buy two sets of the stamps. One for using, and one to possibly save. Since there were only 15 stamps per set, I went ahead and bought three sets since I really did need to get some stamps. The postal clerk seemed surprised when I said I planned to actually use some of them for postage.
So do you have anything you collect? Are you a secret hoarder of Hot wheel cars, tiny little spoons, stamps, various parts of your children (Umbilical cords, teeth, hair? I recently found a couple of baggies that had hair from first haircuts of my boys...but I had no idea whose hair was whose...so I tossed them. That topic could be a whole blog in itself.), beer steins, trains, hubcaps? Give it up...I would love to know!
4 comments:
I guess I collect family heirlooms.
I love the comic book stamps. I kept thinking ,"I should save these." But I didn't. I saw the Star Wars ones and hope they last awhile or come out in a reissue, cause i think the local ones are all gone already.
Canadian stamps are so boring. =P
Our family are big Star Wars fans as well. We don't go to the theatre often, but for Star Wars we sure did.
As far as collecting though? I collect Boyd's Bears figurines. I just love the look of old fashioned teddy bears in a kid's bedroom.
We're excited to get some Star Wars stamps. My kids love 'Dark Vader'. Hee Hee. They haven't actually seen the movie (we did have a girl first) but I am thinking of getting the set for Hubby for Fathers Day. He's been telling them Star Wars stories almost every night. It's pretty cute. (We found an old book of mine from a long time ago...DH was pretty jealous that I had that book growing up and he didn't...) Anyway...I, I mean Jordan, collects the diecast Cars from the movie Cars. We have a million. They are everywhere. I love it. He almost always has one in each hand. And I have hair too, but I can easily tell which hair belongs to which child. Wink. Anyway...I'm back to the blogosphere. Thanks for sticking with me. I'll send you an email soon. Hugs ~ Syd
I have to say that I'm really glad my girls aren't into Star Wars. I never saw the attraction and I only saw Return of the Jedi in the theaters before the other 2 originals were rereleased years later. I don't even know what happens in the last 3 movies.
I'm going to run and hide now so all you Star Wars junkies can't throw tomatoes at me. :)
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