What stamp project have you most procrastinated finishing?

I actually cleaned up or am in the process of cleaning up several "piles o' things", but making maps to go with my burgeoning collection of postmarks is not one of them. I have .jpg map blanks that I can disassemble into parts and enlarge, but placing the towns on the grid is really gonna be a lot of work. The .jpg blanks are just that: blank. No towns, no geographical landmarks, just borders as far as the eye can see.

I have some road maps from other countries, but erasing the roads would really be a painful experience, and leaving them on would be horrible. The idea of using quadrille paper as a base and overlaying the map sectors on that kind of struck me today. But I've honestly never seen quadrille paper that's designed for printers - it's usually oversized, too - so I might have to make my own grid and make it the background layer in Paint Shop Pro or Affinity Photo (which I'm just barely learning; PSP is fine, but the company that owns them - Corel - is a real pain about nagging you to get upgrades, and I don't like them), and then stack the other layer(s) on that. (That's an awful sentence!! Fake en-dashes within a parenthetical expression?)

So that's it. I really want to make some groovy postmark albums, because I would like them and maybe I could get some Serious Philatelist™ street cred as a bonus, but I can't seem to muster the energy it would take.

I need to do an inventory. I don't have as many stamps as many of you, it is not totally unmanageable.  And I've started several times,  but I can't seem to stay on track. I know so many good reasons to have an inventory, but I just cannot stay focused on it.

I have been working off and on my custom Machin pages. I am now slowing cross-checking issues and hope to have finished the pages by next month. The question is where do you draw the line if you collect beyond SG Concise or Scott. Anything beyond that can be a bottomless pit.

Don’t worry. I started out that way.  One thing that helped me was watching a lot of YouTube videos on stamp collecting. Also becoming a member of APS and RPSC.  I watch their learning videos and attend their webinars occasionally. For Canada stamps I actually sat down and read and reread the introduction to the Unitrade catalogue, which is full of a lot of useful information. 

The areas I’ve procrastinated on are figuring out my small queens and the Centennial issues. I’m almost set to do the Centennial issues. Waiting for the arrival of a dual wave UV light. 

What countries to let go of..... I have known (or realized ) that with the way I have approached the few countires I have thus far started creating pages and mounting stamps that i will not get to many of countries that  are as far as Varios (with some envelopes of "to be sorted" inside them.

And it's not just stamps- I have way more musical instruments and recording gear that I either seldom use or some that haven't nbeen touched since pre-pandemic.


I guess hoarding is more fun!

Three contenders here:

1) Assembling an exhibit.

2) Annotating more thoroughly and helpfully.

3) Organizing my duplicates so I can start selling.

Terri (philatelia), many thanks for starting this thread.  You seem to have a knack for authoring new threads on thought-provoking subjects on which any collector can respond and offer his/her two-cents worth.

I have been enjoying reading everyone's contributions so far.  While I do indeed have many stamp projects that need doing, with me, it usually comes down to indecision on how to do it that holds me back from getting it done, more than procrastination.  So, I will leave those projects involving my actual stamps out of this discussion.

My real procrastination has been on a TSF-related project.  Before I became more seriously involved with Cape Triangles, I had always wanted to set up a resource thread on the Forum for stamps with fugitive inks.  It has long been an area of interest for me, and I have not found a whole lot online in terms of organized resources.  So, I have been wanting to launch that effort here.

Several months ago, I started to prepare the posts, but they are languishing, about 80% done but not posted in the public part of the Forum.  All right, I am going to offer this public admission of my procrastination as the kick in the pants that I need to get the project across the finish line.

I will get it done and posted sometime before the end of the year.

Thanks again, Terri, for providing this nudge to remind me that I need to get this done.  It will happen.

OK, I am nearly 3 weeks late in doing this, but I have finally moved my thread on Fugitive Inks onto the public boards of TSF.  The time seems right since other recent posts have touched on this subject.

At least I can tick this action item off my to-do list!