For me, I don't find it until a few years later, long after I have given up and also forgotten the reason I was looking for it to begin with.
At least once, I found the item "again". In other words, I found the stamp, but it wasn't the exact stamp I was looking for. Apparently, I had forgotten I already bought the stamp, and had bought it again later!
Oh well, the more the merrier!
Then there was the time I found a booklet pane less one stamp. I knew I didn't do that, so I sheepishly asked my wife, and she 'fessed to taking a stamp to mail a letter. She figured I had so many and there were 9 more "identical" stamps in the pane... I didn't bother to try to explain how the number on the selvedge made the intact pane "valuable". You know the only known used copy of the inverted Jenny was used by the wife taking one off his desk to mail a letter! He found it amusing, got the used stamp back, and put it into a locket for his wife.
We just did that, in fact. My wife had a big envelope of Japanese stamps that somehow got misplaced when we moved nearly 6 years ago. I had to go through every single box in the garage to find it and we came across a whole ton of stuff that we've been looking for forever!
Collects U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island & China Member: APS + CSSI + ISJP
For years I just aquired stamps and threw them into boxes, bags, envelopes - anything thing I could christen a storage container. I couldn't settle on an album I wanted to use so stamps were just stuffed everywhere waiting for the day I could afford one of those big fancy-smancy top shelf stamp albums. Then I discovered Steiner's pages and started putting everything in the albums, but now I have all these boxes and whatnots. There are stamps I know I have but have no idea what box/bag/envelope I put them in. Likewise, I'm constantly pulling out a box or envelope with material I have absolutely no idea where they came from or what I was thinking when I sorted them the way I did.
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I didn't bother to try to explain how the number on the selvedge made the intact pane "valuable". You know the only known used copy of the inverted Jenny was used by the wife taking one off his desk to mail a letter! He found it amusing, got the used stamp back, and put it into a locket for his wife.
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