A few months ago I started collecting all US issues from 1973 to present. I had
already obtained the inexpensive US up to that date in a National Hingless and a regular
green Scott National (for used stamps). I also decided to put each stamp into
a spread sheet by Scott number and price. (Yes, I know, true value probably one fifth
of catalog value but I'm retired with nothing else to do.) Kinda fun. Many stamps I had
never seen. I picked up a few at face at shows and have ordered a few from the Fulfilment Center. Had to dig around in Linn's (old name Scotts Stamp Journal) to get the cat. number so I appreciate the listing of 2016 numbers here on the board.
I'm using stock pages to house them but need to spend time and get them in order. My spread sheet is a good "check off" tool to see what I'm missing.
I don't particularly care for the designs of US stamps. Much prefer Scandinavia, French Col. and a few other countries but lots of sources for our stamps so decided to give it a
try. Hard to beat an old single color engraved stamp.