Stamp (compost) Collecting Clubs in Chicago
No commentsBy Marvin Cervantes
People from all walks of life will always find some profitable if not gratifying hobby to engaged with. This is according to the study in the U.S. conducted to some 100 people who were interviewed according to the kind of hobbies they are currently engaged with. Nearly 86.3% responded that they are into collecting, where almost 30% of it were into stamp collecting.
This statistical report goes to show that more and more people are into different hobbies, where stamp collecting is notable gaining a considerable fair share in the market. In fact, in the United States alone, some 20 million Americans are approximately into stamp collecting.
With a great number of stamp collectors, some people have devised a strategy to organize them as well. That is why stamp clubs were born. Most of the states in the U.S. have their own stamp clubs that are situated in their respective cities.
In Chicago, there are some known stamp collecting clubs that can help you with your stamp collecting hobby. The two known Chicago stamp collecting clubs were the Chicago Air Mail Society and the Chicago Philatelic Society. Another group that is involved into stamp collecting is the Collectors Club of Chicago. What is different with this group is that they are not actually petitioning for any members. The group is focused more on promoting the concept of stamp collecting itself.
Anyway, the problem with most stamp collectors, especially the newbies who are not yet affiliated with any of the stamp collecting clubs in the U.S., is that most of them tend to think that stamp collecting clubs are only for the experts. They thought that since they are just still beginners, they seem to not fit with the group.
The point here is that members of stamp collecting clubs were beginners also some time ago, and because they are so much interested with stamp collecting, they feel that talking to people who have the same interests like them would be more gratifying than the hobby itself. That is why they have these stamp collecting clubs.
Hence, if you are in Chicago and if you are a stamp collector, it is better to be a member of a stamp collecting club than anything else. Joining a Chicago stamp collecting club is an added pleasure to this remarkable hobby.
Here is a list of some of the advantages of joining a stamp collecting club:
1. Friendship
Like any clubs, stamp collecting clubs foster new friends. It promotes friendship in a new level of social context, where you do not only get to meet different people but you also get to find people that you know but did not have time to get acquainted with until you have joined the club.
2. Enables you to gain knowledge
The best thing about joining a stamp collecting club is that it lets you learn more things about stamp collecting. Each member in the club tries to contribute new information regarding the different aspects of stamp collecting such as places to get good collectible stamps, tips on how to identify stamps effectively, or some pointers on how to properly “mount” or keep your stamps.
3. Additional activities
Most stamp collecting clubs organize monthly activities for their members. They even conduct some special meetings or seminars regarding the hobby and even invite some well-known people who, like them, are also into stamp collecting.
4. Good trading point
If you are into trading stamps, joining a club is the most profitable way to do it. Stamp collecting clubs conduct trading sessions where members get to trade their stamps with the other members of the club.
Best of all, stamp collecting clubs offer discounted stamps that are really worth collecting.
5. Regular information feeds
Most stamp collecting clubs offer the best for their members. That is why they try to update their members as often as possible about the upcoming activities of the club as well as the future events in as far as stamp collecting is concerned.
All of these things are boiled down to the fact that joining a stamp collecting club can be very beneficial to a budding stamp collectors.
For beginners who thought that they are not appropriate to join the club because of their level of expertise, they do not know that it is that time of their lives as stamp collectors that they have to join some clubs particularly Chicago stamp collecting clubs. It is the best way to gain more knowledge about the hobby, obtain more collectible stamps, and enhance their expertise about stamp collecting.
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The Truth about Flavored Coffee
By Hong Kirby
To the so-called “true blue” coffee aficionados, flavored coffees suffer the infirmity of not being “genuine” coffee. After all, if you are a true coffee lover, why would you add those miscellaneous flavors that would only serve to mask the true flavor of coffee?
Ah, but even coffee aficionados can’t deny the joys of an occasional cup of flavored coffee - even if they would never admit it to their coffee-loving friends and even if they call the practice too “plebian” for their taste. There is something to be said about being novel once in a while, after all.
And for those who consider themselves fans of flavored coffees, there is absolutely no reason to hide. If it tastes good, why should you inhibit yourself? It’s not like you are alone in your coffee-drinking habit. Even the Arabs, who were the world’s first coffee drinkers, liked to add spices such as cinnamon to their coffees and they did that way back when coffee was still largely unknown to Europeans.
Today, flavored coffee has come a long way from little more than a concoction of spices like cardamom, clove, nutmeg, black pepper, allspice, ground nuts, citrus peels, spirits, and chocolate. Our flavored coffees now get many of their tastes not from real spice but from chemical solvents that mimic the natural flavorings.
Flavored coffees are typically divided into four broad categories:
Vanilla-based Flavored Coffee
Coffees like these include crmes, like French vanilla (a very sweet, raspberry-like aroma) or Irish crme with its sweet, “thick” cream-like aroma. Then there’s vanilla nut which is similar to some to extent to French vanilla only with undertones of toasted almonds. Under the nut-based vanilla category of flavored coffee is hazelnut and macadamia nut, which are slightly sweet, nut-like in aroma and very similar to hazelnut liquors.
Chocolate-based Flavors
Flavored coffee of this category ranges from macadamia nut to crme brulee to mint. The result is a slightly sweet, and more predominant chocolate aroma in the whole bean with hints of vanilla (if you chose chocolate crme brulee) or mint (if you chose chocolate mint).
Fruit-based Flavors
Flavored coffee of this category includes chocolate raspberry, coconut crme, and pia colada. The fruity aroma in chocolate raspberry can sometimes be too intense to the point that it completely overpowers the other smells in your flavored coffee. Coconut crme is pleasant in contrast with only the slightest hint of vanilla and tropical sweetness. Pia colada flavored coffee is best reserved on special occasions.
Spice-based Flavors
Spice-based flavored coffee can either be cinnamon hazelnut or cinnamon almond praline. Cinnamon will come off as a strong smell but balanced well with the sweet nuttiness of hazelnut or almond and the cream of praline.
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