Hi, MarBess, already as a little boy I started to collect stamps. Whenever we got visit at home, the visitors brought stamps for the little boy. :-) I collected keenly. Over the years I got a big collection.
As an adult man I stopped collecting stamps. About 25 years ago I given away my collection. I only kept the stamps with cycling motifs.
If nowadays by chance I see a stamp with bicycle motif, again, ...I buy them. :-)