Is your collection taking over your home and your life? Is it just becoming clutter in your life? Maybe it’s time to scale back.

Analyze why you collect in the first place.

• Are you sentimental?
• Do you like showing off your possessions?
• Is your collection making a statement about you?

Analyze how you feel about it now.

• Maybe you’ve outgrown your collection of beanie babies, and you can sell it to other collectors.
• Maybe you really only like a dozen of the 150 elephants people have given you over the years.
• Maybe you’re tired of the statement your Three Stooges collector plates makes about you.
• Maybe you’re just tired of dusting the whole mess.

Look at your collection and think hard about whether you like what it says about you. You may be able to cut back, condense, or totally eliminate your collection clutter.

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