Minimizing the Collectibles
Do you have a large collection of “collectibles”? I sure do, several different collections in fact. Things just seem to accumulate over time.
As part of cleaning out my house the past few months, I’ve decided to give up my doll collection. When I was only 3 or 4 years old my great aunt left me her entire doll collection and over the years it was added to. Now that I’m 28, and don’t appreciate it as much, I decided that it was time to get rid of all the dolls that I don’t truly love. I went through all of them and pulled out the ones I truly love, less than 10 of the probably 60-100 dolls that I had.
Then I started pondering, what do I do with all those dolls that I don’t want. I picked up the phone and called my brother to see if my niece would like to have them. After all, it has family history and is only right that if someone in the family would like it, it should stay in the family. So I just boxed up the dolls to ship to my niece.
What does any of this have to do with being green? Well, the basic gist here is that just because you don’t want something, doesn’t mean no one wants it. In this case, I took a collection of items (this could be anything you collect) that needed thinned out and see if there is someone else that you know that would like them. People love to collect things, landfills don’t.
If you are doing some thorough spring cleaning like I am, really consider how you are getting rid of items.
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