Collections Versus Clutter

When is a variety clutter? You have a baseball card collection, a doll variety or a book variety on a exact author. Maybe you have all three or more. You just consider them collections that you do for fun and you like the items you collect.

By definition, a variety is a group of objects accumulated. By definition, clutter is to fill or litter with things in a disorderly manner.

Collections

Collections should be and are usually on display. Most individuals want to show off their collection. They are proud of what they have collected especially if they paid quite a bit for many of the pieces. Most display them in an arrangement that shows off all the pieces to visitors. Fellowships make racks, cupboards, shelving and individual cases for all the collections. Golf ball cases, baseball cases, baseball card sleeves and doll cases are easily ready encouraging the collector.

What if your collections is in a holder in the basement where no one can see it? It is taking up space that could be busy by the Christmas or Halloween decorations you put up every year for your house and friends? If this sounds familiar, it is clutter.

If your variety is displayed in a crowded manner so that visitors can only see a few pieces or it has taken over most areas of your home, you have clutter not a collection.

Take a look at the clutter variety and consider passing the pieces on to man in the family. I read quite a bit of Stephen King in high school. I bought all the hardback books and only read them once. Recently my nephew said he was concerned in reading them, so I have been sending him books periodically. They were just taking up space on my book case.

I know that at first it feels like you are giving away part of you, but just leaving it unused is undoubtedly doing you no good. Think of man that will undoubtedly enjoy the collection. Even if you pass it on over time, the end supervene will be more room to store something useful in your space and removing clutter. It takes time, but you will feel good about it in the end.

If you paid quite a bit for your collection, consider taking it to an appraiser to get a current value and then an auctioneer. This will ease your mind about getting what it is worth.

Collections Versus Clutter