We've done this one before, but not for a loooooong time...
Do you collect anything?
I've never been much of a collector. I'm too random and a bit of a magpie, frankly. Very few physical things capture my attention for extended periods. I had the worst sticker-book in the fifth grade, because I just couldn't be arsed with it after awhile, even though I loved it at the start...
We used to have tumbling piles of books all over our house, and a substantial DVD collection, but we recently donated about 80% of everything to a local charity shop, keeping only the books and films we imagined we'd be likely to revisit. It doesn't do anyone any good just sitting in our house collecting dust.
The closest thing I have to a valuable collection by design is my music stuff, although a big part of what I'd collected was lost in a flood over a decade ago now. And considering all the work and energy and money I'd put into finding and collecting it all, I found it surprisingly easy to let go without much regret at its ruin.
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