135 - Adult Trinket Management

Organize 365 Podcast

Lisa Woodruff

Lisawoodruff, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, it is relatively easy to let go of inexpensive items of clutter that we no longer love and need. As you progress through your home decluttering/organization journey, you will naturally start to question why you are keeping items of greater value.

For many of us, the act of collecting is fun. As children, we collected Beanie Babies, Happy Meal toys, and rocks. As we age, the desire to have complete collections can consume us beyond our actual desire for the items being collected.

And once collected, collectibles have both a real and a perceived value.

So what do we do when we look around our homes and see expensive clutter that we lovingly collected and purchased?

Does the collection still bring you joy?
Have you documented the memory?
Look up the monetary value.
Share your collections with family.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional
0:07.6	organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home
0:12.3	organized and help you organize life stages and
0:16.0	unexpected events. So sit back, relax, and let's get organized. Today on the podcast we are going to be talking about
0:25.8	adult trinket management. Now I had a couple of other titles for this
0:31.1	podcast that I want to throw out there. One was adult
0:34.4	Happy Meal Toys, but I didn't want you guys to be mad at me. Or we could call
0:38.8	this expensive clutter. So the things that I'm going to be talking to you about today are collectibles, items
0:46.5	that you've been collecting, adding to, maybe have been passed down for generations and they're
0:51.6	expensive. I mean these are not happy meal toy
0:53.8	prices but we collect them like their happy meals like we have to get everything in
0:58.8	the set or everything that came out that year or every collectible that comes out each year in this series of whatever
1:05.3	it is that we collect. And you can collect everything from figurines to China, to baskets, art, just all kinds of things. You know what you collect. And if you're not
1:18.1	really sure what you collect, then look at any of the flat surfaces in your house and you know like your entertainment
1:25.0	center where your TV is or the sideboard by your dining room table or if you have
1:29.7	any ledges or shelves on your walls everything that's on those ledges or shelves on your walls, everything that's on those ledges and shelves in your
1:35.4	walls, the things that are on your dressers, your kids dressers, or you might even have a
1:41.3	whole curio cabinet full of figurines or a lot of different
1:45.8	artwork on the walls or special books that hold certain kinds of cards and coins and
1:51.3	stamps.
1:53.4	These are all collections.
1:55.8	And I talked a few podcasts ago about how boys have collections.
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