What do collections and clutter have to do with each other? A lot. We all tend to do this. If one or two shells are neat, a hundred would be a hundred times neater. Wrong. A hundred shells (unless you are studying the mating habits of shellfish), quickly becomes clutter. Cleaning, rearranging, storing, and shopping for something for our collections takes precedent over just living.
Watch how easily this happens. My mother had a beautiful hand-painted poppy plate. It is now my poppy plate. I decided I really loved poppy plates. Next thing I knew I had about fifteen hand painted poppy plates. I spent untold hours searching for more poppy plates on ebay. Then I spent hours figuring out how to display all those plates.
One day I looked at all those plates and decided I had gone a bit crazy. I sold all but four - the original and three of my favorites. All the rest were sold on ebay. Why four? Because that's the number of plates my display thingy would hold. Someday I'll tell you about the elephant collection...
My Four Plates
I love the yellow and white poppy on this plate...
It has wonderful detail...
Do you have some collections that have gotten out of control?
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