Getting Organized: Does it Have to Mean Get Rid Of?

I have noted in earlier posts, that my wife and I are collectors which can pose problems when fighting in the battle to get organized. We have both gotten to the place where our collections have out grown our space for display. This leads to tough decisions about what we want to display and what is going go to the box in the garage. But the temptations keep coming!

I collect caps and have some peg displays and some shelf display space but the collection has grown far beyond that space. The rest of the caps are in two boxes, one in the back of the closet and one in the garage. Understand that many, in fact about 80%, of these caps have a link to some past event in my life. The 2000 US Open at Pebble Beach, America's Cup Races, Jimmy Buffet concerts, or the trips to Paris, to name a few. Then there is my Wile Coyote cap (and T-Shirt) collection. I love that guy, he never gives up! On top of that, there are those related to MY teams. Cornhusker National Championships, the Bears of 1985, and now the Padres and the Chargers need that support.

So when one of the few groups I have ever paid to join came out with a line of "collectors caps" how could I help myself? The PGA Tour Partners Club has produced a line of Championship caps complete with their own display stand. The problem is that in order to hang the stand, something else has to come off the wall or it will "look too busy" to quote my wife. The shrine, I mean the wall, is pretty cluttered, even to my appreciative eye, but the decision to move things around is far different than the next issue that came up. Is it time to "get rid of" some of the collection?

Sure, I did get rid of a lot of caps before we moved to SoCal by giving them to neighborhood kids. I mean how many caps with Nike swooshes on them do you need? Not many kids in a retirement community however. I probably don't have to have 10 plus hats with big red N's on them either, but who knows?

So I am wrestling with a decision. Some of the caps have some value and might fetch an inflated price on eBay, if I caught someone on a sentimental day. But the same thing that would create that value is what makes them valuable or of sentimental value to me. Yes, I do know I can't take them with me!

I'll let you know later how this turns out.

Remember, you can let your clutter make you crazy or you can Get Crazy Organized!