Describe one positive change you have made in your life.

I have started to declutter my house. Life has been so hectic the last eight years and I am ready to actually look at what I have amassed in that time frame and start paring back.

I like to collect things. There is always a danger of giving me something because it might turn into a few dozen somethings. This happens to me a lot. I need to go through what I have and let go of the things I was not really keen on in the first place.

It especially got bad because of my in-laws and kids getting me gifts and because I was nice and said I liked it the first time I now have so many related things.

“Mom you said you liked horses.” Well, I actually said horses were cool because I know you are really into them. I was never really a horse girl. All the other girls were and I wanted to be different, so I obsessed over zebras. Still like zebras. The patterning is cool.

My partner is well aware of my collections of my little ponies and unicorns, but never steered the kids into getting mom magic horses as gifts.

Anyway, it is time to declutter and I want to find loving homes for all the junk I no longer want. I know some people who do collect the things I have, so I am going to offer it to them before it goes into the donation box. I am not going to foist boxes of things onto other people. That is how I got in this mess in the first place, I cannot do that to someone else.