Okay, I think I got it in one, a serious new year resolution, is to 'declutter' stuff.
All this shopping is getting away with me a bit, and stuff just keeps building up....so out with the old, and make room for the new.

Hard to rid of stuff one gets attached to, silly really, can't take any of us with us when we depart this earth, so to help me along the way, I have been watching that tv show"buried alive" and although I am not as bad as that, I do have way too many shoes and clothes and perfumes.....handbags, scarves, books, especially cook books, and, and....oh never mind, you get the idea....also in my collectiveness, I like odd shaped and different coloured bottles, vases, etc. Such dazzling decanters.
Over the years, have collected some beauties, and now, find they are worth up to $300 each (such as 1960's Genie bottles). Oh I also have a singles record collection, probably over 2000 of them, but those are for the record juke box of course.
One such vase, I bought years ago because it was a good solid one for flowers, paid $3 at a garage sale, and, found in an antique collectors book recently, this very vase, it's worth $75 
I guess, when one gets old enough and hangs on to stuff long enough, it's value becomes something of an antique nature 

Well anyway, back to clearing out stuff, now I am on a roll, and it does feel good to give it away, or drop off at the op shop.