Great posts, all of you. Ted, glad you got this thread started.
I'm going to gradually slow down with work. I have given thought to taking on fewer new clients, eventually vacating my office, and then meeting clients somewhere in the courthouse. For me it won't be a sudden change from working to not working.
I think part of the change is focusing on exactly what you want to collect or to continuing to collect; and minimizing the random acquisitions of stuff that doesn't exactly fit with what your focus is. Then after that, do you start selling off, or do you leave it to a spouse or kids to sell?
I too confess that this is me: "some of the duplicates I bought (due to my lack of organization)." I have cards that I didn't initially realize were duplicates. JCRedBird's Cardinals Fan confession actually is a twofold confession. 1- having duplicates due to a lack of organization, and 2- "sell off some"... That's me, too. Having discovered unintentional duplicates, I have then sold or traded some of them, but not all.
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