  I don't have room for clutter in my life. There is just too much stuff all around. I love shopping as much as, if not more than, the next woman.
But, where they collect, I replace and update. "Out with the old and in with the new! " New acquisitions give me an excuse to dispose of the extra, the superfluous, the substitutions for what I really want. I have learned not to hold too tightly to anything. Loss is expected, it is a part of everything. Look at nature -, always from birth, to growth, to death: loss. Or life - birth, growth, independence, dependence, then death: loss. Love - birth, growth, death: loss. Push me, and I give, I am yielding. It is the natural cycle. Resistance is futile. I can always start over again. 
