Seeking advice

Hello wonderful people! I would like some advice on something that I’ve been struggling with for nearly my entire life that I’ve only recently realized is a problem. I’m a hoarder. There’s no other way to put it. I own and run a used book store that I started 60 years ago when I first noticed I had a problem and decided i needed to do something to decrease the size of my hoard. Unfortunately books are only a small percentage of the things I collect and also my most recent obsession. hardly anyone comes to my bookstore anymore so my collection has begun growing again. In my lair beneath the bookstore I have countless collections in sorted stacks and piles. Everything from bottle caps to motorcycles. I have a collection of ancient coins that would put the Smithsonian to shame right beside a pile of broken heaters that continues to grow with each passing year. The hoarding began in my youth when I started collecting the breastplates and helms of those who had seeked me out to claim the honor of taking my life and after a time I became fond of the trinkets the warriors would sometimes carry and started hoping for an attack simply to expand my hoard. However the attacks grew less and less frequent until they stopped all together. It was at this point in my life that I realized if I wanted to continue collecting various items I would have to make some drastic changes in my general appearance and demeanor. I did this and though it took me several years I found myself among the people and among an unlimited supply of items to collect. And that’s where my problem really started to get out of hand. Every time I found a collection to be to large I would start collecting something new while still occasionally adding new items to my previous collections. My problem is this. I find myself unbearably unable to stop collecting books even though I’m completely out of room in the bookstore. Should I start adding some of my favorite novels to a collection in the lair below and donate the rest to a thrift store and start collecting something new? If so what would you suggest?


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