This past year was a strange one for me. In my home in Chicago IL I had a huge 4x8ft tall bookcase just dripping with the opulent deck collection. I had decks in Baba bags lined up in an old wine crate artfully placed on the floor near an arm chair, I had the decks in sections by TdM, RWS, Thoth, etc etc. I moved from the Midwest to the New England area and in the process luged the 9 large boxes of tarot cross country. I began to redesign my tarot 'center' I had a floor to ceiling bookcase just loaded with the decks and loved passing them by and touching them. Then I began to clean via the "Life Changing Magic of Tiding Up" book I was reading and my collection took a huge turn. In holding each deck and asking if it sparked joy in me (After doing 3/4 of the rest of the house one gets to know the true spark' which is why one does this thing in a certain order.) I found that over 2/3 of my collecting didn't. I had decks because "That's an example of xyz deck", "This deck will be worth money some day","Oh this deck is really rare", "This one was a great idea for a deck I love it", but they didn't spark joy.
Now I am in the process of moving once again and now I have 2 small boxes of decks that are so precious to me that it's like protecting kittens. I can now close my eyes and reach out and every single deck I would grab would be a deck that I truly and deeply love. What this also does is that adding a new deck means that the new deck has to meet with the same criteria. My collection went down well over 100+ decks and now it's a better collection for it. I can't even begin to say how life chaining it was. So this year I WILL add decks but most likely I will add less then 5 and that's ok so long as they spark joy.