bnsaijim

Good ideas.

Colin had a come back for my plans to sell or donate- why are you passing on bad bonsai material? Food for thought...

It was awful hard to throw a lot of the worst stuff on the compost pile... But I did it.

I think you will always "acquire" new pieces, however, what you let in becomes "different".

I still have "junk" that I should make a decision on, but my buying trips tend to be more fruitless than not... Some pieces may end up being grown out in my yard, I'll still airlayer advanced but unnecessary branches for shohin, etc. Most will go to my kids.

I would offer one more "resolution"-

For each piece kept, find the tree within. Not the skeleton but the one in 5 years, 10 years. Draw it in a sketch book. Save the virtual design(s) you receive or do. THEN spend some time thinking about how you will get from here to there and develop a long term plan for each tree. Address any fault in that plan that can be corrected...

Jim
TX