Nov 02, 2013 11:06 AM EDT
Oprah Winfrey 'Declutters' with Auction Sale To Benefit Academy in South Africa

Oprah Winfrey is downsizing her collection of mementos with a huge auction sale Saturday, PEOPLE reports.

The 59-year-old talk show host and actress hopes to declutter her life with the sale, which will also benefit the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa.

"I've been accumulating things since 1985," Winfrey told Entertainment Tonight. "It's just too much stuff. I talk about it a lot in [O] the magazine. We talk about decluttering. And I realized, I need to declutter my own life. It is very freeing. I am downsizing." 

The giant sale, which will take up three tents on the Santa Barbara County polo grounds, will include autographed electric scooters, a set of library stairs purchased in London and a 19th-century doll that is expected to go for $8,000.

The priciest item will likely be a Louis XVI chest of drawers, which could bring in as much as $50,000.

"It is very freeing. I am downsizing," Winfrey said.

The media mogul is planning to sell a lot of the dolls she has been accumulating.

"People come to stay with me, and they say they get scared with all the dolls," Winfrey said. "You wake up, and there's like 12 dolls staring at you." 

Some of the items might be a bit difficult to give up, but Winfrey hopes the sale will help her learn to let go.

"I'm trying not to be attached to things," she said. "I'm trying to live the life that I talk about, like not letting things define you. But it's hard." 

An online sale is also available. The lot description reads "offering antiques, contemporary furnishings and fine art from Ms. Winfrey's residences in Indiana, Hawaii, Chicago and Santa Barbara, as well as items from the 'La Quinta' estate and from various properties of Bob Greene."

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