# Retire/Inactive Picklist Values

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/retire-inactive-picklist-values/44885>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** properties\
**Created:** [October 5, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/retire-inactive-picklist-values/44885 "2021-10-05T19:37:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![CSkeen5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5fc32e/32.png) [@CSkeen5](https://community.hubspot.com/u/CSkeen5)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/retire-inactive-picklist-values/44885/1 "2021-10-05T19:37:01Z")

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There should be a way to retire or make a picklist value inactive. Its common to have certain values become obsolete overtime. When that happens we should be able to remove them from the picklist, while still preserving them in historical data.

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**Author:** ![RBozeman](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/rbozeman/32/8786_2.png) [@RBozeman](https://community.hubspot.com/u/RBozeman)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/retire-inactive-picklist-values/44885/2 "2023-02-03T19:42:36Z")

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Definitely agree, a simple way to do this in the UI would be great.

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**Author:** ![GTomei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@GTomei](https://community.hubspot.com/u/GTomei)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/retire-inactive-picklist-values/44885/3 "2023-08-10T09:44:26Z")

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We really need this feature, can’t have 10000 tags in a picklist just because we used for a while some tags and we need to preserve those past stats