Quote Originally Posted by Zen View Post
You guys are mere amateurs.
You should see the stuff I'm cleaning out and throwing away.
Whew.
A whole lotta STUFF that I don't need now and probably never did.
10 years ago when i sold a 2 story 4 bedroom house and moved into a 2 bedroom apartment (a fourth floor walk-up no less), I got rid of literally half of everything I owned. Amazingly, I never missed a thing from that Grand Purge.
Two years ago I went through most of my books and sold 45 of them on Amazon.
This year DH and I are promising ourselves to go through ALL the basement stuff and purge and re-organize before winter. I did the stored emergency food and supplies already (carefully reading expiration dates), that felt good. Actually doing this kind of thing is incredibly unpleasant to me and I dread every moment, but once it's done I feel really good about whatever area is finished.