Speaking of too much stuff

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OK girls, I need advice on how to approach the hubs, gently, about getting rid of a large pile of stuff.

I married a packrat. He's a wonderful guy, but he can't let anything go. He works in construction, so every toilet that still works, every sink and ugly cabinet, every sliding door and window he replaces... the old one comes home.

This is the underside of our guest house, it's 450 square feet. Circled is where I have to go to get to our deep freezer. I preserve most everything, more often than not I dehydrate or can food. It's dangerous to go back there - climbing over all that STUFF!

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I just cleared out the yard behind the guest house - anything I could lift myself. There's still more I could get rid of - all the pots that plants came in that he wants to keep because "someday we'll have a tree farm" (hey, by then all that plastic will be rotting!). There's a sliding door I can't move myself, and a 6ft jetted tub, and old iron rails for a porch/stairs.

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I understand he thinks we will use these things one day. But the truth is, even now, when we HAVE an investment house to work on, most of it will not work. We have about 7 sinks, and not ONE will work in the two bathrooms in this remodel. None of the cabinets will work, and neither will any of the windows - we have enough of those for TWO houses.

It's probably easier to just look at all the pics in imageshack:
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We aren't slobs, we're solidly middle class, college-educated (he has a master's in education, all his teaching stuff is in the attic yet, five boxes of it...and I suspect, we are not able to have kids so why keep it?). I do interior decorating on the side, trying to get out of my computer job. Our house, and the places people usually see, is BEAUTIFUL. Sure can't tell by all this though!

So here is what I want to do: convince him to let me SELL THIS STUFF. It might even pay for a vacation. I need advice on how to approach it. I'm a total minimalist, the less stuff, the happier I am (to a point, you can feel deprived), so this climbing over mountains of kitchen cabinets, bifold doors, and newel posts is killing me.