What we did was sell, give away, donate or throw out anything we have not used in the last year even if it was brand new and never used. Even then we still ended up with two extra Televisions and enough winter clothes to allow us to go two weeks without wearing the same clothes twice.
Round two occurred once our garage in our new TV home was filled up and we had no room for even one car or a golf cart. This time we got rid of anything we did not miss or need, had no room for or scratched our heads and wondered why we brought those items in the first place.
The funny part is that while we had too much of many things, we did not have enough of others. We left behind a lot of funiture as we thought our CYV was small. When we got here we discovered that although we had fewer rooms than our last house, the rooms we had were larger than the rooms we left (at least in our model). We also had more areas screaming for something to be placed there. We also left behind a lot of paintings as every wall in the house had a painting or two or three on it. Now we are short a few pictures and have to buy some.
We are now waiting for our attic stairs to be put in so that we can store our Xmas decorations and other seasonal items in the attic. I looked around it standing on my ladder and it is not too bad if you put a floor down in it. But, as the original poster stated, once something is put up there, it stays there forever. We have did the same thing with our last house. I never learn. Consider it a black hole for the things you cannot let go of.
Somehow throughout this, my closet still contains 15 long sleeve shirts, winter boots and heavy duty hooded sweat shirts. I think I will weed those out as soon as I get rid of the two pair of long underwear in my dresser drawers.
