I'm still reading through these old posts and found this one particularly helpful:
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Originally Posted by salpal
As far as emotional aspect of "things" I saw one of those organizer shows where the host said something along the lines of "That statue that Aunt Martha gave you does NOT represent Aunt Martha, she lives in your memory, not in the statue".....I try to remember that.
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That is so true. I recently decided that I'd been lugging my yearbooks around long enough, so I broke out the digital camera, took pictures of a dozen or so pages that held anything sentimental for me, and chuck about 100lbs of useless paper in the recycle bin. You know what, I didn't feel a loss at all, I felt liberated! We have probably 7 years before TV and will probably need every minute of that to empty our 4000sqft house, full attic, full basement and 2 story 40x40 barn/garage! Where did all this junk come from? When my wife and I married 20 years ago I moved from Atlanta with U-Haul's smallest trailer (4x6 I think)... I was an apartment dweller and left most of my furniture with my roommate and the trashman. We moved here 10 years later and it took 2 of U-Hauls largest trucks, their largest trailer and a car carrier bristling with strapped-on goodies and a minivan filled to the roof! If we were to move everything we have now, I'm guessing it'd take two tractor trailers. It's insane! Like I said, I'm working earnestly toward the goal and hope it can be accomplished in the "limited" time we have. Again, really enjoying the thread and the commiseration.