It is absolutely liberating to get rid of stuff, this from someone who has helped clear a parent's house and is now downsizing myself. You benefit from a helper with a dispassionate eye, and some place to take the castoffs (Les Amigos in Windsor: ask them how much junk they get and have to send to landfil in relation to what they can sell or pass on...) THE RULE: 3 piles: Throw away now, send to some place it might be used, and 3) needs time to think about so keep FOR NOW.
It is absolutely liberating to get rid of stuff, this from someone who has helped clear a parent's house and is now downsizing myself. You benefit from a helper with a dispassionate eye, and some place to take the castoffs (Les Amigos in Windsor: ask them how much junk they get and have to send to landfil in relation to what they can sell or pass on...) THE RULE: 3 piles: Throw away now, send to some place it might be used, and 3) needs time to think about so keep FOR NOW.