Is your new to you home another 5 bedroom 3 car garage house? If not, where are you putting all that stuff?
I understand sentimental things, but is there any way you can sell the majority and repurchase? Yes, a childhood piano is worth moving, as long as your wife still plays and its not a current dust collector
DH and I have worked on reducing "stuff" since we retired, but I realize if we were to move or God forbid, something happed sooner than we planned, we still have way too many do dads and what nots for our kids to chuck in the garbage LOL.
Our small ranch home is still a work in progress, I can't imagine trying to haul it all someplace. I would go serious Marie Kondo beforehand.
Best of Luck in your move. Enjoy your new place!
Well... I always joked that my next move would start with a can of gas and a match... but that's easier said than done.
We've thrown out our previously precious multi-decade collection of National Geographic magazines (I weighed a batch, each 2.5 foot of shelf is 62lbs, so thats about 400lbs...).
Last week I managed to throw out most of my college text books (electrical engineering, so while old the physics hasn't changed).
Yesterday I pitched a couple of boxes of status reports and performance evaluations... worthless now, it felt like I was throwing away "ME".
To us it feels like we're tossing a lot, but it's still barely making a dent.
1 stall of the 3 car garage is full of motorcycles... since I'm moving to the land of ice and snow the bikes gotta go. But winter is a very bad time to sell motorcycles even in AZ. And the ads draw scammers like flies to a politician.
The worst part is throwing away perfectly usable items. My folks experienced the last bit of the Great Depression so I was ingrained with a re-use everything mindset. Throwing it out just feels like waste when it was frugality that allowed me to turn a layoff at 55 into early retirement.