I have sympathy for all of us trying to “de clutter”. Unfortunately I think I inherited the hoarding gene from my dad LOL. When I retired, I took 15, yes 15 large black bags of clothing ( 20 years of office work clothes, too small but I’m gonna get into SOMEDAY clothes, etc.) to the thrift shop plus 4-5 boxes of stuff we hadn’t used in 3-4 years but moved with us when we “downsized”. I have two more areas to clear out still. The stuff one collects Yikes!!. Took a big box of Christmas stuff and other things over to the thrift that we haven’t used in a couple of years last week. My Pop was the king of hoarders. Took DH and the person who was running the auction almost 3 months (of weekends) to get the property ready. I knew he had a problem but didn’t know the extent till he passed. We couldn’t figure out why he had so much crap. It was so disorganized that if he couldn’t find his hammer for example, he’d go out and buy another one or my favorite one, “it was on sale, it was a good deal, I may need that someday”. The joys of having a Depression baby parent, HA HA. Also found out both step brats were using him to dump their unwanted junk on him rather than renting a storage unit.
