I’m in the process of getting my house ready for sale. The transition from my last house to this one was smaller to larger so I didn’t have any motivation to glean through 12 years of accumulated “stuff”. I just packed most of it into boxes and let the movers have at it. It’s now 8 years later and we expect to move into a smaller living space. Thus my goal is to de-clutter and dispose of all the crap, either unusable or otherwise, and lighten the load in my life. So far I’ve been pretty successful.
Part of the reason I just kept throwing all my old tech into a box was that most of it still worked. I just upgraded and didn’t want to fill up the landfill with more hazardous waste. Now that my county has a tech recycling process, that excuse just won’t fly. So out it goes. What I can’t sell will be donated. What can’t be donated will be recycled and what can’t be recycled will just be dumped.
And as I look around at the now (mostly) empty rooms I feel like a tremendous load has been lifted from my life. Ahhhhhh!