Decluttering: What to Let Go and What Truly Matters?

A good day these days is one during which I have tossed at least one garbage bag of “stuff” away (read: donated, recycled or re-homed). Our new, smaller home will not have the capacity to contain all of the things that, without great thought, we stowed away over the years.

It feels good, freeing, liberating to get rid of the “stuff.” 

The first pass through the “stuff” is easy. In our home the “one thing in, one thing out” rule quickly morphed into “one thing in, one thing stowed in a sto...