Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life

by Matt Paxton

a Legacy List. At its core, a Legacy List is a method of narrowing down the essential items in your life.

If we don’t know the stories behind the stuff, we will never be able to freely let go of it.

I have worked with that generation and witnessed the indelible imprint the Depression left upon millions of people.

Like the ritzy ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was covered by volcanic ash, Pompeii

hoards are normal, clean homes that have been smothered by multiple generations’ worth of stuff. First, there was his parents’ stuff, accumulated in the home they’d lived in for three decades.