OK, I know several people who have a lot of clutter in their homes because a mother went into a nursing home, elder family members died and left behind items, they have a pile waiting to go onto E-bay, children have left home and left belongings behind...
If you don't have use of a room or two in your home because of the clutter you need to deal with, assign a "frustration of messiness quotient" between 1 and 10 to those rooms. Add in the days that stuff has imposed on your lifestyle, then multiply your current family members' snide comments by that total. Now, estimate how much money you will bring in through a yard sale or selling the stuff on E-bay. Compare the financial total to the other equation you just did. Is it worth keeping all that stuff for the money you'll make? Would you feel better getting rid of it at a donation center in one big swoop for a tax write off and be done with it? I don't know the value of your items, but maybe mathematics can overcome your emotional attachment to some of the stuff.
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