GoldenEel

You will need to divide your current possessions into four major categories.

1. Beautiful things.
2. Emotionally important things.
3. Tools, devices, and appliances that efficiently perform a useful
function.
4. Everything else.

“Everything else” will be by far the largest category. Anything you have not
touched, or seen, or thought about in a year — this very likely belongs in
“everything else.”

You should document these things. Take their pictures, their identifying
makers’ marks, barcodes, whatever, so that you can get them off eBay or Amazon
if, for some weird reason, you ever need them again. Store those digital
pictures somewhere safe — along with all your other increasingly valuable,
life-central digital data. Back them up both onsite and offsite.

Then remove them from your time and space. “Everything else” should not be in
your immediate environment, sucking up your energy and reducing your
opportunities. It should become a fond memory, or become reduced to data.

It may belong *to* you, but it does not belong *with* you. You weren’t born
with it. You won’t be buried with it. It needs to be out of the space-time
vicinity. You are not its archivist or quartermaster. Stop serving that unpaid
role.