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My late stepfather used to say that "three moves is as good as a fire" when it came to paring things down. We have stayed in the same house for 32 years and aren't planning on moving anytime soon so I have to purge things every few years or the closets would burst. I am sure that when we do move, I will discover that we still have too much stuff.The majority of the moves were corporate, paid for by the company, with professional movers to do the packing, loading and unloading. They would unpack too but we preferred to do that ourselves. Each led to getting rid of items we could not use in the new house, no longer liked, or didn't use often enough to keep. It allowed us to keep up with disposal of items every few years and to not acquire as much. We developed a pretty good system for directing movers and getting the new house set up quickly ourselves. The hardest move we ever made was next door. Which we had to do ourselves. We rolled the furniture down one driveway on a wheelbarrow and back up the next one! I carried boxes upon boxes across the back yards. That one was tough.
I wish that we had grandkids. None so far and it doesn't look promising at this point.