My mom, and to a lesser extent myself, have some attachment issues to old stuff. It&#x27;s not quite like &quot;Hoarders&quot; but it&#x27;s worse than it has to be, with lots of books and boxes and boxes of books, shelves buried behind boxes, etc.<p>Basically, all the stuff we have is a method of remembering the past, and if you are very sentimental, some of it crosses over into &quot;If I get rid of the object, I lose the memory&quot;. Trashing stuff then becomes difficult because I have to get past that towards the practical element of &quot;this is just clutter 99% of the time and it impedes my future self&quot;, on top of concerns like &quot;I don&#x27;t want to just trash it if it has value&quot; which make it 10 times as difficult to eliminate stuff.<p>I&#x27;m attacking the problem now with a slow-paced weekly streak to clean and organize things. I don&#x27;t necessarily throw things out every week, but I do document what I have and how to categorize it. That way I can make a decision without having to open a box and bring out the stuff.