When we left California three years ago we got rid of a ton of stuff. We purged. It felt great. What we decided to keep, we stored in a container on our property.
After living for three years in a relatively minimalist style, I am utterly shocked at some of the things that we opted to keep AFTER purging. Why so many bowls? FIVE cookie sheets? Enough bath towels to dry an elephant? Puh-leese! Time to purge again.
Five cookie sheets are so you can bake five dozen cookies at the same time … enough bath towels to dry an elephant are for when your kids get into mud/water numerous times throughout the day and you don’t want to run out of linen (oh, wait, maybe that’s just for the preschool set like one of mine 
), so many bowls are for when you have a party to welcome yourselves home and we all come over expecting ice cream.
On the other hand, I just eliminated a bag of clothing, two (yes two) old printers and a decrepit monitor and BOY did that feel good! Honestly I think stuff breeds in the closets when we are asleep.
Andrea said,Time for a yard sale! 
I know what you mean tho - I’m getting around to looking in boxes we moved over last year that are still unpacked. Moslty I just sit there muttering “what was I THINKING???”
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Tim said,
May 29, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
Keep it up! I add *so* little to our physical stock of possessions, yet at intervals I *keep* finding new bushels of stuff to purge out.
My current challenges: the bookcases and my backlog of writing drafts. After that: the closets, the garage, and the garden shed. On the one hand, I don’t look forward to the work of sifting, but on the other, I *love* the feeling of chucking the cruft!