Moving to a TINY HOUSE (condo). How does one go about DOWNSIZING????

[hunter]

14. If you are me, you stuff it all in a storage place...

... and then discover it's easier to pay the bill every month for a long, long time than it is to sort all the stuff out.

Don't do that.

Some communities have awesome recycling facilities like this:

http://www.mrwmd.org/programs-services/last-chance-merchantile

It's a blast to visit, and odd stuff that lands there does find a home. I bought my current laptop there for $10, and a couple of film cameras that were unobtainium to me when I was a kid.

In our family inherited crap ends up on my brother's small farm. He has a huge metal shed and a bunch of shipping containers. But he also gets a thrill selling stuff, even if it's stuff that belonged to our great-something-grandparents. Frustratingly, most in our family hear our ancestor's voices in our heads scolding us not to let their stuff go.

My parents fled the family burden of stuff (leaving it with us kids) to live simple in a tropical rain forest. They drink and bathe in water that falls on their roof and they eat food from the local market.