EllaEnchanted
<font color=darkturquoise>iDIS...resistance is fut
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How about picking one small area--a cabinet or closet or shelf or whatever.
Then
Put a box on the floor nearby and go through that one space and take out each item that you KNOW you will NOT want in Florida and put each thing in the box.
When you have Finished the "space of the day" you quit. When John gets home he puts the box in the car or truck for the next convenient time to make a run to a place you can donate it. Someone there will get use out of it and you have a few less items to deal with.
As you work your way around the house you are slowly making decisions and creating space to use for packing and staging later on.
Some things will stay in the house until a future look at the same cabinet or even make it to Florida and then you will decide that it needs to live with someone else.
It's all good though--slow and steady!
. Maybe ??
It sounds so easy when you say it.....but there's no place to donate it to. I can just get rid of clothes and shoes. When we cleared out my mother's house.....well, actually my brother did....he said he couldn't donate anything, not even a book to the local library. Nobody wanted it. So all I can do is throw it out.
I don't mean to make excuses. I'm sure your method will work and I will give it a good try. But probably not until I get back from my cruise in Sept. My brain is focusing on that right now and I'm only just starting to think about how to pack out this house. We'll see what happens.
Thanks for making it easier for me to do when I get started.
HOPING YOU ENJOY THE CRUISE !! 
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Furniture is also difficult to get rid of, but we did find a Christian place called Love Inc in Oregon that would take good used furniture. They did not sell it, but gave it to people that were in need for free. Salvation Army and Goodwill took lots of things, but we still wound up filling 3 30 yard dumpsters just to get rid of "stuff", ie. Total Gym 2000, Body by Jake, etc. etc. I will say that not all of it was ours though. We had 2 garages, a shed and a barn. One of the garages, the shed and barn became "storage" over the 20 years for several family members and over time mice and weather turned alot of it into junk. I do not envy you, Deb, but getting an early start is a very good idea. 
) Is there a youngster you could pay a little to help you. I'm thinking you could sit and give directions and she/he could do the actual moving around of stuff....like wrap and put in a box to move, or put into giveaway box or put in throw away pile. My uncle had to inventory all of his belongings for court - 50 years worth of stuff from 2 marriages 
- because the son of his second wife sued him after she passed and was trying to take everything he had in addition to what he and she had together. 
He hired a young woman to help him. She dug thru everything, he wrote it down. He was in his mid 80s and could not have managed without the help. I'm thinking young teen, too young to get a "real" job that might like to make some summer spending money. We have a 13 year old neighbor girl that did some weeding for us to earn money for church camp this summer. She also will do other tasks. Just another thought. 
