Have you ever thought about what you’d actually take with you if you had to move?
My husband and I have been having that conversation for a couple of years now. Not seriously. Not with a real estate agent or a timeline. Just the occasional “maybe we should think about something smaller” over coffee that gets dropped before either of us has to commit to anything.
But the thought stays. It sits there in the background every time I open a closet that’s too full or walk past the spare bedroom that hasn’t had a guest in it since 2021.
Then I came across something called the move-out decluttering method. The idea is simple. You walk through your house and ask yourself one question about everything you own.
Would I pack this up, load it into a truck, and unpack it somewhere else?
I figured it would be an interesting exercise. Maybe I’d find a few things to get rid of. Maybe it would help me finally deal with the kitchen gadgets I keep pretending I use.
BUT…
What actually happened was way BIGGER than that.
Room by room, that one question shattered every excuse I’d been using to keep things I hadn’t touched, worn, or thought about in years. And by the time I was done, I didn’t just have a cleaner house.
I had a much clearer picture of how much of my home was built around a version of my life that doesn’t exist anymore.