Downsizing and preparing to sell the house

What a task. I can say with 100% certainty that I had too much stuff. Stuff I didn't need and honestly a lot of stuff I didn't even want. I was a hobby shopper and it showed. Whether I was buying clothes or things I thought I needed to make life easier or things I thought I needed for my business, I shopped and brought it home and had to find a home within my home for all that stuff. Then I had to manage all the stuff. If it didn't have a home yet, it seemed to overflow and I'd have to move it out of the way. I did a lot of moving things, daily. It got to be overwhelming and hard to manage. There was always a few loads of laundry to be done, dishes needing to be loaded or unloaded in the dishwasher, stuff to be moved so I could get to other stuff and attempt to be productive. It was clean but messy and it drove me NUTS. When the decision was made to sell the house and go full time in Salty B, I had no idea how I was going to get everything I "needed" in such a small space. She's 8ft wide by 34ft long. My house was 4 bedroom 2.5 bath. HOW was I going to make it work? I had a WHOLE BEDROOM I had turned into a closet and it was full of clothes and shoes. I started going through the clothes and shoes and donated about half of it. I looked around and it was still full. How??? I had literally given away half of it, I don't know how I still had so many clothes, but I did. I turned my focus to selling everything I didn't think I needed, and as I looked at how much storage space I had in Salty B, I made adjustments and sold some more. I hung onto the furniture for staging, but once the house was in escrow, I sold almost all of it. What little bit I kept, I gave to friends and family to "babysit" or I put it in my STR in the FL panhandle. Y'all. I still had SO.MUCH.STUFF. I had a wonderful lady, Sadie, on one of those selling apps that bought some stuff and said if I had more to let her know. My daughter came over and went "shopping" and basically took whatever she wanted, and then Sadie took the rest. She must have made 10 trips but she took it all.

But there was still stuff everywhere. I put all the clothes I just HAD to keep in plastic totes and gave the rest to a sweet friend, Stacy, to donate. Then I went through those totes again and again and gave her more stuff. Let me tell you, not as much fits in those totes as you think. Everything that was left was loaded up and taken to storage. Two storage units and an airplane hangar later (also houses the airplane), the house was empty and ready for her new owner. Salty was now sitting in my In-law's back yard waiting to be finished, so we got to work finishing her up as much as we could. We ended up delaying our first trip becasue she wasn't ready. We got her ready enough and then it was time...time to load all the stuff we had set aside and hope it fit.

Welp, it didn't. BIG shocker. So we loaded only what we absolutely needed, then crammed in any extra stuff we could, then took the rest to storage. Now every time I pass through Montgomery, I try to make a visit to at least one storage unit or the hangar and take something to the flea market or sell something on marketplace. I still have a TON of stuff but at this point its been almost 8 mos and if I havent used it in 8 mos I don't need it. I'm about ready to pull up a roll-off dumpster and take care of the rest. Moral of this story: I'm not done downsizing yet. Are you surprised?!

Our home before going full time