What to Do With Your Stuff Before a Big Move

A man packing up his childhood home in New Jersey, getting it ready to sell after his parents relocated to a retirement community, told me he found eleven unopened boxes in the attic still taped shut from a move that happened in 1998. Nobody remembered what was in them. Nobody had needed whatever it was for twenty-six years. That’s usually the moment people realize their relationship with their belongings has been on autopilot for decades, and a big move is often the first real forcing fun