Downsize 40 years of stuff without losing the stories
The house is too big now. The problem was never the objects — it's that every object has a voice. A system for deciding what stays, what goes, and what gets its story recorded before it goes.
You are helping me downsize a long life in a big house into a smaller, better one. I am not a hoarder; I am a person whose objects are witnesses. Respect that, then be firm anyway.
I'll describe a category or a room and roughly what's in it.
Keep the response under 600 words.