Are you in the midst of spring cleaning? Or perhaps, like many of us as, there’s a more substantial cleaning that needs to happen in your home- that is, getting rid of the decades of stuff that clutters your house and perhaps stands in the way of moving on to a new stage of life. If you’ve lived in your home for a long time, you’ve likely accumulated more sheets, towels, pots and pans than anyone can use in an entire lifetime, let alone the next 20 years. But no one claims this decluttering is easy. Take, for example, this recent story by Kathleen Hughes in the Wall Street Journal (paywall) as she describes the challenge of downsizing and regrets her inability to give away her bundt pan, despite her confidence she will never bake a bundt cake again.

The website MyMove.com helps you orchestrate your move, access discounts connected to moving and change your address with the Post Office. They recently put out a useful post on downsizing, called the Senior-Friendly Guide to Downsizing, which contains some good advice about the piles to keep and discard, packing strategies and sifting through the clutter to discern what’s essential. And speaking of essential, you should watch the recent TED Talk of Bob Stein, a 71-year-old new media publisher who came to realize that we need to create a new ritual for sifting through our belongings, recalling their place in our lives, and finding new homes for them. So pull out some of those boxes in the attic, and Watch Here.