

All that is not worth transporting must go (and transporting is costly in time, money and sweat, so items to transport must be worth that much or more). Most east coast cities have decent Craigslists or buy nothing groups or thrift stores and its easy to pick up free/cheap furniture, kitchen stuff and other things if you need it when you get there.Īs u/eilonwyhasemu said, focus on what to keep not what to lose. Keep that in mind when you have something where you are having trouble deciding. Things are expensive to move, especially if they never get used again. You probably don't need a lot of house repair stuff and outdoor things at your new place, and its about to be winter good time to get rid of all the outdoor stuff sooner rather than later. You probably won't have a lot of space in your kitchen, get rid of gadgets you never use, duplicates, etc. Things like my pictures, yearbooks, sentimental stuff I know I won't go through, etc. You can get a feeling for how much stuff you will have sooner rather than later. I like pulling out the stuff I KNOW I will take but don't need now and put it in a pile / boxes. If you have a room of a similar size in your current place use it as a staging area to test out how much stuff you can bring and play with furniture sizing and placement.

You don't have room or time for those things.

Don't move garbage / broken stuff / someday stuff.
