I'm a bit like Kim - moving house tends to make you throw out a lot. At the moment, 99% of what we own is in boxes and it had to fit into storage into a room above a garage. So we had to be absolutely ruthless.

We got rid of so much stuff. Even our bedroom suite and couches! We don't have a dining table! We live in my mum's house so we didn't need it as her furniture is here, and we didn't want to store it. And in all honesty, in all the boxes we have here, I can probably tell you what's in 1/4 of it.

So tips of how I did it -

If you don't like the thought of giving it away, have a garage sale or list on eBay and make it earn money for you. Our biggest surprise was we got $700 for our dining table and chairs - we'd only paid $900 for it seven years previously!

If you forgot you had it, have your moment remembering where you got it/who gave it to you/what it meant to you (which is different from what it means to you - let's face it, if you forgot you had it, then it doesn't mean much), and toss it out.

Get rid of kitchen stuff you don't use. Do you really need 100 mugs in case you have someone over? Do you still need the dinner set you got from the reject shop when you first moved out? Goodbye!

Toss out old linen or cut it up for rags and use the newer stuff or stuff that is in better condition.

Cull kids toys - do you need to keep all the scrappy bits that arrived in a show bag/kinder surprise/ happy meal? Get rid of the jigsaw puzzles missing a piece - in case you find the piece.

CDs and DVDs take up a lot of space. Box up all the covers and put the disks in one of those 200 slot cases.

The bigger the space you allow for something, the bigger the problem can be. Before DD2 was born, DH used her bedroom as his office. Disaster! Stuff everywhere. But when we needed that room back to set up for her, he was reduced to a table in the garage and suddenly those old sports trophies could go, the piles of paperwork could be sorted and filed properly and he could find everything he needed.

It is easy once you take emotion out. And if you still can't bear to throw it out but it has no use, then put it in a box and store it in your garage.