Decluttering and Purging

I've finally hit a point in my life where I'm ready to get rid of things. I'm genetically a packrat, but I'm just so tired of all this crap that we don't use and half of which I don't even like. For a couple years now I've been wanting to purge, but I'm just now (in the last year) actually able to do it. And I'm getting rid of lots. In the past 6 months or so I've probably donated 4 trunkloads worth of stuff and probably thrown away just as much. I started with the stuff that was readily available, toys the kids weren't playing with, clothes I wasn't wearing. And now I'm going through stuff in storage. It all needs reboxing for the eventual move anyways. So far I've brought home 4 trunkloads, and I only have one trunkload to take back. The rest is either in the trash or in other boxes to be donated. I'm also going through baby clothes. I've gotten hand-me-downs from lots of people, so my collection was huge. Literally, when my boys were babies, they could 2 months without wearing the same thing twice, not the same outfit, the same pair of jamas or even the same onesie! So I've started with the boy clothes (since the baby is still wearing the girl clothes), I put everythign into 3 piles: love it, it's okay, and hate it. The "hate its" obviously go into the donation box. The "love its" are kept and then I go through the "okays" again. I try to keep my number of outfits/jamas/onesies to 14, but of course, if there are more "loves" than that, then they all stay. If there are less then I pick out "okays" until I reach 14, though usually I end up with a few more than 14 b/c I still have packrat tendencies. But I'm getting rid of a lot either way. I've actually only gone through up to size 6 months (this is in jsut boy clothes mind you) and I've already donated a whole trunkload to Safe Passage, not to mention I still have 2 more boxes ready to go. So yeah, I have a LOT of baby clothes. I really hate having so much junk though that I don't need. It's more stuff to move (and since we've moved 6 times in the almost 7years we've been married, we move often), it's more stuff to keep track of, it's more baby clothes to wash and put away and switch out when they outgrow it. Oh, and remember that trunkload of stuff ready to go back to storage? Most of it is DH's stuff that he's told me I can't rid of. And actually, if it were up to him, I wouldn't have donated all that stuff so far, I would have kept it so we could garage sale it. I told him no way. I'm getting rid of stuff partly so I don't have to move it! I think living in basically 800sf has helped my purging efforts as well. In reality, we live in a 4 bedroom 1200sf house, but my mom has 2 of the bedrooms, so the kids and I only occupy about 800sf of it. Can't afford to have a lot of clutter around here, the house is full enough. And we came from a 2000sf house, so there's lots of stuff that we're not using. I don't mind the space (or lack thereof) though. It's less to clean. It's helped me purge. And, now I really don't care what size house DH gets for us. It's so freeing to not care about "stuff"!!