What is your secret to getting rid of stuff?

Some of us keep their spaces pretty clutter-free, and some seem inevitably to accumulate stuff, for various reasons, and despite the best intentions.

I’m one of the latter, and I’ve had many decades to do it in.

Now I’m faced with divesting and downsizing to prepare for a move, and I would like to hear the best strategies from people who have actually done it.

I know there are pros who do this, books to read, and declutter clubs to join. What I want to know is what methods, devices, categories, and psychological approaches you as a real person use to conquer the heaps and piles and filled drawers and closets of your life.