I enjoyed reading this. I am on the web searching for just this stuff, because I am in the process of way downsizing the junk in my life.
I keep having breakthroughs (going over the speed bumps) and find I can move to another level. That said, I have so much crap. The deaths of my father, mother and grandmother over a period of years left me so cluttered with sentimental objects. It is a lot to dig out from under.