10.5 years of clutter and 2 weeks to go!

After 10.5 years in the same duplex, I have accumulated A LOT of stuff! I wouldn't say I am a hoarder by any means, perhaps I had a mild shopping problem at one time, when I was bored or depressed, but now that I have identified the problem with clear eyes and a big WTF was I thinking, that issue is clearly nipped in the bud.  Now the question is, what to do with all of it?  Due to an illness and unemployment, money has been extremely tight, so I have turned to selling wedding leftovers on craigslist.or and taking clothes to consignment shops and other means to make some cash for my sell able goods and donating the rest of my previous unconscious expenditures.

I would like to go into our new home clutter free, keeping it clean and never getting to this point again.  I often watch shows like clean house and how do I look and think about how people got to the point they were at in their homes.  For me, I think it was losing my sister to cancer 5 years ago.  Shopping had always been a pastime we shared, something we had in common.  I enjoyed wearing nice clothes, even though I was overweight, I wanted to present myself well. When she passed away, I had a hard time getting rid of her stuff, I bought tings when I was depressed which was a long time after she died.  I went over board planning my wedding because I was extremely stressed out, and bought so many things that were unnecessary.

I am hoping that this new start brings my husband and I so many things that we so desperately need in our lives.  Time to stop being scared and take a chance in doing something in life that you usually wouldn't do. What's life if you don't take chances?