And I'm overdue for one

please consider donating your stuff to the local goodwill. They offer training and counseling to individuals with employment challenges. The things you donate can be written off- they will be recycled by the local community and thier resale will create economic opportunities for those that need it.

I don't do garage sales or ebay. All of the results of my junk purges go to Goodwill.

I throw everything away - even stuff I later need. I can't stand hanging on to useless crap I 'might need someday.'

Yet, when something needs fixed, they come to me because "I used to have that tool/part/material/lumber, but I threw it away"

I don't know what's going to be useful, so I generally don't worry about it too much... just find a place for one more box.

I know someday my kids will have to deal with it. So what? Consider it payback for poopy diapers.

...my wife is the complete opposite. She grew up in a clutter filled home, I basically grew up in a museum. I have 0 scientific evidence that this is the cause, but we laugh about it. Oh, by museum, I mean everything was neat, orderly and god forbid if you touch anything haha.

men tend to hoard stuff like old tools and car parts, some hoard newspapers, women in my experience hoard animals more and trash more than men. though I have seen outliers and women tend to hoarders more than guys, no idea if it's ever been studied but this is my experience.

but to be fair, I'm also the sort of person who every once in a while is called upon to build a working refrigerator out of twine and old bits of styrofoam.

Invariably when I go "ah, I'll never need this" I end up needing it 6 months later, for something.

That said, I do work on throwing stuff out. And every once in a while, doing a massive unloading of crap. It's cathartic.