Yah, most over 30 have heard the George Carlin bit or are "personally" familiar with "stuff".

You live....you collect things, simple fact. You live you have to let some go too. Sometimes you are sentimentally vested in "things".

How do you deal....or let go?

I have way too much ****, so I can't help you here, sorry.

For years I have relocated with my family around the country to many military stations, so materialistic things break I learn to just let it go.
Hanging on to emotional baggage is so much harder for me to let go but hey I am working on it.

Hummm I have a 12 x 24 ft shed full guess I'm not the one to ask either... But I have finally been working on the 10 x 12 ft shed and plan on getting it all emptied and re-done this next year....

And I did go through my bedroom and closets in my room this year and donated like 7 bags of clothes and shoes....

I guess there comes a time when we finally have to say it is time to go through our stuff and eliminate those things we have had stuffed in closets ect... that are not being used and learn to let go...

It is a slow process for me but working on it...

if i don't need it,i throw it out in the yard.one of the local bums will pick it up and sell it for booze

If I don't need it,I either burn it,throw it away or give it away!

I hate clutter!

Having to move house a lot does help.
What some ppl do: if you haven't seen or used it for at least a year, you obviously don't need it, so you can chuck it.

Every so often I feel like cleaning out closets, attic etc. and I use that vibe to actually do it. Currently going thru a phase like that. The amount of clothes I had, sheets and stuff, pfff... Dumped 5 garbage bags of clothes.
I think just doing it helps. It gets easier when you're working your way through it.

Things I no longer use or need, I give to someone who really needs it and if no one needs it I give it to the local charity. I don't like clutter and I find as time progresses, I am fully content with the minimum in my life. I'm am very aware of how little I really need in my life as far as "possessions" are concerned.

I am selective of stuff I keep. Every couple of months, I will got through a room in the house and toss stuff or donate it. I have a bit of Spartan look in my house as I hate clutter.

My lifestyle choice has brought much peace to me.

http://www.becomingminimalist.com/5-years-of-better/

Letting go of "stuff" is easy, especially if you have excess stuff. In fact, it makes people feel great to donate their stuff, and it's a win-win situation. People less fortunate get stuff and people with too much stuff free up space to fill with more useless stuff that will eventually get donated the following year when they determine it's time to go through their stuff again. What a great world we all live in.

Now giving up 'sentimental stuff'. That ain't so easy. Tears are often involved. It may look like a dilapitated old paper mache pink pig's head to you, but to me it's a night spent laughing at the kitchen table with my mom with paste flying about from the long strips of paper placed over the balloon. We spent hours working on that art project and you'd think I was Picasso that just created the Mona Lisa the way she raved about it when it was done. I carried that old thing with me everywhere I went for years and years as a symbol of my mom's love, until recently. I should clarify, stored in a box in a closet somewhere, not like under my arm everywhere I went...that would be weird to say the least.

Point being, saying good-bye to it was difficult. I think we worry that the memories tied to these 'things' will be lost along with the actual memento we keep to remind us of them. They aren't. They may just be harder to access after we say goodbye to that kind of 'stuff'. These kinds of things are the treasures of our lives and we mourn their loss. Stuff is only as important as the significance we give it. Letting go of insignificant things is easy. Letting go of stuff with sentimental value is a completely different story.

I've lost everything I owned about 3 or 4 times (I've lost count) and now I have more crap than I ever had before. So stuff can be replaced. I need to get rid of some clothes I never wear, but the rest of it is my precioussssssssssssssss.

Stuff is just that "stuff" - maybe it can't always be replaced, but I hate clutter and little nicknacks that just waste space. If it doesn't have a purpose, then out it goes.