ROFLOL! This is exactly what has happened to me recently.
I started cleaning my sunroom "junkroom' two weeks ago. Oh my, the things I have found. However, I have taken four boxes of books (went to the library book sale), three boxes of old mags (went to the veteran's hospital), and three trash bags out of that room, not to mention about six bags for the mission trip yard sale at church. Lo and behold if I didn't find my birth and wedding certificate's that have been MIA for about 4 years. Now to start on the craft, yarn, sewing stuff. It feels great to finally free myself of all this stuff I don't need, can't use, don't want. I'm trying to stick to the adage, "if I have not used it in the last two years, out it goes."
May take me all summer, because after all, I have to go through everything, don't I? LOL