I moved from a 3600 sq ft house with a huge garden to a 1600 townhouse. It's an awful lot of work but kind of liberating at the end. Our driving philosophy was " if we haven't used it in 5 years or longer" we don't need. I ended up having most of my large furniture in a consignment store. made some money, donated the rest. rented a garbage bin and dumped everything that was too old or broken etc. We then rented a storage unit for the stuff that we weren't sure we could part with or stuff that towards the end we were too tired to think of. When we settled in our new place, we gradually got rid of the stuff in the storage area. I don't buy anything new now unless I get rid of something old. I love our new place and I can clean it myself in a couple of hours. Good luck!