How to get rid of that extra clutter in your home

Last year around this time my husband and I were about to move and downsize from a 4 bedroom living room, dinner room, kitchen, 3 baths, sitting room full basement. It was so over whelming that we had so much stuff to move. We were downsizing to a 1 bedroom 1 bath living room and kitchen. What are we to do with so much stuff we asked our self weeks before we were moving. I know lets have a garage sale. but it was in the winter and to put everything out in the yard would have been too much. So we decided to have a in house sale. Oh my that went very well. We had a kitchen set, living room set, chairs, tables, extra kitchen ware. We were able to sale a lot of the extra things that we could not take to our new condo. So if you are looking to get ride of your extra stuff, why not give a garage sale, auction, or just let someone who is in need look at what you have, and give it away for free. This will help you get rid of a lot of clutter when it is finally time for you to move. I was about to cry when I saw so much things that we accumulated after years in our home. And that's not all, a lot of extra items was my mother-in-laws old stuff that she did not throw away, so it just stayed in the basement and collected dust. How can you keep so much old stuff you may ask, well just leave everything in your basement, where no one  goes and beleive me it will pile up if you do not pay attention to it.So make sure you keep up with all that you have so when it is time for you to move, it wont be to hard.
I have some items left.