Wow. What a wonderful story!!! i can relate to this - minus the storage unit part. Just in terms of packing things away and then for some reason months or even a year or two (or more) later, going through the boxes and wondering why on earth I kept almost all of it. Fished out a few special bits and the rest was given away.

Thanks so much for sharing this. Wonderfully insightful and I adore the way you described your "stuff" and your reactions to it after 16 months. Brilliant.