Got a kick out of this when I ran across it the other day:
Mine used to be similar.
I read a piece sometime ago that Millenials, and even many Gen-X had no interest in their parents and grandparents crap since they prefer to live more simply. So there were problems finding homes for Ma’s china and china cabinet, as well as the hummel collection with it’s display cabinet.
They had no use for the overstuffed couch and dining room set.
I’m like that here. I have no space or need for a dining room set, let alone china. I’d be happy to score an old warehouse or gas station, put in a kitchen, bedroom, and office, and use the bays for my projects, or even hang out space.
I inherited a ton of stuff in the divorce that I didn’t want, nor did I need. It’s taken a few years to get rid of it all. Most of it donated, a ton else just simply had the junk people take.
So as far as the garage goes, Here’s mine:
The shelves on the right have parts and chemicals mostly, as well as storage for coolers, and other useful stuff. There’s a shelf on the left that has power tools and car parts – like oil, filters, headlight sets, that kind of thing. I keep 2-3 oil changes for the bike and the car in stock.
I’ll be weeding through it when it gets colder. The problem is that I have a lot of parts from owning a house that I’ve kept, for whatever reason. It all needs to take a powder, to be honest.
My third bedroom is mostly storage, and there’s stuff in my office that needs going through as well. By the end of the year, I’ll be a lot leaner.
Inspected By Pat 
I’ve been trying to get two construction trash bags of stuff out the door every week. Some weeks I do, some I don’t. Male a trip to the dump every month or 6 weeks. Got a bunch of e-waste including some now dumb smart-TVs.
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Good on you! I am having a similar struggle but on a larger scale, as I couldn’t bear to get rid of some of the things. When my mom passed 10 years ago, I donated most of the contents of your house yet still had a huge pile left over. What’s left has sat in my garage since then, mostly untouched. I finally realized or decided that if I haven’t touched something in ten or so years, it needs to go.
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From time to time I ponder the literal TONS of crap at my mother’s place. Once I hear of her passing, there will be two calls. One to the coroner. The other, to order a HUGE dumpster.
Sad really… and I’m trying to thin out crap here but it’s non too easy.
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Living 45 miles from the nearest hardware/big box/grocery/specialty stores I have a lot of stuff accumulated. I use it when building, fixing or growing things around the home.
I also have acreage and White people around so a lot of the stuff is out of sight but not locked up, weather is the biggest cause of shrinkage in the swamp.
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