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Emptying out the five-bedroom house where you’ve lived for 30 years is a little like giving birth. As soon as it’s over, your mind wants to black out the memory. In our case, the process was mercifully quick. We had signed a lease on a cool loft apartment not far away and had two months to get our house ready to sell. Or put another way, we had 60 days to clean up our mess—one day for every 180 days of accumulation. That would mean, in the end, going through every item that lived in our house. Every book, shoe,...