Well, I'm in the purge mode right now. Fortunately we have a rental property where we can store some stuff, especially tools for the rental property. That said, as far as personal stuff goes we have storage closets in the hallways of our rental property that should be for the tenants. They won't be, at least not one of them. We will appropriate it to store those thing that really are irreplaceable, pictures, family heirlooms that I don't want to give to my sisters and some things like that. This will be a very few things. The closet is only 30 inches wide and deep by 8 feet high so it's not much. As to the non-climate controlled storage, if it's padded furniture it won't work, fine woodwork not too good either as the heat, cool, moisture cycles won't do the finishes any good. However for certain stuff it's probably fine, especially if it's in some kind of tote that critters and bugs can't get into. Just my two cents.

Here's a somewhat philosophical perspective on "stuff", we all own things that make our lives easier or more enjoyable. We have one thing that does that, our motorhome. Yes of course many accessories, a portable BBQ, an extra door step, a patio mat, a tow dolly and a car. You get the idea. After 30 plus years of marriage our furniture was old, except two comfortable dining room chairs. They are at the table in our RV. The stuff we are lugging around are photographs and memories. I know, it can be scanned.
Within months of starting our new lifestyle it became time for my Mom to move into assisted living. We had to empty out another house, got about $800 from an "estate" sale and another $300 from the guy who would take the rest away. All nice stuff, when my parents got it 20 years ago. Hardly anybody is interested in those things now. Just some of her bedroom furniture got moved to her new place.
She got a new recliner and said "what more do I need?" Mom is in good physical shape, with mild dementia. She had a reverse mortgage and lived comfortably. The house went to the bank.

In contrast, my mother-in-law still lives in her house. With the help of home health aides. 90 year old Nanny is sharp as a tack, but her body is worn out. Her eye sight and hearing very diminished. She has all her stuff. When her time comes each of her four daughters will get 1 fourth of the houses value.

We read on this forum that the regret of most was not starting sooner. I retired at 59.5 and by 60 we were on the road. That was a year and a half ago.

So do what you want with your stuff, you can't take it with you. We didn't. (not counting two chairs )

Just my thoughts.

Bill

My vote is to purge it all, except for what you are taking with you. We have begun the process, and it was hard at first, but it much easier once you you start letting go of things. What have we accumulated over the years on some things has become things we have gotten used to, but if we were to do it again... well frankly... our tastes have changed. It is certainly possible they will change more by the time we are ready to exit this lifestyle. We can't justify coughing up 100-150 dollars a month for years only to decide that we want something different when we would pull it out of storage. I did that in the military... never again.  Our experience... your mileage may vary.

We went with getting rid of it all, except for what we wanted in the RV.  Neither of our sons were interested in much of what we had, so once the selling to family and friends was done, garage sales were done, all the rest was donated.  Even if we do sell our RV and move into an apartment, there isn't much we need in the way of furniture or appliances, so nothing like that was needed.  Besides, we couldn't have afforded climate controlled storage, so any furniture would have been subject to rotting or destruction from mice.  After all, most everything in life is stuff because one can't take a U-Haul to the cemetery.

A funny side comment with regards to moving into an RV, the wife kept saying that she thought that we were going to be too heavy with "all the stuff she was taking to the RV."  I told her to put in what we wanted, and before taking the RV to our first "home site," I would get it weighed and if necessary, we could purge some more.  Got a contract on the house and property, so I hooked up the RV and headed for our new site, by way of a feed store in town.

I was almost afraid to tell her that she still had capacity for another 760 pounds in the trailer.

Terry