It's a multi-step process...

Like so many of us, our kids have trouble letting go of "stuff" once its outlived its usefulness. It's more pronounced for Amy, just because she has more stuff. She had another purge recently, of this stack of books - she wasn't ready to get rid of them, just didn't want them on her bookshelf anymore. So I bought her another underbed storage box (her third) to store them until she's ready to really let them go. We've also got another bin of her books in our office closet, awaiting their fate. (That bin has the Rainbow Fairy books that she loved so very much, but for a parent were soooo tedious to read [the two friends in the books didn't go to the same school but they were seemingly always on some kind of break so they could be together, and the stories themselves were pretty much the exact same in every single book [and there are dozens of them]. But boy, did she love those books!)

In the basement we've got a big container of stuffed animals that are in this same holding phase. I guess one day we'll get back to it and maybe then we'll cull the herd one more time and see how it goes.