I am 60 and my husband will turn 60 next month. I don't know whether we'll downsize at some point but what I definitely do want to do is get rid of a lot of 'stuff' as I feel that it's really unfair to leave this to our children. We both have hoarding tendencies (for reasons of sentimentality) but, on top of that, we have been very lazy over the years about throwing things away. I also brought back a lot of stuff from my parents' house including what appears to be every card, postcard and letter that I ever received! I can't bring myself to just dump it all without looking at it. I have to read everything, which has been quite enjoyable and interesting, although I am disappointed to read the many complaints about what a dreadful correspondent I was! I marvel at how much people wrote letters, sometimes quite long letters, right into the 1980s. My husband and I have been discussing this. We think that as students and young adults we didn't have phones or easy access to phones and that telephone calls were expensive - or resisted by our parents, hence all the letters and cards making arrangements, thanking me for visits and hospitality and generally letting me know what was going on in their lives.