Thank you so much for linking my article "We Have Too Much Stuff" here. I also like the other link to Joshua Becker's site.

Realizing the sorting and cleaning (and yes, trauma) I had to go through with my parents' house and knowing I did NOT want to put my own children (and their spouses) through that was enough motivation for me to keep at the decluttering steadily over the past couple years. It's a constant effort to keep up or to get back to it, but so worth it when I can find things easily, clean faster, and feel visitor-ready when someone wants to stop by.

I've embedded the link for this story in mine so we can both encourage others.