The more storage space we have, the more we keep.
We justify holding on to a large number of things we don’t need simply because we have the room to hold them.
But with every additional thing, there’s a mental maintenance cost we need to pay. Even if that cost is small, the pennies add up.
Sometimes there’s value in having less storage space: it helps us discern which are the essential things and which are the things we can let go of.