So many , Nicole.
I can totally relate to this.
I used to do this a lot more back in the day. But a couple of months, before I left the last place I was living in, I started downsizing all my stuff. I got rid of like three recycling bags or more of pictures, articles, artwork, all kinds of stuff. I have left boxes of old pictures and things at people's places in the past when I've had to move suddenly or gone to rehab, and never bothered going back to get them. Now that I'm older and more stable I have regret for these things. But I always just get into this mind frame of, It's not important. It doesn't matter. Sometimes I think it's because no one cares about me and holding onto them is a 'lie'. The last time I purged all of my stuff was because I felt that if I'm to be living in the 'moment' there was no point in holding onto mementos.