That show and "Hoarders" inspires me, too. I know houses are priced according to square footage and seeing people use up a large portion of that footage as an in-house landfill just bothers me.
One thing I like about our house is it has no basement and no attic. Our 3 car garage contains our three cars, a ladder and 10 jugs of water. That is all. No boxes stacked up anywhere, no rooms used for storage. I don't believe in "storage," if we aren't using it we aren't keeping it. Someone else can have it.
We decided to get new porch furniture this year so I set the old rockers out by the mail box and they were gone in one hour.
I've only watched one episode of
Hoarders & that was it. Not much later after watching, Hubby & I lived that to a lesser degree, when we moved his sister out of their mothers house after she passed because SIL was at the point of not able to get around with all the stairs inside & out. MIL kept a nice neat house, but the two rooms she inhabited was packed with 30-gal bags of clothes she was unable to wear, clothes all over the floor with pathways, home shopping purchases, etc. It was like walking through a door into the Twilight Zone
. In total, we filled our pick up truck with an 8' foot bed 6 times to the dump just from her rooms.
Up front before she moved into the new house, she was well aware of the rules that Hoarders 2.0 wasn't going to happen. The cousins, who helped us clean it up, said they wouldn't do that again & backed us up.
I love our basement. Furnace, washer/dryer, etc. is there. We have shelves up & everything has it's place & it's constantly being purged. Our attic is small & is right off the bedroom under the sloped roof where we can walk right in. I don't have a lot in there, but everything is in clear bins so we can see in them.
Like you, if we want to get rid of something, we sit it out at the end of the driveway & it's gone.
