The moving: not so minimal!

After we recently moved house, I find myself in a quite large and empty house,
together with quite a number of boxes.

The thing is, when you're all set in your home, with all your stuff distributed
around, you don't really have a clue of *how much* that is.  When you've start
opening the boxes, with the goal of finding a new place for everything ...well,
you *still* don't have a clue on how much stuff you've got, but it gets to be
worse, somehow.

I feel the urge of getting rid of everything at once.  I can't really do that
for two reasons:

1. This is not just my stuff, but also my family's.  I can't just throw away
   someone else's belongings.

2. Some of it would just appear again.  Case in point: knick knacks and other
   decorative objects, are making the house more cozy, and throwing them out
   makes little sense: more objects will take their place.

If anything, i think I can dispose of some books: we have plenty of them, and
some are pure garbage that will never be read again.  Some of them will never
be read in the first place.