Moving

What are the essentials to move from my old home to my new? I find myself doing filtering of my possessions big and small at many levels, with many categories... with hesitation now and then as to what is worth keeping. I gather lots of stuff for recycling and for giving thr needy. We don't need a lot really. We want and keep too much really. It is what we can renounce that brings us character, not what we gather.