If items are not thrown away, damaged or destroyed intentionally, people often allow them to become damaged through neglect. Instead of carefully storing items, they casually toss them in drawers, grocery sacks, shoe boxes, and on attic and garage shelves, where the items become dirty, bent, torn, damp, moldy, or otherwise damaged. Also, people leave items where direct sunlight can strike them, or close to fluorescent lights that fade their color. The congressman's career papers were sent to the garbage dump. Moving can be so awful that bodies become tired of packing and loading, and boxes are in short supply.
Harried movers are glad to throw away old materials that have no immediate usefulness.
Out go piles of unorganized papers, broken or unused items, and old stuff that seems more like clutter than anything valuable.