Being emotional for the moving is only natural. You cry over the memories made in the house and the struggles you shared in it. You cry and that is normal. But if you cry for no reason at all is something you should be concerned of. It must be a clear sign of moving stress. And what is more stressful than throwing things that have sentimental value for you?   Throwing things will never be a problem if you are not that sentimental. However, sentimental people would want to keep an old and useless rocking chair that happened to be a very first investment from a first job. Will you do the same and be sentimental? Better follow these tips for easier throwing out of your sentimentally valuable but useless things :   -       Be objective. See an object as a thing that is either useful or useless. Useless things should be given away, sold, donated, or thrown away. Useful things should be kept with you when you move.   -       A piece. If you can't really throw that useless rocking chair, maybe you can just get a piece of it, say its foot, so you can still carry with you its memory.   -       Consider size. It doesn't hurt to keep a necklace or a keychain but it will be a big issue to keep a hopeless-for-repair cabinet. Get rid of those big and useless things and simply get a piece of them for their sentimental value.   Things are nothing but things. What is valuable is not actually the sentimentally valuable item but the memory it carries. So, why don't you just keep the memory and get rid of that junk?