Decluttering - what to ditch

[mikado1]

I've recently moved house and did a good bit of decluttering in the last year but know I'd like to really she'd what I don't need.
I've also cleared my parents home which was full of years and years of life, their parents' life etc. All of which they held on to tightly but none of which was ever looked at or in the case of items, enjoyed.
Obviously I need clothes and daily basics. I've stopped buying clothes and have given away a lot. I'm thinking of things now like books that I've read, even photos that aren't in albums. What paperwork do I need and what can I ditch?
Parents records and CDs, throw?
I really don't want things and they are taking up space in my head.

It's a difficult process sorting through parents' things. There's the nostalgia, the memories and then the guilt at discarding things that they enjoyed but you are not interested in. I found it was (and still is) a process and I've tackled it in chunks. I did decide to get rid of a lot of books that I knew I wouldn't read again and found Webuybooks type apps great. You might only get 10p per book but it adds up and it's easier than carting them to charity shops who can be inundated. With photos I've got rid of loads of scenery ones and if I don't know people, and duplicates. I've used local reuse FB pages and sold stuff as well as use charity shops. Do it in stages. Also, the webuybooks also taken CDs depending what they are.

Brilliant. Thank you so much.

Don't buy books. Join a library. You read them, they get the joy of dusting them.
Ditch photos that are out of focus; have people you don't recognise; random animals.
Sell vinyl records to a collector.
Going forward go digital with "paperwork".