I just came across this article on the  D3 arts collective and thought "Wow, these awesome people are working on a project a lot like mine, I should hang out with them." According to the interview, they formed their group in order to "study humans' attachments to objects."

They seem to be more focused on the disposal (distribution) side of getting rid of objects and more flexible about how they represent the object. In a way, they and I are looking at the same thing, from a similar perspective, with opposite methods.

Also, D3 is working on specifically "emotionally burdensome" objects. And I've ended up more with objects that people found to by physically burdensome but emotionally still relevant. 

Their archive is beautifully documented and reminds me a little of my favorite museum (The Museum of Jurassic Technology obvs) in its' riffing on collection and documentation traditions.