![]() ![]() instead of sending it directly to the dump, Donate, resell, or recycle our stuff, as appropriate.instead of forcing us to haul it out to the curb, instead of cherry-picking from our stash, Take all of the clutter we wanted removed.But much of what we wanted to clear out was not only usable but easily would have value to other people. ![]() Maybe the two of us could have gotten that love seat and recliner out of the basement, but it would have been a major pain.įinally, some of our junk was simply that. But no charitable organization wanted to take them off our hands.Īnd other stuff was stuck. Some of it was moveable - like my husband’s old fish aquarium and a massive painting he had purchased at a discount back in the day. A skeeball table my husband had given me for Christmas the year we started dating! The list went on. The second-hand love seat that had graced my first apartment out of graduate school. The dining room set and recliner from his late, great-uncle. We had dropped boxes at Goodwill, given unused diapers to a local women’s shelter, and scheduled driveway pick-up for donations to the Salvation Army and Big Brothers Big Sisters.īut the big stuff we no longer needed (or wanted) as a married couple remained. Up until then, we’d done a decent job of donating the smaller stuff we didn’t want to organizations that would take it. We’d moved into our home a few years earlier, still toting plenty of possessions from before we were married. That was the thinking of my husband and me in mid-2018. Note: This post contains affiliate links. ![]()
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