Several options which worked for me.
After the kids and various friends had made their choices (the kids quite frankly wanted none of our "funky old furniture" and didn't understand that I/we thought they were "antiques!"), then it came down to the nitty-gritty!
I started with several hundred books, virtually none of which I wanted, though my late wife adored them all! There's a huge annual Book Fair in St. Louis which happily took the lot away (after I'd packed them, of course). I valued the total at $150; my accountant agreed that was reasonable, since many of them had been bought over the years at the same fair for 10-25 cents a piece!
Then, there was a local charity which operates a huge Thrift Store. They took nearly all the furniture I wasn't bringing with me. Some they gave me money up front. Some they took on consignment; I got 25% of what they sold it for.
Clothes went to Salvation Army.
Finally, I hired a guy who came in the day after I'd left. His mission was to take everything that was left behind and do with it what he wanted/could. Cost me close to $1,000 but I was so glad to get rid of the "junk!"
Some of it was hard! But, after six years in TV, I wonder why!?
SWR
