One more suggestion. See if you can find some college age kids. We happen to have two nieces who were glad to have our stuff. We borrowed a big trailer from a friend and made two trips with a piled up trailer and heaped truck bed full of all sorts of stuff. I told them they could keep it, sell it, give to friends etc.
So far they have kept everything.
Books went to the library for their book sale.
we sold some stuff on craigslist which was a pain, but we had some big items we did not want to give away or donate.
Funny story, DH put a canoe up and said he would deliver. Someone contacted us from about 500 miles away for a $500 canoe wanting us to deliver. So be careful how you word stuff. someone ended up buying it three miles away.
I made about two dozen trips to goodwill (they come out and empty your car for you and give you a tax receipt) and every week we had a huge pile of garbage. Usually we have less than one bag of garbage in the bottom of the pail, and suddenly we had four or five huge bags a week.
We just spent five weeks cleaning and purging before our house went on the market, the last house we sold went the first weekend and we decided to clean the house out first. especially since we'll be paying for the move and losing at least half our space.
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