[manaboutown]

If you have a lot of time and depending upon where you live and your personality, eBay and Craig's List can work. An over 60 friend of mine remarried and she and her new husband have been taking their time downsizing. She has sold expensive fur coats, fine crystal, sterling silverware, St. John knits, paintings, fine furniture and more on both. She meets people in hotel lobbies, and parking lots at shopping centers, etc., with her husband and gets cash. To get rid of her old not-worth-much furniture and other items she posted on the "curb" part of Craig's List, put the old whatever out on the curb and it was always gone within a couple of hours.

When my aunt passed away I had to clean out her apartment fast. I found a local charity which sold used clothing and took a Ryder truckful there. I was told it sold within a few days. The Salvation Army, Goodwill and other charities will take the decent stuff.

Having moved many times once we did not want to move much furniture so we called a Catholic Church in a nearby town. Sure enough, some family's mobile home burned down and they got it all, beds, TV, etc. straightaway.

I have moved all over the country and have found, for example, what I had back east does not work out west or in the southwest. It has been fun buying locally appropriate furniture and redecorating wherever I went.