Thanks Patricia. very helpful idea.

Donate them to Goodwill or Vietnam Veterans.

Big Brothers Big Sister BBBSFoundation.org they will come to your home and p[ick it up. Schedule online. Although right now no organizations are accepting donations like that/ But my stuff is all packed and in the garage ready to go the doorstep as soon as they reopen

I donate them.

First, stop buying "stuff" & tell friends & family to curtail this kind of gift giving. Some things need to be thrown out...broken, torn & cracked items for example as well as dusty old fake flower arrangements. If you are up for selling, post items on your neighborhood web site (like next-door.com). Ours has an "items for free section" & porch pick-up. Have a yard sale & make a few bucks. Goodwill, thrift stores, consignment shops...the easiest & fastest way to purge.

Four boxes, one for keeper items to use every day, one to put things in that can be used in other rooms, one to donate, and one to throw in the trash. That will get rid of half of it and help you find the things you love and want to use and enjoy.

Repeat in every room, do one room a week, and eventually you will be done and your house will probably have a whole new look......

Get rid of anything that's broken. Place the pieces you really care about on display or in a china cabinet. Allow one shelf or box for things you might want to rotate. Donate the rest.

Habitat for Humanity!

On a nice day, and when the forecast is good for a few days (so stuff doesn’t get ruined) you can put out anything at the end of your driveway/by the curb, and it will get taken. The key is to put a big “FREE” sign out, so people feel comfortable looking and taking.

I have been successful getting rid of huge items (a corner fireplace mantel) and tiny ones (lumpy ceramic doodads my kids made!) this way.

With covid, people will be less likely to take things from the curb.

I am a big donor to Goodwill. I have gotten rid of things that I felt were redundant or to which I had no strong attachment. Follow your heart, with a little help from your head.

Put stuff to donate in the garage for now and save it to donate later.

In many locations, charities aren't able to deal with donations right now (reduced staff as well as having to decontaminate everything), and people stuck home are doing a lot of decluttering so the issue is magnified.

When conflicted about purging, I always here my mother's wise words: "You've enjoyed it for awhile, now let someone else enjoy it." Helps me to let go.

Sell it on eBay or other on-line sites.

I go thru our house often. First, I enjoy it..put some music on, sing and dance around a little. I have a china cabinet where I keep sentimental things. And those have to be *sentimental* like squeeze my heart. Some things I feel I need to keep for a certain length of time until it seems ok to let go. I go thru cupboards/closets at least three times a year. Some things that I would have multiple of-if I keep one, the rest can go. I pulled out all the really nice silver my gramma gave me when we got married 18 years ago that *she* had put away from who knows when and never used-so we use it now, b/c it's just silly to save things and not appreciate them. I've got stuff sitting that I put off taking to be donated. That'll learn me to wait eh? But, I detest things sitting everywhere, and love how satisfyingly ahhhh it feels to open up a drawer and see things organized, or walk into a room and not have things sitting all over every open shelf etc.

So many of these old fashioned things just don't have a place in our modern life.

If you can use them, I say go ahead and use them. If they break, so be it.

Some of them are high maintenance.

After you have gotten rid of them you won't miss them.

Right now is a bad time to try to get rid of things.

I think that, when this crisis eases up, there is going to be less of this type of doodad stuff around to buy. The supply chains for cheap clutter stuff have tightened up and I hope they don't return.

If you only keep them and store them somewhere for some use that never comes, get rid of them. Some can be simply trashed. Most of that stuff has no resell value.

And, do let your friends and family know that you don't want anymore of anything. All of this nonsense gift giving business creates a lot of clutter, junk, and landfill.

It requires minutes, hours, or days of your life to earn the income to buy things that are a real pain to get rid of once you realize how truly lacking it is in value to your life. If we paid for things in terms of hours of our life, we would probably think more before we bought anything.