When you have gathered a bunch of no-longer-needed items, do you donate to charity or hold a yard sale (or other)?

I set up the poll so that you can vote for more than one thing if you do it more than one way!!!

I'm procrastinating... LOL.

I lean more to the donating and taking the tax write off.

I'm not much for hanging out in the garage all day, and I don't think our HOA would look too highly on it.

yardsale then donate what you don't sell...everyone wins!!

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Good answer!! If a person files an itemized return the tax write off is also good. However, the standard deduction is high enough we haven't itemized in years.

That's what we usually do. I'm lazy and already had put off from last Spring. Standard deduction is so high that itemizing never does us any good either. So yard sale really is a better option...

We hold a huge garage sale every year. It is a ton of fun. We look forward to it all year. We put boxes somewhere and toss stuff in all year long.

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Our neighborhood holds an annual garage sale and I haven't done one in 10 years! I itemize it all, take a picture and let our tax guy figure it out. We get the tax write off and it is more than you'd make selling it and way less work!

Lisa

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"It's not having what you want,
It's wanting what you've got"

All of the above. It's a very complicated process....LOL

We do one yardsale (sometimes two) per year. Valuable items or sellable online, etc items get brought back in, the balance goes to the Salvation Army.

Clothing, I consign at a shop run by a woman I used to work with 20 years ago. They are quite picky about what they accept, so the rest is either donated to the Salvation Army or lately, I have been sending gently used clothing to various relief efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We do itemize deductions (state income tax, RE taxes, personal property taxes, and mortgage interest make it worthwhile for us), so Salvation Army donatins are written off. The donations directly to people and/or troops are not, because they aren't charities.

cj/

P.S. I asked about Sunday yardsales a while ago....we sold $250 worth of stuff, so I would say it was an OK day!

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

I usually sell then donate the rest too, but this last time I did something a little different. We all sold what we could and then DH and I brought it all home and put it at the end of the road with a big "FREE" sign on it. It was gone by the next morning! Now we put everything at the end of the road, people are taking ANYTHING, I couldn't believe it! Yeah, you don't get the tax write off, but that's ok, it's still fun.

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"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~ Bernard Meltzer

I never held a yard sale!!! too much work ,so I either Freecycled(less and less ,because people are rude and forget the simple thank you and don;t even bother to be on time!!!!).
so I call goodwill once a year,and drop off things here and there in their boses....

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By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends

I am lazy so I donate. Yard sales seem like too much work.

I let family go thru it first .
Anything left over gets donated

Our church has a food bank and a thrift shop. Anything that they can't use for the people in need can go to the thrift shop.

I usually give away stuff to friends/coworkers/relatives that I know can use the items. Just yesterday, I gave a coworker 2 pairs of snowpants, shoes and some other clothes that will fit her son this winter. She has 4 kids and I know it helps.

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Donna

If it's a lot of stuff, I hold a yardsale and what doesn't sell, I give it to Goodwill. That way I make money and have the tax write-off, too !!

this is what we do as well

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Freecycle it

I donate our stuff.

I feel like since we are so blessed to be able to buy "new" stuff that I am happy to be able to donate our "old" stuff

I do both. I usually have one or two yard sales a year and I get sick of the leftover boxes of stuff so I go through them once again, throw out what no one will want and donate the rest.

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Cecilia

"We must love them both--those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

I do both.

My son's clothes I bring to work and put them in the breakroom with a sign to take whatever you want. I've never taken anything back home - it all goes.

Anything else I have a thrift sale. In fact, we made over $3,000 on this year's sale. It's stockpile stuff as well as household. Anything left over after that that isn't good enough to save for next year goes to a local charity.