I have a 1959 Elements of Style – the first version including EB White. My HS best buddy turned college BF’s grandfather gave it to me, knowing I was a huge fan of EBW’s essays.
Never getting rid of that book!
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Put 4 lamps on Buy Nothing yesterday and have people interested in all of them.
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I very aggressively went through my two filing cabinets today. I have narrowed down all that paperwork to only one small file box worth of stuff. I have a huge box of paper destined for a charity shredding event this weekend. The old cabinets themselves are headed to the town metal scrap yard tomorrow.
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Somehow there was a shelf in a closet I had yet to go through. A few boxes of photos and a lot of negatives (oh they smell so bad). A box of old eyeglasses (FYI - they accept them at Wal-Mart optical locations for the Lions club eyeglass program)
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Just collected all my coins that I have saved over the years. They were in a few different places and include foreign ones, bicentennial quarters, stuff like that. It will be a pretty big job going through them. Guess what, I checked on line, a used bicentennial quarter is worth 25 cents!
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Take them to a Coinstar kiosk. They spit out the foreign coins for you to figure out. There’s no fee for using Coinstar if you chose the eGift Card option. I chose to get an Amazon gift card once upon a time.
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With oodles of time since I retired I’ve been going through the toys and games that were stored in our attic and selling some of them online (mostly Mercari, a couple EBay). I’ve made about $450 so far. People will pay for certain Lego mini figures in particular. It probably helps that I’m looking to declutter and pass things on so I price them relatively low.
My 3 boys went through most of the popular toy stages of the early 2000s - Thomas, Legos, Power Rangers, Transformers, etc. and I apparently saved all of them. Leading my son, who has been clearing out the attic for me, to snark “I can’t wait to have kids so I can save every single toy they ever played with.”
I’ve also been donating to thrift stores ones that don’t have much value or are too big to entice people to pay for shipping. And keeping one container with Fisher Price type toys and one or two examples of each trend.
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My attic sounds a lot like yours, but I doubt I will try to sell anything. I once advertised a bike trailer for pulling kids. A lady came and said she liked it, how much did I want for it. I told her she could have it for free if she took a bunch of other stuff too. She was very excited - saved her a fair amount.
ETA - I think trying to sell is a great idea, I just don’t have the patience for it.
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Went to the coin dealer with just a sample of stuff - he cashed in my dollar coins and 50 cent pieces (for face value of over $90). Came home to sort through the rest of my coins and stamps to go back to him next week. He has a coin sorter right there in the place.
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Thank you! I schlepped a jar of coins through a move four years ago, and after reading your post, I was inspired to find a Coinstar near where I’m meeting a friend for lunch on Monday. Perfect!
ETA: now I just have to find them! lol on me
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The men’s club at my synagogue just announced they’re having a yard sale in August. Woohoo! Will take the stuff I was going to give away on Buy Nothing and take it to the yard sale instead, where it’ll make some $$ for our shul’s sad operating budget.
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Thanks for the suggestion - I cashed in my coin bucket for an amazon gift card!
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Had my husband go through the many jars of stuff on our “work bench”. Tons of nails, screws, etc. going to the town scrap metal pile. Basically cleared out the whole thing- not much to keep.
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A business in town is collecting clothing and sundries for Maui relief. I’m going through my drawers and closets right now and finding lots of nearly new and gently worn clothes to donate.
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Moving product today. Someone posted in our community group that they are a new teacher. I had lots of construction paper, brand new and barely used pencils, note cards, random other stuff that now has a good home.
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We are operating on “garbage cans a week” or “trunk full a week” at the moment due to a pending move.
H did a “metal run” - all sorts of odd item pieces of metal he kept in the garage….filled half his good sized SUV trunk - and we netted $30! LOL
Yesterday I stumbled upon a community waste collection day - you have to drive to it and get in line but today’s event allowed any latex paint, old tv’s, computer’s, etc. We got rid of a large tv, LOTS of leftover paint and an old air conditioner.
Only 99.999999998% stuff left to go! 
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They should check in with where they are sending it. Most of the donation sites say no clothes.
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Just when I am positive I have been in every nook and cranny in my house I find a well hidden corner of my closet with belts, crutches, and a bad step ladder. Crutches went to local first aide squad the other stuff went in the trash.
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We moved into our current house almost 11 years ago. I was really smug about all the clutter I got rid of when we moved here from our previous house (25 years in that one). But now I’m realizing I’ve got stuff in this house that also needs to go. Oy. I need to start getting serious about that.
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House is almost under contract - did serious clean out of work room and garage - old sports equipment, etc.
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