Brought a car full of stuff to the church’s rummage sale collection yesterday and it looks like I will have another car full for tomorrow - there is always more (at least it seems that way)
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My husband just exclaimed that he can’t believe how much stuff we got rid of in the past 3 days.
Found somebody to take garden tools, found a home for my mother-in-law’s old china tea set, brought old outdoor furniture to the metal scrap yard in town, gave away old board games to the library, brought a bag of clothes to the local bin, and loading up the car for trip 2 to the local church rummage sale.
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It is SUCH a great feeling!
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except I am exhausted - all I do is load the car and unload the car - repeat
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Keep your eye on the prize! You need to do this to move!!
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I lie down to sleep at night and immediately think of something else I should have brought to the rummage sale or need to go through. UGH
We are in a similar spot trying to reduce before moving items to a home we recently bought. Main goal, getting current house ready to list! And let me tell you, we are PAYING THE PRICE for someone in the family…(looking at you H!) not listening or making effort for the past three years of begging from me to start a clear out. It is very overwhelming - and guess who is the most overwhelmed? Husband!!!
Get those “bags a week” in motion as soon as you can - don’t wait until you HAVE TO!
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My husband and I started “cleaning out” when our daughter went off to college leaving us with an empty nest (that was 2012). We will be moving to an apartment which we have already furnished. So we don’t need any house stuff (tools, etc.) and we don’t need any of the big items (furniture, decorative stuff, etc.) I know we will end up with a huge 1-800-got-junk bill at the end. Nobody is going to want stuff like our 30 year old sectional sofa. dining room set, mattresses, and box springs. I have looked into the local agencies that take stuff - Salvation Army, Goodwill, Veterans, etc. and they all require us to lug the stuff either to the first floor or to the curb. So much of it is too heavy for us to move an inch (let alone down flights of stairs and to the curb.)
You might be able to find somebody on NextDoor to lug stuff down to the curb. There is a guy on our NextDoor who makes frequent dump runs too.
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Yes, I called Habitat for Humanity the other day - we like donating to them to sell for their fundraising - they will not enter a home - picks ups have to be outside or in an open area like a garage.
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The homebuyers don’t want anything we have (not even perfectly good outdoor furniture - when they are coming from an apartment?). I am down now to the hardest stuff, the large furniture, I posted on our local facebook sell stuff page. Hopefully, I get some bites. Every single charity I check on locally, will either not enter the home or want everything on the first floor. I have heavy furniture upstairs in the bedrooms, no way I can move them an inch, let alone downstairs.
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My son-in-laws moved my parents furniture down to the 1st floor before Habitat came. Maybe look on Facebook and hire some teens 
Good work so far and future good luck!
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We are also in the process of moving and we had a very, very old (still working!) freezer an aunt gave us probably 30 years ago - seriously this think was def 50+ years old. Through our local FB age I reached out to a scraper guy - if it was outside he’d take it for free, inside (basement) he’d charge $25 - $25? I was so happy I would have paid more to get rid of it!!! We also ended up giving him some metal stuff from our garage as well. Wonderful.
I’m finding on our neighborhood page that people like FREE things but not so much paying for things. :). I started posting some items in great shape- but not needed by us - on a suburb page near us where people probably have more disposable income. Seem to have better luck. Today someone is coming to pick up a 5+ foot tall date palm tree that the owners of the house we bought left - it is so huge and wide that we don’t want to lose that floor space! Hopefully by the end of the day I’ll have $55 in my pocket and they will have a good buy on a plant that’s planter is probably worth more than $55!
Our realtor the other day also told us that her son and buddy (college sophomores) have started a business through her realty company where they are “bodies for hire” - not skilled but they do thinks like move stuff from attics/2nd floors to first floor, power wash decks, cut grass, rearrange furniture…all kinds of stuff. She said they are making something like $2k a week between the 2 of them!
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We’ve just started. One more still at home but wanting to be ready when S24 leaves to be able to make some decisions about when we list this house!
Shredded so much paper this past week. Literally 8 garbage bags full of shredded paper. Thankfully it all fit in the garbage cans for pick up.
We live in a split level, and when DH and I discussed what we would definitely want to take with us to the next home - we only came up with two items: his desk and our dining room table/chairs. There is so much to go through and figure out what we can throw out, what we can donate and what the kids will probably want to take as they start their own homes.
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Nice progress! So excited you’ve found your new home 
I mostly give away stuff for free in social media. But… that sometimes means people think it is OK to not show up for pickup, very annoying (especially if something that is clunky and can’t stay outside).
I’ve bought things now and then. LOL - one time I was so overwhelmed by the feisty dog at the door that I forgot to give the $20 in my pocket for a travel purse. Back at the car I remembered and returned to the front door to pay. (It was somebody I knew a little bit through NextDoor - we ran together once… she was going to let it slide.)
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Free vs. “Almost-Free”. I am forever amazed when trying to download things on our local FB Marketplace. It might be a $50 item (new), that I try to sell for $5 (to avoid an onslaught of replies). Nearly no takers. Post for free? Onslaught!
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Around here Free means porch pickup. That is so much more flexible than setting a time to meet/pay… tis a popular option.
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Plant sold for $60 and is GONE! 
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Big victory today. A friend who works with an organization that settles refugees locally, will take all of my carriable stuff (lamps, small bookcases, side tables, etc.)
Feel great about this. Now, I still have the big furniture pieces to get rid of.
The car is loaded for another trip to the church that is collecting for a rummage sale tomorrow.
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Yay!! Check with other groups. Our kiddo furniture was quickly adopted and carried out of the house by a bunch of muscular Eastern European guys who took it to furnish homes for recent immigrants.
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