I keep my scissors for cloth items in my sewing basket. If anyone uses them for something other than cloth, I will harm them significantly. Maybe even with the cloth scissors. 
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The food shears stayed in the kitchen, cloth scissors in craft basket (no where near any drawers).
Iām talking about finding general purpose scissors (craft/paper) in multiple locations. Thankfully, Iāve found relatively few pairs of child scissors and child safe scissorsā¦but the number is not zero. I wish I could say there would be a purpose for them being all over the house, but I am pretty sure they were scattered everywhere due to people (cough my children cough) not wanting to put them away correctly, and then more scissors being purchased because scissors couldnāt be found easily.
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If they are craft ones - I suggest asking your local library if they can use them for their craft programs. I have been very successful donating all kinds of craft supplies to my local library.
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People in my house know that the penalty for using my sewing scissors is death by a thousand paper cuts (using the paper scissors)!
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NO ONE (at least no one who wants to live) touches my sewing scissors.
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Got rid of 5 of the 6 Buy Nothing items today. In addition, a friend is now growing a cut flower garden and she took an entire box of florist vases.
Now what will I get rid of next week?
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Dang, I need a few more small vases cause I keep giving mine away! 
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Related to this thread: When clearing out, I donāt fully understand the preference for ābuy nothingā groups over charities. I found that when I place free items on local neighborhood sites they are quickly claimed. But if I offer items at a severely reduced price, there would be few takers, and they often try to bargain (Really - You want to offer $4 for that $5 item that may cost $50 new?). And for either choice, you need to wait for the item to be picked up.
Itās far easier to donate (imho), and support a good cause. I like the smaller local organizations over the named ones, but thatās just a personal preference.
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@kjofkw -years ago I took some perfectly good items to a local thrift store and saw them tossed in the trash! I still take things to a ( different) thrift store but I love Buy Nothing.
Re: Buy Nothing -I donāt wait for anyone to pick up, the items are put out on my covered front porch and I go about my day.
Iām not interested in either making money from my things or a charitable deduction, just want to get rid of stuff.
I love knowing that what I get rid of will be used by others. One of the items I gifted yesterday on Buy Nothing was given to a friend ( I randomly selected her) and she told me all about how she planned to use the item and when.
YMMV
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People around here (especially in the neighborhood group like a Buy Nothing would be) really love free 
. Small item stuff is likely to sit on our neighborhood marketplace even when the prices is a few dollars. People want free!
My H and I have a 3 large bag hamper in one of our closets. We each use one for our laundry and then the middle one is for ādonateā. Clothes and small household items get dropped in there when we pinpoint them. When the bag is full, one of us takes to the local humane society thrift shop for donation. I prefer that method for smaller items and itās sort of a āone and doneā for several items.
Many ways to get rid of your stuff! The important thing is, GET RID OF YOUR EXTRA STUFF!! 
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I love using buy nothing. Clothing especially. We live in an area where there are pockets of poorer and newly arrived immigrants that need so much. Clothing is often tossed at charities so I like knowing it goes to someone who needs it. BTW Iām currently listing winter sweaters that no longer fit me and have several takers. I had takers for all of my previous listings. I really donāt need the write off. After this winter coats are next. I know they are needed. I leave items on my covered porch for pick ups.
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I have never used buy nothing. It was much easier to gather the various things I wanted to get rid of and cart them to the local church or other charity that were having rummage sales. When desperate, no local sales happening soon, I brought to Good Will or a local church thrift shop.
I know that these places will have a service come and collect all the stuff that does not get sold and supposedly that service works with other charities.
When we downsized 2 years ago, we got rid of hundreds of items. I could not imagine trying to list them all individually. (I some of these items were actually multiple items (like a set of china, etc.)
Winter coats are usually easy to get to a needy person. Many places where I lived in NJ did winter coat drives and gave them to homeless shelters, refugee agencies, etc.
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We have a dry cleaner (multiple locations) that collects coats from now to Nov 30. Last year I cleaned closets and gathers about 10 (nice) coats and went over to donate and I was 3 days late! So off to the thrift store they went but they were nice so Iām sure they were sold.
Iām doing it again (I have lots of coats, both parents have died and they have coats and my brother moved to Mexico and he had coats) and Iām going to be there by Nov 30 this year!
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My late husband had several winter coats and jackets as well as three pair of boots. One of the service companies I had here for some home maintenance was doing a collection and I happily donated them. They distribute the stuff to several charities/ shelters in our city.
This is the time to donate the winter outerwear. People start looking for/ needing a warm coat as soon as the weather starts turning colder. If you wait until around the holidays to clear them out itās too late .
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Winter coat donation question: I have 2 long dress coats from the 80ās - 90ās. I kept them all these years because they were VERY good (and expensive) coats that were given to me. BUT - both have HUGE shoulder pads (built into the design so canāt be removed without the coat shoulders looking goofy). Remember those? I hoped they would one day be fashionable again. Still waiting
Any suggestions?
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Well, I noticed young ladies in France, and the flight attendants on Lufthansa, were wearing jackets with shoulder pads. They may be coming backā¦
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If they look good on you, they never went out.
On occasion, I still wear my blouses that have soft shoulder pads. I think they give me an appearance of good posture/tailoring.
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Recent offerings from fashion-forward brands like Lāagence and Veronica Beard have some structured blazers with shoulder pads. So the shoulder pads must be back in fashion!
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My policy is get it out of the house however you can!
I have started donating to the Habitat for Humanity Restore - they wonāt take clothing, but just about anything else. And if you have bigger items like furniture or just a lot, you can schedule a pickup as long as the bigger items are in a garage or somewhere they donāt have to enter the house for.
I have a friend here in her early 30s who has become like a surrogate daughter - if I have nicer items I usually offer them to her first. If she canāt use them, she has friends who can. I had an ancient Chromebook that I wasnāt using, and now her son uses it for homework.
My biggest giveaway was an exercise bike in my basement - it was expensive and I never used it because it hurt my tushie lol. I had a plumber here to replace my hot water tank and he commented on how nice the bike was and I said on the spur of the moment āif you want it, itās yours.ā He and his son got it up the steps the same visit and it went to his cousin, who had wanted one for physical therapy. Win win!
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