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<blockquote data-quote="AppleCori" data-source="post: 745240" data-attributes="member: 16024"><p>Your dining room looks great!</p><p></p><p>Such an improvement!</p><p></p><p>As for your front bedroom: the items you have in there served their purpose. They helped you cope with your mother’s passing. It was money well spent.</p><p></p><p>Marie Kondo would say that it is time to thank them for their service and let them go.</p><p></p><p>Do you itemize your taxes? If you do, donations of clothing and books are great write-offs. </p><p></p><p>How much money can you really get by selling the items on Facebook Marketplace or EBay? Is the money worth the time spent? Those are questions you need to answer for yourself. You definitely can just donate stuff, even if you don’t get s tax write-off. You could also split the difference—sell a few things that you can get a lot of money for and donate the rest. Give yourself permission to do with the items what is best for you and let them go. Stop beating yourself up over these things. It’s all “water under the bridge” so to speak. I wonder if having the items in your house is more of a burden to you that you know. Getting rid of them could be very freeing. Give yourself permission to donate as much as you want to and don’t look back. It sounds to me like you really don’t want to spend months of your life selling this stuff. Is it worth it? Is that what you want to do with your life?</p><p></p><p>I used to sell used homeschool items online, but I have switched to selling locally and donating/giving away more. The time spent wasn’t worth the money, to me. I have never regretted giving things away. I only sell high dollar stuff and give away/donate the rest.</p><p></p><p>As for the computers, I would probably get rid of them all and get a new one. They depreciate so quickly that I’m not sure it would be worth putting more money into old ones. Do you really need five computers, anyway? One reliable computer is better than five junked ones cluttering your space. Again, give yourself permission to just let them go.</p><p></p><p>None of the “stuff” is worth stressing out over. It is hard on your health, which is worth more than the money you might recoup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AppleCori, post: 745240, member: 16024"] Your dining room looks great! Such an improvement! As for your front bedroom: the items you have in there served their purpose. They helped you cope with your mother’s passing. It was money well spent. Marie Kondo would say that it is time to thank them for their service and let them go. Do you itemize your taxes? If you do, donations of clothing and books are great write-offs. How much money can you really get by selling the items on Facebook Marketplace or EBay? Is the money worth the time spent? Those are questions you need to answer for yourself. You definitely can just donate stuff, even if you don’t get s tax write-off. You could also split the difference—sell a few things that you can get a lot of money for and donate the rest. Give yourself permission to do with the items what is best for you and let them go. Stop beating yourself up over these things. It’s all “water under the bridge” so to speak. I wonder if having the items in your house is more of a burden to you that you know. Getting rid of them could be very freeing. Give yourself permission to donate as much as you want to and don’t look back. It sounds to me like you really don’t want to spend months of your life selling this stuff. Is it worth it? Is that what you want to do with your life? I used to sell used homeschool items online, but I have switched to selling locally and donating/giving away more. The time spent wasn’t worth the money, to me. I have never regretted giving things away. I only sell high dollar stuff and give away/donate the rest. As for the computers, I would probably get rid of them all and get a new one. They depreciate so quickly that I’m not sure it would be worth putting more money into old ones. Do you really need five computers, anyway? One reliable computer is better than five junked ones cluttering your space. Again, give yourself permission to just let them go. None of the “stuff” is worth stressing out over. It is hard on your health, which is worth more than the money you might recoup. [/QUOTE]
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