Donation organizations will come to you to collect it. Box it up and call one of them! Don’t send something someone would like to a landfill! Pyrex is collectible.

Don't throw it out. Donate it or put it in a consignment shop. When I lost all of my cooking equipment and dishes I went to the stores like goodwill and NAM and bought some nice stuff other people had donated. I got some nice old Pyrex and corning ware. It was a life saver because at the time it's all I could afford. And I use it all the time.

You've got 4 little kids and a family to run. I wouldn't think twice about tossing anything into your dumpster you don't have use for if that's the most expedient thing to do. Your house doesn't need to be a holding area to keep what's otherwise unwanted (by you) junk out of a landfill. Nor should you feel emotionally pressured or have guilt feelings about jettisoning clutter.

If some of the items trigger good memories, take a photo of them before tossing into the dumpster. Digital images take up much less room.

One of the two people in my household needlessly hangs on to things beyond an acceptable point in time. There's no better feeling for me than loading up a car with unneeded stuff and unloading it at the dump. I'll take a 10 second look to see if a detour to one of the thrift shops in town, is warranted, but only if I have time. If I'm not sure, or don't have time, it goes to the dump. I'm guilt free. Clothes and fabric items - different story, those go to the shelter or other orgs, if they're useable. Otherwise, those too go to the dump

By the way, the term "collectible", applied to stuff of a similar type that is unused and no longer needed, is a euphemism for clutter.

We de-cluttered pretty well five years ago when we downsized. But we kept all our Iron Mountain Stoneware. My in-laws lived near the factory and we bought many 'seconds' on our visits over the years. This past week we hauled all the boxes down from the attic, opened and sorted them by pattern. Our spare bedroom floor is almost completely covered! This coming week I'll add in all the stoneware we currently have in use. Photographs of our complete inventory. Then the fun part -- deciding which pieces to keep out for daily use. Followed by packing up the rest until it's time to switch up daily use pieces again.

I like to do a deep cleaning a few times a year,but I dont have a lot of stuff to declutter. My collectibles are also useful. Most of my pink and hearts are kitchen related and get used a lot. SO has a bunch of "stuff" that needs to be removed. But it's his stuff and I don't bother it,and it doesnt really bother me. He gets to it a little at a time. He got rid of an old mower,grill and fridge the other day. The only thing that piles up and gets on my nerves is boxes. When something comes in,I like to break the box down and put it in the trash immediately. He INSISTS that he wants to burn them and sometimes uses them for other things,but for the most part they stack up and up and up and he seems like he is blind to them. Only when I start to throw them away does he go back into "i am going to burn those"mode. Then. Burn. Them. PLEASE.

Also, our old washer and dryer is just sitting in my kitchen. He keeps telling me he wants to move them to our other house or sell them,but there they sit. In my kitchen. I guess he thinks they are part of the decor now. They are out of the way, but still,there is a washer and dryer in the kitchen.

Getting rid of things that take up space, physical and mental, is a win. The landfill is not going to suffer unduly.

Photograph Cabbage Patch dolls and anything else mildly sentimental and then out it goes. I like to play loud music while I purge things (papers, books, and magazines are my poison,) so I go quickly and don't overthink.

I like "things," but things stuffed in attics, unused and unseen are useless. Space, ease of cleaning, ease of moving, these things are far more valuable than clutter.

PS Forget about the whole spark joy paradigm. If you are not using it, or looking at it, it may as well not exist, so dump it. Of course you can store a few things for later use, seasonal decorations, children's toys, family papers, but in total, it should be just a few boxes.

I take whatever I can to a donation place and throw the rest out.

I had made a lot of progress since about December or so. That has come to a screeching halt with everyone home again. I have three bedrooms upstairs and have one freshly painted and occupied, one ready to paint, but no paint. And one in significant decluttering stage to finish being emptied and then painted. The attic needs to be cleaned out, but with my college kid home, I have no place to put the stuff while I sort. He's living in the gameroom and playroom areas and thoroughly enjoying it. I had put his furniture there while I was cleaning and switching up bedrooms. I never anticipated this.

"I wouldn't think twice about tossing anything into your dumpster you don't have use for if that's the most expedient thing to do. Your house doesn't need to be a holding area to keep what's otherwise unwanted (by you) junk out of a landfill. Nor should you feel emotionally pressured or have guilt feelings about jettisoning clutter."

Sorry but I cannot endorse the concept of just tossing usable but unwanted and non-biodegradable stuff into a landfill. I thought most of this country had passed beyond that stage of having no concerns about the environment and what we leave for the future! Reduce, reuse, recycle should be the watchword. Donate whatever you can and that is still usable to a thrift store, homeless shelter or wherever else they can be recycled....not just toss into the garbage to be dumped in a landfill!!

btw, 'collectibles' is NOT just another name for clutter! It may be for those that prefer a minimalist lifestyle but not everyone does and some older household goods are considered desirable and valuable to various individuals.

It goes without saying that anything you can give to Goodwill/Salvation Army, et al, should go there. What is leftover gets tossed. As someone who helped run a nonprofit's thrift shop, be aware that loads of what you think is going to be sold gets dumped by the shops if it cannot or does not sell.

My wife has done volunteer work for a thrift shop supporting a social welfare organization for over 25 years. I have an inside view of what happens. What most people think of as "charitable giving" boils down to little more than leaving their landfill-bound trash at a closer location, one that doesn't charge a fee as most dumps do. Goodwill and other junk receiving operations send truck-fulls of loads to dumps every week.

We're thoughtful about the environment, to a point, but neither compulsive nor guilty. Those who want to be haughty about it are welcome to do so.

IMHO we have become a very greedy and wasteful society. Like Gardengal said, if we can reuse something you'd think the young generation (and anyone for that matter) would be on board with the concept. One person's junk can be another person's treasure. I have been in very bad Salvation Army or Thrift Stores and very good ones. Perhaps, because ours are very good my opinion may differ from someone else.

My kitchen is actually a little more cluttered- I have a space elsewhere for the bread maker and pizza cooker but right now they are staying in the kitchen because I am on a pizza making kick.

I still make my bed every morning so the bedroom looks tidy, just because there are no people in and out is no reason to let things go.

Those who buy new items instead of reusing or buying used items create jobs and stimulate economic activity. I can't imagine people should feel guilty about doing that. Isn't this a personal choice that at either extreme should be guilt and shame free?