Maybe you won't feel the same way but I found that "freecycle" is wonderful!!! There's the whole culture built up around it of people who like to keep stuff out of the landfill, pass stuff on, pare down, simplify... and just people who *need* stuff but can't really afford to go buy it (hence we got a new dresser for free!)
Check it out. It's really pretty cool. I've gotten rid of a vacuum cleaner that sort of worked but needed some fine tuning, and some baby stuff - we've gotten a bike (which was too rusty to really fix for us anyway - that's one risk you take but hey, you're no worse off!), and a dresser.
You see all *kinds* of stuff there so you can probably get rid of almost anything.
Good luck. Really, you have my sympathies. We've been wanting to pare down too and also have more space (or more permanent space anyway) and that's *after* we got rid of a TON of stuff when we went on the road. We still have way too much in storage. Oh well. One box at a time as it were.
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Check it out. It's really pretty cool. I've gotten rid of a vacuum cleaner that sort of worked but needed some fine tuning, and some baby stuff - we've gotten a bike (which was too rusty to really fix for us anyway - that's one risk you take but hey, you're no worse off!), and a dresser.
You see all *kinds* of stuff there so you can probably get rid of almost anything.
Good luck. Really, you have my sympathies. We've been wanting to pare down too and also have more space (or more permanent space anyway) and that's *after* we got rid of a TON of stuff when we went on the road. We still have way too much in storage. Oh well. One box at a time as it were.