Saying goodbye to your excess stuff is easy; finding it a new home is the challenge. Here’s how to sell, donate, and give away that which no longer sparks joy.
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Yeet it from your penthouse apartment in NYC and yell "for the people!" as you let it go?
aug 25, 2025, 10:06 pm • 5 0 • view
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aug 25, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Let's start with the orange thing in the white house, how do we get rid of that
aug 26, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks, the New Yorker. It's wonderful for you to be so in touch with the American people that you understand our primary problem is having way too much stuff and not knowing how to get rid of all of this stuff we have.
aug 25, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Interesting. This is such an old article yet it still gets attention. The best way to declutter is to never buy it in the first place. It’s also kinder to the planet.
aug 25, 2025, 11:58 pm • 8 1 • view
This is the advice I would have given my younger self. I also would have said no when my parents brought a truckload of their stuff to drop off before leaving for Florida.
aug 26, 2025, 12:49 am • 1 0 • view
That’s tough. Our parents think they are being thoughtful giving us their items.
aug 26, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
Their treasures should be our treasures ♥️
aug 26, 2025, 2:44 am • 1 0 • view
FYI, for the magazines more well-heeled readers, it’s patronizing to offer it to the maid.
aug 25, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
How many of our belongings can truly “spark joy” ffs?
aug 26, 2025, 5:28 am • 0 0 • view
In my apartment building, there’s a shelf next to the mailboxes that functions as an informal exchange. I’ve picked up candles and even a watermelon there. It’s not abused; people put out a modest amount of items and it doesn’t get cluttered.
aug 26, 2025, 7:37 am • 1 0 • view
Did you know that the lady who invented kon mari stopped doing it? I have stuff I have received as gifts such as mugs and ornaments and when I see them I think of the people who gave them to me. Most are not in my life anymore and I don't feel *joy*, I feel connection. In the age of ai: this is real
aug 25, 2025, 11:07 pm • 2 0 • view
If u need objects to think about someone, they’re not that important to u.
aug 26, 2025, 3:59 am • 0 0 • view
I think that is the point. I have forgotten many people I have once met or studied with since I don't have anyrhing from them or have them in my socials. My current blanket sheets are from my aunt and my coffee cup is from my first crush and it is nice to think about different people daily.
aug 26, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, my friends from 20 years ago some of whom are not even my fb friends or my big sister who does not talk to my family are not a big part of my life, that is correct. But once they have been and have liked me enough to give me birthday presents. I don't need the objects to think about them, silly
aug 26, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Just throw it away
aug 26, 2025, 3:00 am • 2 0 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
Don’t forget you could also ask family,friends,and neighbors, it can always be recycled,up cycle or reused,do not give a shiny coin to Chump’s economy , or the companies that are gouging us after covid,shamelessly posting record earnings,we live paychecks to paychecks! Survival Economics! #resist
aug 25, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Minimalist living is a privilege. Poor people have to hold on to things that are likely to be useful in the future, whether they "spark joy" or not. Read that again.
aug 25, 2025, 11:51 pm • 5 0 • view
Practical things aren’t the problem. U just need 1, not 5. Everyone can say no to mugs and tchotchkes. It’s the time to declutter that might be the luxury. Trauma also causes hoarding which may be more common with poorer people.
aug 26, 2025, 4:13 am • 1 0 • view
More entitled blather. On what planet can poor people afford an excess of anything? Why do you think yard/garage/tag sales are common among the working class? BECAUSE THEY HOPE TO MAKE A FEW MEASLY DOLLARS OFF STUFF THEY DON'T NEED! Seriously, check your privilege.
aug 26, 2025, 4:33 am • 1 0 • view
Im having a yard sale this weekend.
aug 26, 2025, 1:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Shoes?👠 haha
aug 26, 2025, 8:09 pm • 1 0 • view
FYI - my bona fides include being very poor. Reliant on food banks, LIHEAP, government grants, Medicaid for the kids, WIC, the worst GI Bill between 1944 and 2015 (at least). Credit card debt to the sky. Student loans I didn't pay off for 17 years after college.
aug 26, 2025, 4:38 am • 1 0 • view
I know what it's like to hoard things to survive, and improvise what I needed to maintain an apartment and a car.
aug 26, 2025, 4:40 am • 1 0 • view
I choose a 20 yard dumpster. It’s cathartic to throw stuff away and you don’t have strange people offering you half of your ask, or worse having them in your yard. Throw it away-less shit for your designated heirs to fill your death dumpster before they get to sell your house for the big payday
aug 25, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Donate it to thrift stores,sell it for a few dollars,recycle, up cycle, reuse ♻️ do not give Chump’s economy one shiny penny,show the big companies that are gouging us,and post record earnings while we are surviving on pennies, we can fight back
aug 25, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Does it work with 79 year old rotten grifters and their syncophants?
aug 25, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Most of us would like to get rid of Trump!
aug 26, 2025, 6:33 am • 2 0 • view