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Get it Gone in 2025: Declutter and Downsize Your Belongings this Spring
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items Too much junk cluttering up your space? Not sure what to do with your unwanted belongings? Get it gone in 2025 this spring cleaning season with these highly rated & convenient item sales, donation, and recycling options.
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Sell it!
Mercari is one of my personal favorite online sales marketplaces. Super popular and the lowest selling fees out there.
Mercari
Selling with marketplace is quick and easy for both the online and local markets. Be careful with the shipping market though: if you get too many late or canceled orders you can and will be banned from shipping with facebook.
Marketplace
You can post your sale items on Offerup and choose to post either locally, for shipping, or both. I recommend if an item is shippable to post it for both markets as it's getting to more potential buyers.
OfferUp
eBay is great for selling online. It has a huge audience of both buyers and sellers that pretty much guarantees quick sales. High fees but worth it for the most part.
eBay
When I post to Marketplace, I ALWAYS cross-post (to do this directly while listing, click ‘List in more places’) every item to buy/sell groups that I am part of. It skips the shifty Marketplace algorithm and gets your items seen by more interested pe...
Facebook Local Sales Groups
Donate it!
Search on Facebook in the Groups section “free” or “freebies” + {Your city or locality} to see if there are any existing free items gifting groups near you. If not, you can always start one and post the link on your profile and in your local communit...
Facebook Local Freebie Groups
Trash Nothing is another free economy group, pretty much like Freecycle but easier for the modern smartphone age. TN has an app for easier posting and browsing on the go.
Trash Nothing
Freecycle is a lovely community of neighbors sharing and gifting items they no longer need. Once you sign up you can view and post freebies for local pickup.
Freecycle
Buy Nothing is similar to Freecycle except it's on Facebook and more group-oriented. Find your local Buy Nothing group(s) here, join them, and get access to lots of great freebies but also find a new place to give away your old items. Also join the B...
Buy Nothing Facebook Groups
Lupus, the foundation funding research for the namesake condition, offers free donation pickups plus a tax receipt in most areas to raise funds for their cause.
Lupus Donation Pickup
Greendrop is my personal favorite free donation pickup service as they keep track of your previous donations and tax receipts under your account on their website.
GreenDrop Donation Pickup
Benefiting Vietnam Veterans of America, Pickup Please offers free donation pickup services with a tax receipt.
Pickup Please Donation Pickup
Trade in your unwanted devices, media, games, and more for cash. Shipping is free and once the items are verified the money is automatically sent to you.
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Find thrift stores near you with this thorough national directory list. Thrift stores are (usually) always accepting donation drop offs, and some even offer pickup! In many cases funds from these donations to right back into your local community.
National Thrift Store Directory
While I'm not a fan of their politics, Salvation Army picks up household items and larger items such as furniture for FREE. We donated a couch and they picked it up at no cost to us.
Free Donation Pickup by Salvation Army
Recycle it!
Get paid to recycle your old or unwanted sneakers and athletic shoes with GotSneakers!
GotSneakers - A Zero-Waste Sneaker Recycling Company
Terracycle offers many recycling programs for a variety of different hard-to-recycle waste products.
TerraCycle
Ridwell is a subscription service available in many areas that provides members with pickup collection and recycling of hard to recycle materials.
Ridwell. Wasting less, made easy.
A simple and clear guide by the EPA on what you can recycle and how.
How Do I Recycle Common Recyclables | US EPA