framed prints, and more board games than any one family should apparently own.
I split the donations between a local charity resale shop and a nonprofit that helps families furnish apartments after housing transitions. That second option felt especially good for the household basics: dishes, towels, lamps, and small furniture. I also recycled 2 banker boxes of old paperwork after shredding sensitive pages. Once I saw how much of it could be useful to someone right away, the guilt dropped dramatically.
The hardest items to let go of were mine,
