Keeping possessions to a minimum

[ny biker]

Or just put it on the curb on large item collection day. Pickers go through the night before, or early in the morning, and take anything usable or restorable, anywhere I've lived.

Yes we have large trash pickup once a week here, and sometimes people will take the usable stuff before the garbage trucks arrive.

[Crankin]

We have an agency that takes donations of all household goods, including furniture. They have a large warehouse in the neighboring town. It's for anyone that can prove need, not just people transitioning from shelters. I've written letters for a couple of clients. Also, I know quite a few people who volunteer there.
Nuliajuk, we have quite a few household items/tools like the rug cleaning machine, because it's easier for DH to do it himself. Personally, I would pay for people to do anything, but, I am totally useless when it comes to mechanical things/fixing stuff/operating machinery. DH even has a tool to help him do the snow tires on his giant SUV, but in the spring I heard him grumbling it might be time to start taking it to the tire place. None of this stuff is in the way, though, and some will go when we move. We sold our tractor mower for a 1.00 to a neighbor who fixed it up, when we moved to this house. It was broken, we hadn't used it for years, as we had gardeners, and this house has no lawn, thankfully.

[shootingstar]

My partner bought the carpet shampooer cleaner...whereupon he shampooed and cleaned the carpet..um several times. It makes a difference if it's your own and on your own time doing it. Strange as this may seem but we really didn't want to buy any counter kitchen appliances --no toaster, blender, food chopper or pannini grill. Hand blender and stowaway egg/batter beater is all broken down, stowed away. We live in condo for 2 @ 770 sq ft. We do have lockers to store bikes. He has an elaborate happy storage locker for his bikes (we cannot keep bikes up in our suite at all, too dirty and not enough rm.), most of his cycling jackets, trailer, several panniers, just stacks of stuff. He even forgot once he had a brand-new of panniers.

But it's all put to good use --we have basic bike, accessories stored in 3 cities now. I know it sounds crazy but honest we are long enough in a city where there is family, that bike rental would be $100.00+ for several days in total or if we shipped our bikes everytime we visited families that's $50.00 one way per bike (Air Canada). Cities where we each aren't often, we leave behind one of our older bikes /cheaper bikes and allow family members to ride if they want.