What to Do with Your Purge: Tips for Donating, Gifting, and Selling 53:33

So you've done the declutter and achieved a degree of minimalism and frugality that feels right for you...now what?? On this episode we talk all about what to do after the 'purge' and some sustainable and responsible ways to give, sell, or donate your used and unwanted things!

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What the Internet has to say:

This article from The Verge gives us tips on how to get rid of all the stuff we've decluttered from our homes...responsibly!

What Jen + Jill have to say:

• Tech
  • Check out manufacturing trade in deals (apple, android)
  • Sell old stuff (ebay, FB marketplace)
  • Declutrr gives quote on your tech (and may also take books, CDs, DVDs, legos)
  • Swappa (charges buyer, not seller)
  • Amazon has trade in program (payment in form of gift card)
  • Charity
    • Computers with a Cause
    • World Computer Exchange
    • Globetops
  • So old no one wants it?
    • Recycle - check with town/city for recycling center - check out earth911 for nearest recycling center
    • LOL - give it to a museum????!!
• Books 
  • Sell 
    • Amazon, Abebooks, Powells (give ISBN, condition, mail in book, they sell and give you money)
    • Textbooks - Chegg, bookbyte
  • Give
    • Better world books - list of dropsites
    • Books for soldiers
    • Libraries
• Clothing
  • Sell: the real real - designer stuff
  • Give to charity - charity navigator, guidestar
  • givebackbox
• Everything else 
  • Ebay
  • Freecycle, buy nothing groups, neighborhood app

More from the Internet:

This article from NBC News gives us some more ideas on how to get rid of items that we no longer need

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