Random vacuum cleaner attachments? 50 things to chuck when Spring Cleaning.
It’s still Spring Cleaning time and you’ve definitely got some stuff that should get sprung! When you’re finished, you won’t believe how much lighter you (and your home) will seem.
See our list below and consider donating those items that may be useful to others.
- Spare contact lens cases
- Broken costume jewelry
- Dictionaries
- Wrinkled wrapping paper and crushed bows
- Latex paint (if it’s more than a year old)
- A bread machine (rice maker, sno-cone machine, et al)
- DVD exercise videos (you know you’re never going to use those again)
- Manuals for appliances and electronics (they’re all available online)
- Cookbooks you’ve cracked open once
- Random vacuum cleaner attachments
- Old remote controls you don’t recognize
- Scrunchies that have lost their scrunch (wait, people still have these?)
- Incomplete decks of playing cards (also see: games with lost pieces)
- Bridesmaid dresses-Contact Jessica McGowen of Holden who created “Shine On”
- Take out menus (everything’s online!)
- Picture frames with broken easel backs
- Road maps (there’s a GPS on your phone)
- Old sets of sheets, pillow cases or extra (but flat) pillows
- Unidentifiable keys
- Almost empty bottles of bubbles
- In-line skates
- Contents of goodie bags from kids’ parties
- Impossible puzzles no one has ever finished
- Free gifts from cosmetic purchases
- Orphan mittens, socks, slippers
- Travel guidebooks
- Chargers for old electronics
- Wire hangers from the dry cleaner
- Dusty potpourri
- Chopsticks and soy sauce packets
- Your “fat” clothes
- Carpet remnants
- Filled coloring books
- Stretched-out bras
- Scratched non-stick pans
- Anything with an antenna
- Prescription eyeglasses that are no longer your prescription
- Umbrellas with bent or broken spokes
- Allen wrenches from DIY furniture
- Checkbook registers
- Unused hair styling tools (crimper, anyone?)
- Musical instruments no one plays anymore (go to mhopus.org for info on how to donate)
- Business cards
- Smelly towels
- Fishbowls
- Fancy loose teas you received as a hostess gift
- The Yellow Pages
- Sports uniforms the kids have outgrown
- Vases that came with delivered flowers
- Commemorative spoons and plates
For a list of local charities accepting donations, see our guide.