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.

1. Spare contact lens cases
2. Broken costume jewelry
3. Dictionaries
4. Wrinkled wrapping paper and crushed bows
5. Latex paint (if it’s more than a year old)
6. A bread machine (rice maker, sno-cone machine, et al)
7. DVD exercise videos (you know you’re never going to use those again)
8. Manuals for appliances and electronics (they’re all available online)
9. Cookbooks you’ve cracked open once
10. Random vacuum cleaner attachments
11. Old remote controls you don’t recognize
12. Scrunchies that have lost their scrunch (wait, people still have these?)
13. Incomplete decks of playing cards (also see: games with lost pieces)
14. Bridesmaid dresses-Contact Jessica McGowen of Holden who created “Shine On”
15. Take out menus (everything’s online!)
16. Picture frames with broken easel backs
17. Road maps (there’s a GPS on your phone)
18. Old sets of sheets, pillow cases or extra (but flat) pillows
19. Unidentifiable keys
20. Almost empty bottles of bubbles
21. In-line skates
22. Contents of goodie bags from kids’ parties
23. Impossible puzzles no one has ever finished
24. Free gifts from cosmetic purchases
25. Orphan mittens, socks, slippers
26. Travel guidebooks
27. Chargers for old electronics
28. Wire hangers from the dry cleaner
29. Dusty potpourri
30. Chopsticks and soy sauce packets
31. Your “fat” clothes
32. Carpet remnants
33. Filled coloring books
34. Stretched-out bras
35. Scratched non-stick pans
36. Anything with an antenna
37. Prescription eyeglasses that are no longer your prescription
38. Umbrellas with bent or broken spokes
39. Allen wrenches from DIY furniture
40. Checkbook registers
41. Unused hair styling tools (crimper, anyone?)
42. Musical instruments no one plays anymore (go to mhopus.org for info on how to donate)
43. Business cards
44. Smelly towels
45. Fishbowls
46. Fancy loose teas you received as a hostess gift
47. The Yellow Pages
48. Sports uniforms the kids have outgrown
49. Vases that came with delivered flowers
50. Commemorative spoons and plates

For a list of local charities accepting donations, see our guide.