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In these modern times, Craigslist, Ebay, and Amazon exist as wonderful ways to offload items that may contain value for someone else that no longer contain any value for you. Goodwill stores exist as great places to donate things that have become clutter that will not sell quickly. When I have children, I plan to regularly donate or sell toys that are no longer played with. The old legos will of course be added to the standard Giant Bin of Legos.

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Ebay and Amazon require you to separately list and ship each item, and Craigslist is both unreliable and requires much of the same thing. But they, along with Goodwill, were what I was referring to when I mentioned blacklisting the things you don't want. At some point--and estates are certainly one of these--it's so much easier to whitelist and outsource the getting-rid-of process for the rest.

Unless you're talking about my NeXTs. I'd rather make a personal connection with someone who would appreciate them more than I would than just let anonymous hooligans on Ebay buy them.

Nope. Craigslist means having sketchy people come over to your place and examine your unit of stuff while you talk about why you're selling it, when you got it, etc. Ebay and Amazon mean the work of putting the stuff online and then mailing them off. It's time consuming. Screw it - load the crap up and drive it to the thrift store.

I suppose a garage sale might be worth the effort since you can do everything at once.

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