What creative solutions have you come up with that helped you get rid of clutter?

I had to clear out a whole 3bedroom house in a weekend as it sold. I posted on Facebook pictures of EVERYTHING in there that I would have sold anyways - bedroom sets, dining tables etc etc.

I asked for someone with a truck and helpers to come and take it for free. Caveats - they had to take it on a certain day and do it without my help.

I had dozens (maybe hundreds?) of takers. I chose a guy whose response was very specific ‘I have a truck and 3 family members, we will come on Thursday. Here is my cell’. (Not just that stupid ‘is this available?’ Message).

They came and took everything - coming multiple times. They removed everything they wanted as well as everything they didn’t want.

It was a family that had just come to Canada and had nothing. They were SO THRILLED I was giving them this stuff (the look on their faces was so worth it!).

I lived several hours from this house and my alternatives were to rent a dumpster or try to sell everything cheap on Facebook. The dumpster would have cost me money and selling everything would have been slow and painful. This solution was a win win (even though of course I had the voice in my head the whole time telling me I could have sold this stuff for money).

I think often we have these mental blocks to getting rid of things that seem insurmountable but just need creativity (and maybe a 48hour deadline!!!).

What was your creative solution?