[TroutStalker]

If I may make a suggestion, select what you want to keep, and have an estate sale for the rest. You would be surprised what people will buy and take home for their own "collection".

[Catspaw]

If I may make a suggestion, select what you want to keep, and have an estate sale for the rest. You would be surprised what people will buy and take home for their own "collection".

That's what we plan on doing--having a big yard sale for one or two weekends prior to moving on board. What's left we either toss or give to St. Vincent de Paul (depending on what's left). There's not a lot of storage space aboard a boat (it's not like we're going to be towing a barge behind us), so what we take with us will be minimal. And we have 20+ years of STUFF to dump.

[NYC GOP Chick]

A couple of months ago, one of my neighbors decided that since she became a vegetarian and started doing a lot of legal work for animal rights activists, she no longer felt comfortable with her leather stuff, so she gave it all away -- jacket, briefcases, shoes, etc. That's how I wound up with a gorgeous, black leather jacket which is *so* soft and hangs just perfectly on me. :)