Nan, my husband too! And he always wants to keep that which makes NO sense.
One thing that I do is go through and make two piles... keep and donate (or sell if we're having a garage sale first). I try to keep them at half - half goes in one pile, half goes in the other (it never works that way, but giving them the idea of half up front helps keep the donate pile from being just one thing). And if they want to keep something that should be donated, then they have to trade something from their keep pile (if it's something they never play with, etc). And when it's all said and done, and we have two piles, I let them pick ONE item from the donate pile to keep. Doing the last part actually helps them put more items in the donate pile up front.
Oh, and I try to convince them once that something they never play with that they keep should be donated just once. If they still say no, we wait until the next cleanout.
Last edited by JJsMom; 05/24/10 10:41 AM.
