What gets donated?

Opinions vary on what is sellable and what needs to go. How do you decide what gets donated?

How do you decide what gets donated?

If it's something I wouldn't buy at a garage sale then it goes in the donation pile.

If it's something I wouldn't buy at a garage sale then it goes in the donation pile.

99.9% of the stuff I find in these units I wouldn't buy at a yard sale, I'd be donating everything if I adopted that philosophy. ;-) I recently decided to try a new gimmick and had a $1 yard sale recently, everything priced at a dollar or less. It was all stuff I was ready to donate but some good stuff in there. All in all I made over $800 in about 5 hours. The great thing was it was all profit because it was leftovers from various units I had already made my money back on. Typically though if it is not broken or trash, it goes through 1 yard sale, then it gets donated.

I donate all clean basic non designer clothing. Glassware, dishes, basically all the boring common household stuff, most books (after I make sure sure they have no value). Towels, bedding, blankets....The list goes on and on. I take truckloads to the goodwill.