Emily Henderson and Priscilla Frost placed a desk and office chair behind the sectional sofa in this basement family room that turns the space into a home office by day. Desiree Burns Interiors chose a pale pink upholstered office chair that helps the office corner blend in with the overall color palette of the room. It’s a good option for large items, like that treadmill mocking you from the corner of your bedroom. What I did have was a room that I wanted to be an office/guest bedroom but was more of an office/dumping ground for stuff that has no other place to go. If you’re lacking time and motivation or you know that your stuff isn’t worth the trouble, you still have options for making it disappear from your life. Long-time sellers have the advantage because they know the best ways to work the site, and people feel more comfortable buying from someone who’s been around longer. The longer the item sits, the more it gets marked down, just like at a regular store. It’s more like the classified ads in a newspaper (which people still use, believe it or not). As long as you can pack it into your car and drive it over to your closest thrift store (some do pickups, too), that’s still a possibility.

If none of these options works, there’s still one that some people swear by: setting your gear out on the curb. In one of its most famous finds, Nasa announced in June 2015 that the telescope had discovered a ‘second Earth’ deep in space. Glacier National Park’s Lake McDonald is 6,680 feet wide, 440 feet deep and 10 miles long. Since this caught everyone off guard, several countries threw resources into space programs — the event directly led Congress to create the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA. Backers will be able to write programs for controlling satellites in space and collecting data. Both of these versions introduce a sidebar, an answer to Microsoft’s ribbon developed by IBM/Lotus, that takes advantage of the often-underutilized horizontal space on modern monitors. I hold on to it anyway because doing anything else takes time and decisiveness. You might have a hard time figuring out how to price an item but allow for some haggling room. There was a time when my go-to would be to take it all to a charity thrift store.

But there are also competing theories to explain the midterm penalty. Stores like COS, Another Tomorrow, and Vince offer modern work clothing options that are also sustainable. Consignment stores sell gently used (usually name brand and currently in style) clothing, or sometimes other items like antiques. Now I’ve designated a few things for eBay, and I’ll be selling others to a store that gives cash or store credit for gently used items. Selling on a site like eBay has drawbacks, though. The perk is that somebody else worries about selling your stuff. I knew that once I actually got my stuff sorted, I’d have to figure out what to do with it all. Still, if somebody’s willing to pay you and pick up something that you’d otherwise have to figure out how to haul away yourself, it could be worth it. It’s free, and it’s for locals — meaning the buyer will probably want to come to your house to pick it up. People have come to pick up items from me that I was 100 percent sure I’d be stuck hauling to the landfill. You just join a local chapter (which usually functions as an e-mail list or an online group) and follow their instructions for offering items.

This option does involve somebody coming by your house, but your stuff is gone and all you had to do was send an e-mail. Basically, if you get to Googling, you can probably find a creative way to liberate yourself of stuff. Many people prefer eBay for small items like clothes and toys — shipping can get expensive fast. Consigning is really only worth it for high-ticket items. It could be worth a few dollars in your pocket. Even a few hundred years is pretty short-term when it comes to climate. Some of them might even make you feel good about yourself. Even if they don’t enter the collection, they could be sold to raise funds. You usually have to make an appointment, and then someone at the store will go through your stuff and tell you if they want to sell it and for how much. There’s something poetic in that, but maybe you want a more concrete idea of what happens to your stuff. And more recently, Mac OS X (as well as Windows Vista and other operating systems) has included integrated speech-recognition, but again, this is touted as an accessibility feature.