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[quote=Anonymous]Used furniture is not worth a lot of trouble and effort. Household items even less so.

My experience after dealing with two parental estates:
- Most of the used furniture should simply be picked up by the Junk Army. (For example, my FILs ratty old bed, couch and bookshelves that were ~40 years old)
- Used furniture that is not too beat up, give to Goodwill, along with household linens, clothes, dishes, silverware, books, etc.
- I took some of my mom's furniture to a consignment store that sold it for me. They were pretty picky about what they took to resell. Had to be &quot;like new&quot;. It was barely worth the effort.
- I took a few items of furniture for myself because I did all the work. Wasn't going to ship furniture, no way. Come and get it if you want. The cost of shipping &gt; value of the furniture.
- Facebook and Craigslist are not worth it. Any listing will immediately attract scam artists (the cashier's check scam) and jerks who want to bargain you down. [/quote]

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