Suggestions for getting rid of un-needed, potentially valuable items?

In a few months, I'll be moving out of my apartment and into my fiance's house. As successful 30-something professionals, we have everything we need, and between the two of us, we actually have a lot of duplicate items.

We're in the process of going through our things to decide which items to keep and which items we want to sell or donate, and I have just relized how much STUFF I have! I didn't even know I had some of these things!! I have so many items I don't use - such as ceramics, a set of very large hand-painted vases, flower-shaped salad plates, sunflower teapot, etc - and I'm just not sure what to do with them. Most of these are items I would have *never* bought, and that I don't use. The problem is that most of them were reasonably expensive gifts from dear family and friends. Do I offer pieces back to the person(s) who gave them? Do I try to sell them? If so, how in the world do I figure out what they're worth?

Help?! Suggestions, please?!



Thanks :-)

Suggestions for getting rid of un-needed, potentially valuable items?
I had the same problem when my hubby and I moved in together. I did offer some of the items back to the person who gave them to me, offering some things to relatives who were getting married and moving into their own places. Some items we sold in a massive garage sale. Some items we had sold in a consigment store. You can value your items by looking on E-bay, visiting second hand stores, looking in Kovac's antique books or their website, check out china at Replacements.com. Most items that aren't antique or collectables generally have a starting value of half their original price on the secondary market. Donation values can be found on SalvationArmy.com.
Reply:Have a garage sale or yard sale and make some money.

Post an ad in the classifieds.

Sell them on E-Bay.

Sell them for whatever you think they are worth, or best offer, make sure the price is low enough that someone would actually want to buy it for that price. You can also search E-Bay to see what similar items are listed for.



Sure you can offer some items back to your relatives if you think they might want it back. You wouldn't want them thinking "well I would have taken it back if he offered it!!", but then again, you don't want to offend them by saying "here's your crappy gift back".
Reply:Go to a nearby flea market and look around you will be able to find similar items then you will be better able to determine what to charge for them; or if it is just to much of a hassle to even fool with. Judging from what you named I could easily find all of those items for less than fifty bucks at the flea markets around here. Unless the hand painted vases are very old then they are more apt to be mass produced subsequently the value would be relatively low; the same with teapot. Another way of finding out what it is worth would be to look on the back and get the name of the manufacturer's name and look up the company on line; and see what it would cost to purchase it now and charge 10% less to move them quickly. I do this with a lot of items that I resale.
Reply:I AM HAPPY FOR YOU AND GOOD LUCK. YOU COULD USE THEM AS GIFTS FOR YOUR FAMILY AND GOOD FRIENDS.YOU WILL MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY WITH SOMETHING YOU DONT NEED.....

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