If you’ve ever hosted a yard sale, you know the drill: you start with big dreams of making a little extra cash and clearing out the clutter, and then the day ends with a surprising amount of random stuff still sitting on your driveway. What do you do then?

One great option is to load up everything and head to Goodwill, because they always accept anything and everything you want to drop off. Right? I mean, that’s the beauty of a Goodwill store – every trip feels like a treasure hunt. One day you leave with a perfectly good coffee table, the next day it’s a vintage jacket, a stack of vinyl records, or a fondue pot you didn’t know you needed. The constant rotation makes it fun.

BUT, before you back your SUV up to the donation door and dump a mystery box of life’s leftovers, it’s good to kno

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