It's more of a challenge when you partner is a hoarder and is fine with that and never really wants to get rid of anything.
But....I forced him to help me go through a few million screws/bolts/nuts, etc. I'll take a big bag of them to the metal recycling place.
Then it was on to our shed. We only got through half of it, but got rid of some stuff. I'm ashamed to say this, but there are times when I decide not to recycle something, because I'm just so danged tired (and in pain) of trying to take all the stuff off the thing that is recyclable, but has tons of non-recyclable things on it. I recycle sooooooo much. But I'm still sad that I just set it out for the trash pick-up. I'm talking mostly of 4 old aluminum lawn chairs that had torn fabric, rusted bolts, etc. I've had them sitting behind the shed for about 25 years, hoping to re-do the material on them, but never got a round tuit. (where do they sell those tuits, anyhow?)
Sent tons of huge sheets of plastic to the dump. They aren't recyclable.
Then I had DH bring down a couple big boxes from the attic, full of old Halloween costumes, decorations, plastic pumpkins, ghost, etc. I put each costume in a ziploc bag and labeled it. I took the stuff to Goodwill this morning and apologized for bringing it on Halloween Day. I hope it still sells. I just don't want to use places like Goodwill and recycling as dumps.
Anyhow......I think I'm on a roll. I hope so. There's something sooooo freeing about getting rid of stuff.