To be pissed off with DH and his attitude towards giving stuff away for free?

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Every season I sort out the kids clothes to make space for the new lot, and every year we have this argument. First it starts with DH saying 'what are you going to do with all that, we don't have space to keep it' to which I reply 'I'll sell them for a tenner but it no one wants to pay I'll give them for free'. Now, although we wouldn't turn down our noses at abit of extra money, we simply don't have space to store these clothes and yet I get blamed when we do end up keeping them for longer. This is because dh absolutely hates giving stuff away for free, and always overcomplicates things by wanting to sell little bundles at a time to make more money. By the time I've sorted out stained stuff (young kids) there's usually not enough to justify selling by age. I just want to get rid of it!

I can't be arsed to try and sell, and have people pick through and not turn up. I bag up anything that isn't bad enough to become a garage rag and drop it to the MIND shop or the cats protection, mainly as I can park near both and my parking skills in mid town suck.

I'm going to give you some excellent advice that was once given to me by a terrible man: sometimes you have to let things break for them to be properly mended.

In this case, let your DH tackle the selling, and let him deal with any fallout connected with mis-listings or difficult customers. When he realises the time, effort and hassle that goes into it, and how poorly it is paid per hour, he may revise his somewhat greedy approach!!

I know it's counter-intuitive to let things go wrong, but sometimes a temporary breakdown in systems can actually resolve things with more finality!