Selling a lot of hoarded stuff - will HMRC think I'm a reseller / trading ?

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Looking for a bit of advice here.

I've been de-cluttering my home and that of my parents too (one died and the other moved in with my sister). My adult children both moved out over the last 12 months and I volunteered to list their abandoned stuff because they have busy lives and I'm semi-retired.

All in all I've listed about 400 items in 10 months, and over 200 of these have sold via either e-bay or vinted, generating over £2,000.

I got a request from ebay to provide my National Insurance after approx 50 items had sold and duly did that but I'm not trading or re-selling.

Will HMRC be expecting me to show ebay/vinted sales proceeds on my tax return ? How do I prove that I'm just selling my own possessions (reformed hoarder), my parents and my kids (I do pass on the respective proceeds to them, I only keep the funds from selling my own stuff).

I would imagine that generally if it is a variety of stuff from a variety of categories with some new most used it shouldn’t “look like” buying to sell. If you had say 20 of the same brand new with tags or boxed unused items it looks more suspicious.

Don’t think it needs to be declared on a tax return

Here is an explanation of how this works with HMRC

Thanks all. I'll stop stressing for the time being.