Is it my stuff? Because if it's mine I'm burning it

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I have a new exBF as of this morning since I've found him sexting another woman. He was all set to move in and has filled my house with his furniture, tools and other stuff in advance. It's all excess to my requirements - the plan was to sell it on, just store it for now.
He now wants it back since I've told him this morning that we're over, but I really feel like I owe him no favours. I've so far said that he's welcome to it but neither he nor his family members are welcome at the house. To be honest I'm feeling really proud of how strong I'm being. Seeing any one of them, or even more so him, would crush me. I'm expecting him to arrange for a neutral person to collect it at some point.
But I really want to take scissors to his clothes, throw water over his artwork, or even burn the whole lot! Maybe it's enough just to get this out there in written form, but I really don't want to take this lying down. He's taken me for an absolute fool. The typical mistaking my kindness for weakness and the anger in me wants to show him how wrong he was. So far I've acted with dignity throughout and know that I'm better off without him. But man, the urge is strong... What would you do?

Tell him he needs to collect everything this weekend otherwise it is going in the bin

I'd chuck it all out on the street, undamaged. Tell him, obviously, once it's done. If he doesn't get over quick enough and it gets stolen or rained on, that's on him. No way I'd want to be looking at all the CFs stuff.

It's a classic for a reason.

Get friends to help you pile it up outside then give him notice to pick it up. Tell him it's not coming back in the house then lock up and head out, preferably for the weekend. It will inconvenience him and he will have to scramble to pick up immediately. There's a storm this weekend....

I am a lot older than you. Had to help my friend take her ex’s stuff back after he’d been caught cheating.
She had a little DD and a new baby as well.
He was a pompous prick as well, and was always telling my friend how well she had done as she was ‘just’ a beauty therapist.
He had already been and taken most of it but she wanted the rest gone. He was staying with his mum, who thought he was a prince and my friend was a gold digger.
I helped her turn out every last thing and then we found…. his porn stash. We packed up each bin bag and put a few mags on the top of each one.
Then we knocked at his mum’s while we knew he was out golfing and my friend told her to knock herself out.
We knew she’d open the bags.
Cut to many years later my friend met someone ace, they have a lovely life together and a lovely son.
The ex is back in his mum’s…. again. We live in the type of area where word gets around. He clearly doesn’t mind repeating the same mistakes.
We do hope his mum enjoyed her copies of Razzle and Fiesta! (Very 80’s they were like cheap versions of Playboy!)

I'm not saying he has a legal right to enter her home, clearly he doesn't BUT no reason has been given such as violence which would mean he cant turn uo and collect the stuff at the door

The legal position is here

https://www.cripps.co.uk/thinking/what-happens-if-following-divorce-your-ex-wont-collect-their-things/

I would send the following

Dear Cheating Bastard

Your stuff will be ready for collection on Friday. I will not be there but Big Steve and his friends will be waiting in for you. Please hand your keys back when you leave otherwise they will relieve you of them in their own special way, which I believe involves your face and their knuckles.

Items not collected will be donated to charity.

Regards etc.

Given that he lives 400 miles away I suggest a little thought needs to be given to the practicalities

I've been sat with the stuff around me all day and I'm sick of the sight of it already. I'll arrange a 'moving it to the (damp - shame) garage' session with some friends and then think about whether that's far enough away for him to be able collect without me having to interact, or if he wants to arrange a storage facility and I'll drop it off there - carefully of course. For now I'd just like it out of my line of vision.

Is he worth getting a criminal record for?

I wouldn’t be dropping anything to a storage facility, I wouldn’t even store it in the garage very long for him, tell him that he needs to find some way of collecting it by ( give a date) or else it’s going in the bin

He will probably try and put it off for as long as possible otherwise as he will probably be afraid to see you,

Give him his stuff back. In dignified silence. Shut the door and be very grateful he's out of your life for ever

Find out when he's collecting and put it all the garden. You can't destroy any of it. That's immature. Don't be awkward for the sake of it. The sooner his stuff goes the better.

Forget getting into trouble just don't do it.

It's tempting I get it but it just brings you down to his level by being petty.

Let someone collect it, be the bigger person and then live your best life

These men are everywhere sadly, always needing to be noticed or giving other women attention, need for affirmation. They never change either.
Don't destroy anything, leave it for him to collect. Dignity, head up high, silence.

Don't be a dick. Give him it back.

I'd put all of it outside on Saturday, you are not responsible for it

And send a message at 7am Saturday morning saying it's all outside on the lawn. I will have it watched until it's dark for you to pick up.

The second he turns up you just shut the curtains and you don't have to see his stupid lying face again

How were you going to burn it?Do you have a garden could you pile it up like a bonfire?

"Your goods will be on the driveway on Saturday the 1st Feb from 2pm to 5pm. After 5pm if not collected it will be disposed of."

Anyone know if it's legal to do this, i.e. could OP be in trouble for disposing of it if not collected as advised?

When my husband of 25 years left for OW, I boxed up his stuff, very neatly (but hung into the things I thought were jointly owned and entitled to because I paid for them). Found a man with a van who called him and said he had stuff to deliver - when suits you? Best £50 I ever spent. Lovely van driver phoned after delivery to say the OW’s face was a picture when she saw his Scalectrix being unloaded and that my ex and her had a huge row about all the crap she had to fit into her rather nasty flat. How I laughed with a bottle of champagne. Good luck!

Whatever you decide to do, make sure you sprinkle itching powder in his clothes, (especially his party pants,) before he collects 😁

As pp said glitter is your friend
Then the shed!!

Hire a man and a van

Pile all your Ex's stuff into the van

Dump all the shite in the doorstep where he's living

This is my favourite.
And chucking the stuff in those awful cheap bin bags which couldn't hold a feather pillow without tearing

When I left my abusive ex, I (secretly) ripped in half every photo from our wedding album.
He probably wasn't that bothered, but oh my - it felt so bloody good!!!!

I've never regretted acting with dignity and self respect.