We recently had to clear out my mother-in-law's apartment. Things went a few different places...

1. Electronics - I have video game collection, so I'm constantly selling old electronics on eBay to fund that hobby. So electronics went to me to resell.

2. Furniture - We have a pretty active Buy Nothing Facebook group in our area and we were able to get rid of everything of hers except for a couch and her bed in a weekend. It can be a little hard to get people to show up promptly, but it wasn't really too much trouble and a lot of people were clearly happy with what they got.

3. Housewares & Clothes - We ended up just dropping this stuff in some bins in a nearby church parking lot. If anything was 'great' then I probably would have added it to the Buy Nothing stuff, but most of the stuff was pretty old. Not 100% sure what happens to this stuff after it goes into the bin. Either gets donated places or ends up at a thrift store that generates money. Either way it's better than going in a landfill.

If we had more time and more need to get money for the stuff I probably would have had a garage sale first and then donate whatever didn't sell. Not sure it would have been worth the time. It's enough work just giving away a bunch of old crap!