We are hoping to get a piano. Neither one of us play, and I have no illusions that I ever will. But here’s the thing. It’s my cousins. She loves to play and is very, very good. She is also my best friend.
We are moving and have a perfect place for it. My cousin has it in ‘deep’ storage and can’t even get to it. She will be welcome to play when she visits. It’s an electric Yamaha.
We sold the last one without much hassle. Nothing hurt by putting a listing on Facebook and Craigslist for some nominal amount like $50-$100 just to get rid of it.
The last couple of times we had big things to dispose of, we had a harder time finding homes for them than expected.
One was a refrigerator which worked fine, but didn’t fit into the right space when we remodeled our kitchen. Husband had dreams of recouping some remodeling expenses by putting it on NextDoor for a few hundred dollars, but we had no takers and in the end, we got a local recycling place to come get it in return for a small donation.
The other was a perfectly good washing machine. Our dryer died, and husband wanted to replace both machines at the same time. I put the washing machine on NextDoor for free and got a lot of interest, but it was a couple of weeks before someone was actually able to transport the thing. I hope they’re enjoying it; I liked it more than I do the new one.
I have a Yamaha acoustic guitar.
Vaderling wanted guitar lessons, he even convinced me to buy a used mini-guitar his school was selling. Ex-wife got that one in the divorce so I bought him a brand new yamaha just so he could take 4 lessons and quit.
Treadmill in the basement. We got it from my wife’s parents about 20 years ago, used it quite a lot for a while, then it just sat. Every once in a while I would fire it up, like if we were doing a “steps challenge” at work where I had to get a certain number of steps every day and it was too cold or wet to walk outside. But it’s probably been at least five years since it’s been plugged in.
Up until a few years ago I would have been in the “piano” group. We had a small upright piano that my wife bought before we were married, and even when she bought it (cheap) it was old and in crappy shape. It was mostly just more space to put flowers and picture frames on. We finally decided to get rid of it, called the city to come and pick it up, and nearly busted our asses dragging the thing out to the curb. The city came by with a big dump truck like vehicle with a claw arm on the back. The arm picked it up, swung around, and dropped it in the back of the truck with a very satisfying crash. I wish I would have recorded it, it was awesome to watch.
Two LARGE stereo speakers (30" high and take up 26" x 28" footprint on the floor) that were hand made by my wife’s grandfather back in the 1960s. I suppose you could argue they are used as end tables where they sit on either side of the couch in the family room, but they haven’t been used as stereo speakers for several decades.
Around here, you can get rid of anything that has substantial metal content like large appliances and exercise equipment just by taking it did the curb. Won’t be more than a few hours before a guy in a scrap metal truck loads it up and makes it disappear. Nicer if someone gives me money or can make actual use of it but I always have an easy Plan B.
I have a spinning wheel over 180 years old that I still use, a 1910 Singer treadle sewing machine, and probably a couple other such things that are all working antiques that I still use and very much “ain’t going nowhere”.
The only reason my electronic piano qualifies for this thread is because, due to medical and financial issues over the past couple years, I haven’t been able to repair it yet. I still fully intend to do that.
After my spouse died and I was forced to move from the home I had at the time I downsized a lot. I’m still trying to pare away at what I don’t need. As I get older I’m trying to travel lighter.
When I moved from Chicago to NC I called some place like “Got Junk” which sent a truck and a crew to haul stuff away. I actually had them come out twice. The first time they helped clear out a bunch of furniture to make things easier for the movers. The second time was after everything I was taking had been cleared out (including boxes of books that I shipped book rate through the post office). They cleared out the house and left it “broom clean” per the conditions of the sale.
I asked my wife this question and she immediately said “the shower in the hall bathroom.” Both showers have glass doors. We aoid using the 2d one, just so we do not have to clean that glass door.
Her second suggestion was the bathtub in our main bath. We turned a closet in an adjoining bedroom around to create a decent sized shower stall, but also included a tub. We thought we might use it for grandkids and for resale value. If we did it now, we would skip the tub, keep the closet, and just have a larger shower stall.
Some years ago, I watched a skip lorry attempting to pick up a medium-sized skip. When the driver tried to lift it, his front wheels just came off the ground, despite his having jacks at the rear.
The skip was loaded with rubble from a demolished building, and to get full value, they had stacked paving slabs vertically to extend the height. I have no idea what it weighed, but I expect they had to unload at least a couple of tonnes before it could be taken away.
I’d say the biggest thing is my entire upstairs. It’s a house that sleeps ten comfortably and there are only two of us, and we sleep in the same bed, downstairs. We had to buy the house to get the land.
I store stuff up there … and when people sleep over they have an entire furnished floor to themselves. But they don’t sleep over all that often.
When we replaced our water heater, the old one sat in the basement for years, mostly because we just kept forgetting to call the city for a large item pickup. (You can put stuff like that out on the curb with your trash, but they won’t pick it up unless you call first.) We finally got around to calling them, and I dragged it out to the curb along with that week’s trash. In the half hour between when I put it out and my wife got home from work, someone had already scavenged it. I told my wife “If I knew it was that easy I would have put it out years ago!”
Same with me, I used it a lot prior to 1990 but haven’t used it since. I loaned it to the lady who owns a drapery shop over 35 years ago.
My largest items would probably include my cast iron dutch oven, and a couple of supersized porcelain cooking pots, i used to make big batches of gumbo or chili but haven’t done that in decades.
Claw foot tub.
It’s lovely, and I adored it when we moved in. It’s the slightly smaller version, and has a shower attachment, which does see lots of daily use.
But using it as a tub, to soak in etc, probably only twice in the 20+ yrs we’ve lived here.
I mean it’s much in keeping with the rest of this very old house, (high ceilings, old style hardwood floors, inlaid cherry floors, in front rooms, pocket doors etc, etc!), and I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another house with one, but I’d never go out of my way to have one installed.
It looks really lovely, but functions just like any other shower. As a tub, it excels as the water is nice and deep and stays very hot as it’s cast iron. But, in reality, is very, very rarely used for such purpose.
As a uni student in this town, back in the day, it wasn’t uncommon to have such a tub, but without the shower add on. But those days are now long past and such tubs are now rarely seen.
My wife does a lot of quilting, and often sends her unfinished quilts to someone with a full-frame quilting machine, as seen here:
So when one of her elderly quilting friends had to move out of her home and had to get rid of it, my wife accepted it. She played with it a few times, but hasn’t touched it since.
At least it’s in the basement, so it’s out of the way. It’s the biggest unused thing down there, besides my unused model train set, but we don’t talk about that.
What’s the first, and therefore biggest, rule of Unused Train Set Club? 
I don’t want to talk about it, thanks.
I have two teenagers, who seem unable to perform useful human activities such as picking up after themselves.
They aren’t completely unused, though. They consume large quantities of milk and potato chips.
Other than that, we moved from Taiwan to Japan two years ago and ruthlessly threw or gave away everything that wasn’t being regularly used.
We have managed to get an electric piano that isn’t being used so it’s an endless struggle.
Ours isn’t anything so big or comprehensive. It’s a 4kw portable, that is about 3k-3.2k on natural gas. So not enough to power the house, but enough to keep the freezers/fridges at their proper temperatures (the main purpose) and run some other small item- light, fan, space heater (maybe; not sure how much juice that pulls). Also, charge phones and flashlights.
Other than the emergency generator, I’d say the workbench in the garage. I mean, it is technically used as storage space, but it’s not in use as an actual workbench/project area because I desperately need to clean it up and organize that area. Now that we’ve got a ceiling fan and a light out there, it’s actually useful for a larger chunk of the year (too hot otherwise!).