EG's top ten ways to get rid of stuff:

1) Move,
2) Have a clothes washer hose come loose and send about thirty gallons of water into one's basement,
3) Fire,
4) Have the local dam break,
5) Earthquake,
6) Tornado,
7) Hurricane,
8) Tsunami,
9) Armegeddon,
10)Have a religious experience and decide to give away all worldly goods and become a minimalist.