Furniture donation values

The table is each guide's own low and high. It is not an average, and the higher end is not the one this site picks for you. An empty cell reads not listed. Goodwill Northern New England is dated February 3, 2025, and its rows are not copied. The privacy page on that site says reproduction needs prior permission. An item you type that is not an item type can use the unlisted rule, 30%⁶² of the price you enter. Picking a listed type that a guide lacks does not fill the hole with that percent.

A sofa with worn arms is a different gift from one someone just stopped using. The guides still print one span. Publication 561 says You cannot take an income tax charitable contribution deduction for household items unless they are in good used condition or better.⁶³ The sentence under the table is that rule, including the exception that needs an appraisal. Brand is not a column. A named maker does not move the row. Age is not a column either. A sofa from last year and one that has been in the house for a decade share the type. What the lists do record, sometimes, is completeness, and they record it inside the label.

The dresser is where the four copied lists sit farthest apart at the high end. The Salvation Army national list, retrieved 2026-11-12 and undated, prints $21–$104²⁶. That label includes a mirror. Goodwill Industries International, dated January 12, 2011, prints $20–$60²⁵. The list published at ccmaine.org on July 19, 2012 prints $20–$150²⁴. The list published at tchabitat.org on January 2, 2019 prints $25–$100²³. Same word, dresser, and the Salvation Army row is the one that names a mirror. That is a completeness difference sitting inside the label, not a blended price.

A dining set is a sharper version of the same problem, on two lists only. The tchabitat.org row is $50–$250²⁰. The label is a table and chairs. The Salvation Army row is $156–$934²¹, and that label says the set is complete. Those are not the same object. A sofa, which all four copied lists do name, is $36–$207⁵⁴ on the Salvation Army list and $25–$150⁵¹ on the tchabitat.org list, where the label is couch. A bedroom set is on the Salvation Army list only, $259–$1,037⁹.

A filing cabinet is an item type with no guide row. Every cell says not listed. Choosing it does not invent a span and does not apply the percent rule. The percent rule is for an item you type that is not one of the item types. Desks are listed. The Salvation Army desk row is $26–$145³.

Household items do not include paintings, antiques, objects of art, jewelry, gems, and collections like stamp and coin collections.⁶⁴ The Salvation Army list still prints a picture row, $5–$207⁴⁷. That type is filed as excluded. It shows in the table and adds nothing. It is not evidence that the other guides price art. They do not have that row.

Donate by picking the type in the calculator. Each charity stays on its own line, and the line names what that guide does not list. Which door you carry the sofa to is your call. These ranges are not an acceptance policy. Selling is not priced here. A guide span is not money that changed hands. surplus auction prices is a different channel, government surplus, and that page stays off until a matched set qualifies. Desks are one of the types those lots can match. A filing cabinet is another, still with no donation range.

IRS rules for donated household items has the Form 8283 thresholds. donation value guides compared compares the lists. methodology is which numbers are allowed. sources has the retrieval date on each one. Other rooms of the house are Appliances, Bedding and linens and Kitchen and housewares.