When to give in and start tossing things?

All the time!  I finally started tossing stamps with serious flaws (unless really high CV.... with typically they are not). And as I complete pages, need to start thinking about doing something with all the dupes, whether a give away or auction... both of which require additional time and effort

and this extends beyond stamps... well beyond

I am a fan of all of those areas so you can consider me interested.

To me, stamps from Central and South America, have no interest at all. I give them for charity. And, even then, there are no takers...

Easy there Max, take it a breathe John ;-)

Whilst South America may not be for everyone, there are some great issues from several of the countries for any arm-chair traveler, e.g. Bolivia (Gate of the Sun issues - stellar), Ecuador or even Venezuela.

• Young Stamp Collectors of America (YSCA)
  
• Philatelic Youth Council of New Zealand
• National Youth Stamp Group - UK

I never knew of the Oxfam donation/auction! Too bad, the last auction I would have bid on stuff! Thanks for that, Ryan!

Now see, I collect Christmas. But I'm beyond the common stuff and throw it in with lots to auction or give away. I have a real hard time throwing stamps out...even damaged ones. I'm afraid there's one I've overlooked somehow. That being said, every now and then I hold my breath and toss a bunch of damaged stamps...furtively looking the other way.

I'd love to start a South Korean stamp collection, having visited the country in 2017. It was a wonderful trip. We have boarded International students from South Korea for years. Plus I used to tutor South Koreans in conversational English. To date I do not have a single stamp!    I have plenty of other areas to focus on first.

I remember some time ago reading about artists who make collages out of postage stamps, but I didn't copy down the right URLs or the URLs didn't work, and searches like "stamp art" got me lost in the realms of DIY rubber-stamping. Does anybody here know what I'm talking about or know of any artists who might be involved?

A school in Massachusetts put out requests for stamps because they wanted to get six million of them to create a Holocaust remembrance. By the time I found out about it and got my act together, though, they had acquired all the stamps they needed - which I thought was wonderful, both because the young people had this creative idea in the first place but because they got so many responses in a time when denial and revisionism are becoming more prevalent.

I could send them to a disabled veterans' group but I'm worried that they're already inundated with the most common definitives and I'd be adding to the disappointment that arrives with every package. Is this a legitimate worry? I could gather up hundreds of incomplete sets from Poland and Bulgaria and hope that somebody likes them, but what do I do with Queen Juliana?

I do tos away a lot of stamps and stamp related material. There is to much common stamps laying around taking up space and your (my) time that I need to the real stuff. I'm now downsizing my hoards of albums and stamps. Here in Norway It's hard to sell common UK stamps (as an example). I had and have several stock books with duplicates. I don't manage to sell them in big lots, nobody want them even if I only ask nok 10,- (€1, 1$) + postage for a lot. Impossible and expensive to give away, notting local to give them to.
What I have to do is sell it as a stock book with stamps. Or I can put together boxes with different material and sell it. But it is limited how much common material I can put into these boxes and sell with clear conscience.

So yes I toss away a lot. All damaged stamps goes straight to the bin, unless valuable stamps of interest.
I remember last year I tossed two big bags (120 liter) the same week, stamps and stamps related material.

The real art is to manage to go trough your new purchases and make a decision what is worth collecting and what is hoarding. I most cases you can get rid of 80% ore more ( when you bay big lots). That said, I have loads of stuff that I have hoarded and not taken my time to go trough that just take up space and make my stamp room look clutter.
If any of you now say that you want the stuff I toss away, that's fine, I will give it to you for free, but you have to pay the postage.
Posten Norge with postage price 

So you see it is expensive to send, and when what you send is common stuff that IMHO belong in the bin, I have not spent much time finding new owners.