Vicki, I don't know if this would work for you but... when my husband refuses to throw something away, I put it in the garage. If it's still there years later, I sneak it into the trash can the day of garbage pick-up. If he asks for it years later (and he almost always forgets about his old junk) I say I forgot, or I don't know. I learned in the past: if I announce that I'm going to throw away the 8-year-old cheap plastic lawn chair with missing slats, he goes ballistic because he "was going to fix it," but if it's gone he never misses it. Then, my husband's kind of a nut case anyways.