Thank you for the response. I appreciate your time. To further clarify, am I understanding you correctly in saying that for reporting purposes clothing would be in it's own category as would jewelry? In other words, as long as I report each of those categories as being less than $5000 an appraisal is not needed?
Household items (which by the definition you provided) would include the vast majority of what I donated and collectively those items were valued well over $5000. That being said, no single household item I donated was valued at or over $5000 but collectively those household items were valued over $5000. That leads me to this question. I donated 40 household items, which collectively total over $5000 - is an appraisal required?
