Charitable Donation of Household Goods and Clothing. TurboTax wants Purchase Price??

[rjbur007]

I have donated in a single visit / day numerous boxes and bags of clothing and household items to Goodwill that have a total Donation Value of over $500 dollars.  TurboTax is insisting that I provide the "Purchase Price"??  How am I supposed to have records and know the original purchase price for all the clothes and items that were purchased at various times and lack records?  It keeps coming up as an issue during the Federal Form check.  Do I just ignore the alert as it seems to affect a worksheet and not an actual IRS form?

[AmeliesUncle · Accepted solution]

Because it is over $500, it is required.

Just do a good estimate.  As long as it is higher than the Fair Market Value, it won't actually affect the deduction, so just give an estimate.