Music gear, and really, to anyone but a musician it has zero $$$ value. I've gone through two rounds of purges, and want to see what I can sell starting this spring. Just want to keep a couple of mics, a couple of guitars, and my favorite bass. Mixing board, desk, dozens of cables, remaining rack mounted effects, mics, amps, studio monitors, etc are going to be gone finally. Our basement, which previously was basically a hovel where I set up shop in an area that I treated to be able to mix tunes, is now a moral outrage. And it's on me 100%. My wife won't go downstairs anymore. Plus my workshop needs to be revised as well.
The upstairs of our home and our second floor are pure bliss. Everything else below ground level, as noted, is my project starting on December 26th.
My mom, though? That's hoarding. My uncle and I had an experience in the fall of 2019 where *an entire room of the house* had boxes piled 8' high, and without lanes to walk through, and we had to get everything to the basement... as my mom didn't want to give anything away. Took 3 days, and like you see on tv, we found dead mice, mouse poop *everywhere*, other rotten and decomposed stuff, and a drawer filled with... doll parts. Ugh.