How many cool or interesting finds were in that basement? That's the real question we should all be asking because that's always how it goes.
You go to start cleaning or organizing and along the way you find so much stuff to get distracted by, lol
Depends on how much you like books! We've all got piles and piles of books we're interested in while the rest are being donated. Lots of vintage leather-bound tomes and stuff of that nature. My dad was a used book seller for years, and much of his house was converted to storage for that (which understandably drove my mom crazy). He's getting too old to do anything with it, and most of the books are so niche it would take years to sell them. Seriously, he just sold a book a few days ago that'd been listed for 12 years. >_>;
Of course he was also into model cars, vintage audio stuff like receivers, records, tapes, 8-tracks, players for all of them, big ass kabuki speakers from the seventies that weigh fifty pounds each, etc. Some of its still surprisingly usable even! I might actually end up using some of the speakers if I can find a place for them. (they're so big)
Found a sailor moon figurine still in the packaging, though the quality of the model was dubious enough I'm fairly certain it came out of a happy meal or something lmao. So yeah, definitely some cool stuff lying around. Unfortunately, their basement did flood at one point in the past few years, so anything close to the floor at the time was likely damaged beyond repair. Still, thanks to his packrat ways much of it was stacked to the ceiling and fairly safe which leaves plenty of stuff to sort through and salvage.
Thanks for asking by the way. <3