It's easy to say "just throw it out" but so many items have nostalgia and memories attached. Yet if I hadn't had to sort through it all, I never would have missed that stuff.
I need to get on it. I'm not getting younger.
I have the impression people are selling more to "make sure it ends up with someone who can appreciate it" than to make a profit, and that's a good example to follow in other niches than vintage computers I think.
* - not appropriate archival medium, of course.
That's the thing I hate most about doing deep cleans. I end up emotionally drained from nostalgia. If someone else had thrown away all the mathoms while I was on vacation, I'd never even notice they went missing.
However, I sold my grandfathers STHL chainsaw, and that guy still uses it.
I don't know anything about the man but his profession, and that he bought good tools. But I often think of him when I use them.