I helped out friends who owned an auction company - two days a month for three years. The best stuff i saw was from a family of hoarders. Five generations of them. They never threw away anything besides trash. They were clean but didnt throw stuff out. Ever. Once the house and barn was full/outdated, they built new ones on the property. A total of 3 houses, a cabin, 2 barns, and a few sheds full of stuff - like time capsules stuck in time when they locked the doors and moved next door. It took a team of seven a week to move stuff to the auction house, clean, catalog and price. The best items were an 1839 breakfront which sold for $90,000 and a kid's tin toy in the box from the 20s. I think it sold for about $6,000. The family cars and trucks were not put up for auction but there had to be at least a dozen - almost all British and sports cars, which I found odd for an old southern family in a tiny Georgia town.