What's the point in keeping stuff you don't want and will never use? When my very old died we had to clear out her house and we found cupboards full of unused stuff that we presume had been given to her, including ancient boxes of chocolates and bottles of wine and spirits. I'm sure some of it was wedding presents, there were bed linens, crockery, cutlery and towels which she had probably been keeping 'for best'.
I know she sometimes struggled for money, it was upsetting to find hundreds of pounds worth of unused and unwanted things