aches and pains
dust and disorder
bunches of orphaned holey socks [missing their partners]
bags full of holey unwearable shoes i can't make myself throw out and which nobody nearby will repair
bags of holey underwear i lack the patients to mend
shoelaces from shoes long gone [i might use 'em for somethin' sometime]
remotes from long-busted and unfixable electronic components [dvd players, et al]
several thousand phonograph records [78s, 45s, 33&1/3 rpm LPs]
several thousand CDs
hundreds of floppy disc computer programs [DOS] that won't run on any 'puter made within the last 10 years or so
tens of thousands of newspaper clippings dating back to the 1970s
thousands of unread magazines dating back to the 60s
stacks of electronic components of various stripes [signal processors, dvd players, cd players, VCRs, et al]
various oddities such as corkscrew pencils, lumps of artificial skin [from the hospital drug rep], a rubber stomach [hospital drug rep again], a "hypodermic" pen full of fake red medicine, an audiocassette with "the sounds of mental illness" recorded on it, a CD recording of an orchestra recorded in a giant anechoic chamber [very weird-sounding!], a DVD movie "incubus" [starring william shatner] which was the only movie filmed entirely in esperanto, a recording of a synthetic cabasa digitally signal-processed so it sounds [on a pair of stereo speakers placed in an equilateral triangle relative to the listener] like it is floating beneath the ceiling above the speakers, a "neurophone" which purports to be able to bypass the human hearing mechanism by transmitting sounds to the brain's acoustic center via the peripheral nervous system [it "sounds" scratchy to me], too many others to list here.