Exactly the same here. DH died last year and I finally got myself together last month and organised a skip, which I have taken two weeks to fill. An assortment of his junk collected over 50 years! Every old and broken piece of electrical equipment, bits of wood, screws, nails and you name it he would keep it. Things that 'might come in useful one day'. Stuff that he could raid for spare parts. Every empty cardboard box, every half empty tin of paint, old tvs, computers, radios; broken slide projectors and VHS recorders. He hated going to the tip, so everything went in the garage. Never got the car in it, so our (very) expensive Jaguar sat on the drive.
DS and DSil have had what they wanted, so I called Tools for Self Reliance to see if anything will be useful to them, but they haven't got back to me yet. Yesterday my window cleaner fell on them eagerly, so I let him take what he wanted. (Written about this today in the Good Morning thread). Still 4 bikes to go, but the Tools charity will take those and renovate them. Neither of us had been on our bikes for well over 20 years. I can't quite get used to the amount of empty space left in the garage! It's been hard thinking about the history of things as they get put in the skip, remembering how proudly and eagerly we bought them and used them till they either broke or were superseded by the next new thing. But they have to go, and I have the memories to look back on.