....in this house with a basement as many northern Ontario homes which used to have the basement of a house with just the furnace, washing machine and dryer if you had one, and a wee bit of storage, and then they became made into liveable areas, rec rooms, an additional bathroom, etc., but what many houses also have and we unfortunately do is a 'crawl space" because its a tri level home... well, the crawl space has all the furnace ducts in it, no windows, rough cement floor and height of unfinished ceiling, which is really the floor above, is around five feet high... I am five feet tall and have to bend my head where the overhead pipes are, my husband has hit his head numerous times and even cut it.... however, because we have so much STUFF it has shelves and counters and a washing line type affair on which hang dozens of coats for all seasons; Christmas decorations, boxes of seasonal clothing, wine, its packed and I pity the one who is left to clear that lot out let alone the rest of the items in the house as has to bend head to move around! ... nothing much of value just another excuse not to get rid of things we no longer use or need! We come under the heading PACK RATS. However, I did recently go through it and upstairs and had a sizeable donation to a nearby PET SAVE organization which has a used items store and on line auction... an old but excellent shape hand made queen size quilt I donated fetched 450 dollars Canadian so I feel good about that. I am all for downsizing, as long as someone else does it for me!!!! ;-D