Selling your stuff at an auction

It is pretty sad that you see most everything you grew up with be sold for a dollar a box.. My mom just had an auction to sell her stuff so she can move to Florida and live with my brother during the winter and then come back and live up North here during the summer.. There were boxes of good things being sold for a dollar, at least 6 drawers of screws, nails, nuts and bolts all sold for a dollar.. If it did not sell, it was being thrown in a dumpster. So sad that her stuff was being thrown out like it was junk... She was also selling her house at the auction, and a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom house all brick that was on a double city lot went for was less than the minimum bid. Sad that the auctioneer was pushing for her to sell the house, but it was in his best interest for her to sell the house so that he would get his cut.. It is just some crap that she was bullied into basically giving her house and things away...  But who am I to be concerned about it....