for clarity's sake, i own everything in my space and i purchased most of it with my own money. i received a large severance package when i was laid off from microsoft that bought about half of it and a good deal of it was purchased with recent lawsuit money won from suing the hospital or the grocery store. my grandmother bought the 64-bit pc, which i haven't actually set up yet. there are a small number of birthday or christmas presents from decades ago, limited to my broken jx-8p and some old equipment that i don't use much anymore, like a zoom effects pedal, the tascam 4-track and the windows 98 pc. three of my guitars were gifts from my father; i bought the rest myself. the stereo equipment is high quality but very old and was actually surplus equipment my father had and mostly bought at garage sales. i bought all my other computers, my bass, my pod, etc. it's about a 90%/10% split, in totality - i bought 90% of this stuff and 10% was gifts, but that 10% is stuff that was given to me in the 90s and is mostly very old and out of use.

there is no ambiguity on this point and i will treat anybody attempting to take ownership of my belongings as engaging in an act of theft that needs to be properly prosecuted by law enforcement.