If You Could Only Have One Suitcase For The Rest Of Your Life, What Would You Put In It?

[SamVoght]

I'm working on an essay for school about the amount of things people have and if and why we (think) need them.
Please add your age and the country you live in for me to get an idea how the answers differ from person to person.

[rockyracoon]

Female, 49, Essex

Photos of the family, birth and marriage certificates, money. That's it, I think.
Hang on. My nice new sparkly dress that I look good in, it'll take me through to my dotage.

[mightymouse]

Delpo.

[nailit]

male/50/uk
Ive had times in my life where ive literally had nothing and in some ways it was strangely liberating. I now sometimes feel as though I'm drowning in possessions even though I don't actually own that much and I'm forever 'clearing out'.
If I had to live the rest of my life out of a suitcase then a few clothes, toiletries, books and personal paperwork would suffice.
(and half a million in used notes...)

[237SJ]

That depends on the size of the suitcase

[DTCwordfan]

a waste paper bucket for all the garbage in your life.

[Baldric]

A Marble Bust of Margaret Thatcher and a gallon of Antifreeze.

65 UK

[DTCwordfan]

Mr. Putin drinks that, Balders, by the quart.

[gness]

Evening, Sam and welcome to AB... I'm sixty six.... in the UK.

I assume we'll have the necessities and you want to know what we would keep from all the stuff we clutter ours lives with?

If so....I'd have all my craft materials....some special books and music.....my makeup and a hairdryer......x

[Arksided]

It'd be a sportsbag, Contents: a few photo's a change of clothes suppose some toilettes.... I'm quite adaptable

Age unknown
Country England

[anneasquith]

Family photographs, lipstick

[Arksided]

.. oh MP3 player, I'd be lost without music.

[DTCwordfan]

One bachelor (English) in Shanghai in the communist exodus of the city, ignored the usual clothes, personals and photo/jewellery and went down to the Royal Shanghai Cricket Club and unscrewed the brass plaque of the wall and took it out. For decades, it hung in the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club and then became the trophy between them and the then newly constituted Shanghai CC. I played in the first match.....we in Shanghai lost respectably.

[anneasquith]

DT are you on the wrong thread?

[Arksided]

Lol... I hope so.

[DTCwordfan]

Nope - read it for Christ's sake.....

[anneasquith]

Don't be so rude!

[gness]

You'll need to spell it out for me, DT......I still don't know what you want in your case.....x

[DTCwordfan]

well 95% of Scots have no appreciation of cricket and the same percentage probably applies to the level of Scottish alcoholism in the Hongs, so I m not surprised at the reaction expressed here.

[Arksided]

I wouldn't want to be working in the airport when he comes through with his suitcase.