Apart from one bike (and for some of us – which one?), what would you keep to fit in one large (90 litre bag)?
I'm currently in the process of rationalising my possessions and am making this choice, but wondered what others would keep??

Wedding album, laptop, sofi the cuddly elephant, mobile phone and fill the rest with as many books as I can.

(I am assuming that keeping my bike means I get to keep my cycling jacket etc and tools from the shed to keep my bike going).

tools from the shed to keep my bike going)

you have to select which tools you need

fill the rest with as many books as I can.

going to sell all mine (so watch the classifieds) and get an e-reader

you have to select which tools you need

All of them! Thats why I bought them – buy them as I need them!

However to answer your question – allan keys (1.5mm to 12mm), spanners (6mm to 20mm inc cone spanners), pedro tyre levers x3, screw driver with a thing of bits for it, BB tool, cassette lock ring tool, pliers at a minimum.

going to sell all mine (so watch the classifieds) and get an e-reader

No dont do it! E-book readers are pish at the moment – costs the same for books through official channels as it does for the paper ones and they just are not as nice to read from.

Keep your books. Please!

Posession rationalisation is very theraputic. After getting too cluttered we went through a month where each night we found two posessions each to give away or sell. Suprisingly easy to liberate 120 things so we did another month. It has changed our approach to buying new stuff.

90 litre bag is quite extreme. I'd go for a posession count instead and keep a bike, some photos and some clothes.

My huge stack of porn mags.

Keep your books. Please!

Give your books away, join a library.

I had to rationalise – partly because my business and life generally went t!ts up and stuff had to go and partly because I moved into the caravan.

Getting rid of loads of crap was amazingly liberating and continues to be so. Everything I buy now has to "earn its keep" – that can be either in terms of usefulness or, more rarely, in terms of sentimental value – some photos, mementoes of my (now dead) cats and dog, a few small trinkets.

You've reminded me that it's time for another purge…

One of the twins

LOL which one? The nice one I guess? Who would want to keep the horrid one eh?

Good question! We are moving into a much smaller flat (2 bedrooms instead of the 4 we have now). The question is … what do you do with all the stuff you want to get rid of? Some things are easy and can be sold or given to charity, but there are some things that seem a waste to bin, but no-one wants them, for example, a Minidisc player. What use is that in the MP3 age?

have you been thrown out of the house?

four monkeys… the equipment to start a one-man-band… the contents of my fridge.. my son.. my laptop.. a comfy folding chair and a couple of duvets..

Buy another bag ??

Heh heh !!! The neighbours have run us out of the area!

(No, we just realised that we are essentially paying rent money to store stuff in unused bedrooms, which seems a bit stupid. Better to move somewhere more suited to our actual living needs and deal with "stuff" in another way.)

Minidisc player – donate to a museum – I am serious, find one locally that has a science and technology collection. They might not want it but they might bite your hand off for it.

This seems easy in films – character decides to leave, throwsa a few things into a bag and jumps on the Greyhound bus. Shows up next scenes with different clothes, books, guitar etc etc etc.

No dont do it! E-book readers are pish at the moment

Horses for courses then. I have an hour plus commute by train and I wouldn't be without my BeBook. There's a fair bit of media online that can be had and the BeBook is essentially a linux system so no messing about with DRM only or anything.
Battery lasts a couple of weeks, and I charge it at work from the USB port, takes about half a day at most.
Got a 2gb card in it and something over a thousand books that hardly dent the storage capacity.
It's also got a built in MP3 player – not that I use that really.
So, I think it's great. Also useful for directions etc to job interviews.
But then I'm not an iPhone person so perhaps I'm different.
Reckon on about once a fortnight at most between being asked about it….

Minidisc player – donate to a museum – I am serious, find one locally that has a science and technology collection. They might not want it but they might bite your hand off for it.

That's not so daft – I have been in a museum where they showed stuff I used to have. First generation Sony Walkman etc.

But then I'm not an iPhone person so perhaps I'm different.

This seems to be the new Godwin's Law – all internet discussion must at some point gravitate to criticism of the iPhone. Gonna call it "DrJ's law" and be famous 🙂

Might be worth a punt on ebay for the minidisc

Might be worth a punt on ebay for the minidisc

Thanks, might give it a go. Bit of a disappointment. I bought it in Tokyo and was pretty smug to be the first person I knew in the UK who had one, but it essentially gathered dust since then.

My / a washing machine.
(Never leave home without clean shreddies)

I'd fill it with money.

The bikes. The HiFi. The bed. The sofa.

Hmm. Have to be a bluddy gert bag, though…

@DrJ. No not at all, I think it's a marvellous piece of technology.
I'm just not an owner – my current mobile works as a phone fine, and I have a laptop in my backpack every day on the commute, so watching movies etc is better on that, when I'm not reading (which is rare).
I must confess to iHate for the Apple marketing hype – not their kit, but the whole 'lets put an i or an e followed by a capital letter'. Rounding everything off and making it white like a 60's plastic chair isn't much better either.
But the iPhone, and what it can do, great.
And noted the smiley, so no malice intended!