One of my long term goals is consolidating and scaling down on assets to make it easier should I need to relocate or move down to a smaller place to live. Since there is no guarantee anymore that any job is secure one of our potential threats is loss of job/income or reduction of income. I tried to plan for this by having a smaller house to give some room in the budget and making sure the assets I have are small and portable. No big knickknack collections, no collecting of books, magazines, papers, etc. No big computers/network anymore, scaled down to a pair of 9" netbooks then added hdd and ram so they meet our needs.