one caution I'd like to add, for Alan, or anyone else thinking of getting rid of something you already have:
from my own past experience ( i once moved 8 times in 5 years, and because of this, got rid of a LOT of 'stuff', that i had been 'saving in case i need it'), it sems to be a corollary, of Murphys Law, that once you get rid of something, it won't be long before you are slapping your forehead, because NOW really need it