my sister lost everything in a house fire. what she regretted was the pictures. she had shared with our mother so she was able to get copies of most everything. when scanners became available, we scanned all of our pictures. and all of mom's. so now everyone of us has copies of all the old family photos. now we regularlly give cd's of all our photos to each other so if anything happens, there is someone with a copy of all of them.
i would grab a sewing machine if i had time.