I have a tendency to collect things and I've been working on not going into full blown hoarder mode.
Doing the "You have 5 minutes" drill is a bit different, if all I had was 5 minutes then all the pets would get out of the house first including the snake and lizards. If there was time to grab the computer hard drives, they would go next. My quilts and fabric never even made the list, that was good for me to know.
If I had a couple of hours to pack and a car to fill, I'd be filling it with life saving stuff, sure, a couple of blankets/quilts would make the list but I'm not sure the sewing machine would... guess I need a bigger car!
Hubby had a long appointment at the endodontist the other day, they had a book of inspiring quotes that I looked through. The one that stuck with me was "The important things are not things." That's a lesson I've had to learn along with things are not memories, we can keep the memories without the things.