What would a mustachian do?
We are moving from a 1700 sq.ft. house in VT to a 600 sq.ft. apartment in Manhattan for my wife's next step in training to be a surgeon. We have no plans to stay in NYC, and we hope to come back to this area of VT "soon", but there are no open surgeon jobs on the horizon right now, so it may be "a few years" until we return. We'll probably try out some other places in the US to live in the mean time.
We are selling most of the stuff that fills this huge house, but are debating what to do with all the tools. We rehabbed this place over 5 years and have a pretty solid work shop of hand/power tools in the basement that we built up to do the work. Probably $3k worth of stuff new, could be sold for 1/2 that maybe. My wife wants to keep them all in a friend's basement (it's safe and dry). I sort of think we should just liquidate it all, because: we don't know when we're coming back, hopefully any future house we buy won't need this level of rehab, we can always buy tools again, they're just "things". But, if we liquidate, we'd be getting dimes-on-the-dollar in terms of value for tools that work just fine...and that "feels bad".
So, Mustachians: Liquidate and walk away with no worries, then buy new again at some future date if needed? Or, save the tools frugally hoping that we come back and get value from them at some future date.
(fwiw, if we save them in the friend's basement, and several years from now we still haven't returned to claim them, I would not ask this friend to sell them for us. That would be awkward and is not an option. I would just surrender the tools to him)