We are in the process of purchasing the furnishings for our second home which are about to buy (I dont need my ear bashed about the morals of owning a second hime) and I slightly worry Im going to forget to purchase something essential and stand there on Xmas eve going "oh bugger I forgot to buy X". Obviously we've got the furniture: sofas, beds etc, white goods, hoover, bread maker, coffee machine, bed linen, towels, saucepans, frying pans, cutlery, crockery, some cooking utensils but looking at it all piled up it just doesn't seem like enough stuff furniture aside it could effortlessly fit in the back of a large estate car. We've moved a lot in the past and there were boxes and boxes of crap stuff every time we packed up, we've needed a large removal van to shift it or maybe we've just got too much stuff in our current home.
We don't have to buy everything now but what do you think is essential in your home?