That sounds so sad to me. I moved all my things from my parents house when I moved to Cambridge, and they've moved house since then. Occasionally something of mine will turn up, but very rarely now. And yet I feel like I'm going home when I visit my family in a house I've never even lived in, and which contains none of my belongings. Perhaps because it contains the people I love.
Re: We need a better word than mere 'forgetting'