personal effects

American  

plural noun

1. privately owned articles consisting chiefly of clothing, toilet items, etc., for intimate use by an individual.

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Etymology

Origin of personal effects

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

After receiving the report from the mountaineers, officers reached the site by helicopter to collect the remains and personal effects from the Ober Gabelhorn glacier.

From Barron's

Ours is an era when every shred of ephemera is for sale, so why wouldn’t a mourning son attempt to liquidate a killer’s personal effects to claim compensation for his mother’s death?

From Salon

Under that water, buildings, statuary, coins and royal personal effects came to rest, and waited to be found.

From The Wall Street Journal

But what really struck a collective chord were the images of abandoned shoes, backpacks, T-shirts, jeans and other personal effects.

From Los Angeles Times

It said the documents, which arrived in Argentina on board the Nan-a-Maru steamship from Tokyo in June 1941, had been declared as "personal effects" by the German embassy in Buenos Aires at the time.

From BBC