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Since you brought up the word “kaboodle”, the words “kit and kaboodle” interested me. I thought you would be interested in this as I was so I wanted to share:

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http://askville.amazon.com/origin-phrase-kit-kaboodle/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=1967653

Seems to date back to mid-18th Century, probably British, and connected to a kitbag

Hmm, pretty cool to read up on this one. I knew the meaning, but not the origin, gotta admit. You’ve got to know that a kitbag, or kit bag, is what soldiers called their bags that held, well, everything they needed to carry around with them. Kit may have come from “kith,” which mean one’s estate, one’s belongings, hence the connection. Thus, the “Whole kit” refers to everything you’d normally carry, I guess best compared to a suitcase today? Heck, maybe a woman’s purse, tho’ it was originally meant more in what you’d need to travel from one place to another, so I’m thinking an overnight bag at the very least would come closest to representing the idea.

What I really found interesting is that Caboodle or Kaboodle didn’t start out as caboodle. The “k” sound was added for the sheer pleasure of sound. It was originally “boodle,” which was the word used to describe a collection of things, even a collection of people. Thus, “kit and kaboodle” may have originated with the idea of bring along your bag and friends, or your bag and anything else you can think to bring.

According to http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/2/messages/329.html , Caboodle once was even something of a legal term, meaning “estate” and was used in legal documents.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-who2.htm notes that the full phrase was listed in Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1785 and can be found in US dictionaries as “the whole boodle” as early as the 1830s. It goes on to connect the phrase to “bootie.”

“Boodle is familiar as the relatively modern US word for money illegally obtained, particularly linked to bribery and corruption. This is usually suggested as coming from the Dutch boedel, “inheritance, household effects; possessions”. But it’s uncertain whether it’s the same word as the one in the whole kit and boodle. Some writers suggest the latter comes from the English buddle, meaning a bundle or bunch (closely connected with bindle, as in the North American bindlestiff for a tramp).”

Cool question, fun to research. Thanks for asking!
Sources: http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/MurrayWaldrenscolumnThats.html