I was reading this in a Ray Bradbury tone, that the movers were the State taking all valuables.
I never realized it till you posted that, it does kind of sound a lot like something Bradbury would write...I have no idea how many of his books and short stories I’ve read over the past 50 years... Fahrenheit 451 is probably the best of them. 451 is the temperature at which paper burns...Bradbury and Heinlin are two of the best sci-fi writers out there, and Roger Zelazny is another favorite...others too, Larry Niven, Arthur C Clarke...