Robbery

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GRRR. As many know, I recently had to leave my home and move into a travel trailer-- and I stored all my stuff in a storage unit. Because we have an extremely light population here, and almost no crime, and the storage shed is on the property, I just stuck a padlock on it. At any rate--- my trashy next door neighbor, which is a story all on its own, parties, and drinks, and neglects her kid, and entertains all kinds of local druggies etc. All the neighbors are constantly calling Child Protective services, and the sheriff, and her landlord is trying to evict her--I have been very ill for several weeks, with the flu and double pneumonia, so I hadn't had a chance to go fishing, or to photograph all the jewelry I needed to put on my Etsy site. So now that I am better, I went to the shed, intending to take the pictures, and then go fishing. The padlock was still on, but the hasp had been forced on the door-- and all my expensive fishing poles, all the finished jewelry (including stuff already posted on Etsy) and all my beading supplies were gone-- along with about half my stockpile of dried food. I know you're thinking I'm a ditz for not keeping the jewelry in the trailer-- but this trailer is 26x8, and there was NO ROOM. I had 6 large boxes of jewelry supplies alone. The shed was packed all the way to the door, and now it's half empty. The old TV and all my books are still there, and my life jackets and other stuff--but all my good cookware, my craft and jewelry supplies and the finished jewelry are gone. The fishing poles alone were worth over 1000.00--we won't even getr into how much the jewelry and supplies were worth. I called the sheriff, and my insurance company, but the sheriff said with identifying marks and a picture inventory, I'll probably never recover anything. And the insurance company wants an inventory list as well, they sent out a claim investigator-- but of course I only get replacement value, at wholesale, for the supplies, and many of them AREN'T replaceable, because they were vintage-- and they can't even process the claim without an inventory list (and being an organized person, I had the inventory for each box taped to the box, so I could just grab the boxes I wanted. So now I have to try to re-create that inventory from memory. Since I have to try to describe, from memory, over 80 pieces of jewelry, I'm basically screwed. But I am heartbroken about the fishing poles-- the other half loved his poles, and I loved mine. So now, I spent an hour and a half today moving every single thing into this trailer. I literally have a 1 foot wide path to the bathroom, the computer, and less than half the bed to sleep on. It is like living in a CLOSET. I am going to go nuts. And I am ANGRY. Because this was a nice, quiet neighborhood until that trash moved in. have you been robbed? Did you ever get your stuff back?