personal effects

pl.n.
Privately owned items, such as keys, an identification card, or a wallet or watch, that are regularly worn or carried on one's person.

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noun

One's portable property: belonging (often used in plural), effect (used in plural), good (used in plural), lares and penates, personal property, possession (used in plural), property, thing (often used in plural). Informal stuff. Law chattel, movable (often used in plural). See owned/unowned.

A vague phrase used to describe tangible property having an intimate relation to the decedent, such as clothing and jewelry.
110 N.Y.S. 2d 584, 585.

(DOD) All privately owned moveable, personal property of an individual. Also called PE. See also mortuary affairs; personal property.