I am learning Swedish myself. I found some lists here, not sure if they are written or spoken though. http://runeberg.org/admin/dictionary.html But with the 100 most common words you still can not say anything since there are so many words in Swedish, which makes the other list valuable, if you stroll down a little bit you'll see a list of 2000 common words in Swedish. This will certainly take up some time, lycka till!

Hej! That's exactly the same problem I have as well. Being not able to answer your question, I'd like to share with you my experience. Those precious things of mine are usually books, my drawings( even they are bad and from long time ago), souveniors which can remind me of certain people or events, and other odd objects I keep saving in my place. I never thought of throwing them away, it is heartbroken thing to do. Until one day when I was away, my dad cleaned the house and removed some of my collections without knowing what they were. Well it was not hard to understand, cause those things of mine were barely meaningful but some old packages, etc.. You can say I am collecting my memories which are reflecting onto something else. I bit my fingers and poled my eye, but I've got to move on. Eventually I think it is okay not to keep so many of them, I've saved the most precious ones in my head afterall. I don't know what are the things for you, but space is limited and you have to get rid of some of your past. Hope this helps. Hejdå

Oh & guitar too, it is a spiritual instrument också