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Let me think... you have stuff, Phandalin desperately needs stuff. 

Hmmm... 

[Ashley] Oh I know, let's get a cart and travel for days across the map!

I didn't think of that.

Also Phandalin is cut off from trade for at least a cycle (moon cycle) or so as the news of the defeat of the Goblin menace spreads.