your house is burning

[cosmo105]

what do you grab?


me:

cat (and some of her toys and a blanket to keep her comforted)
framed portrait of said cat
laptops
camera
framed leaf from a road trip
my knives
karate belts
nunchucks
music box from Paris
dreamcast cartridges
a couple trophies and certificates from my school days


really not as much as i thought i would want. i guess as long as i have my husband and my cat i'm set. you?

[M|X|Y]

lol @ karate belts :D(y)

this is very fitting because im in the process of TRYING to throw a whole bunch of shit away - wanting to simplify my life. i'm off week and i keep procrastinating. everytime i go back to it i move two things and get annoyed. i can't throw anything away!

that being said, what would come to mind right away would be

- glasses
- wallet
- hard drives
- photos
- blingz
- voltron


maybe my karate belts too

[Randetica]

my tons of clothes
my tons of shoes
ear jewlery collection
my handbags
laptop
photos
dvds
cds
tassimo
cell phone
childhood toys
and maybe my pets


i should probably buy all those things again and store it somewhere else cause it would be impossible to get everything out without getting burnt aswell

[MC Moot]

If my house is on fire,I suspect that the cat is likely to be directly responsible...as his latest thing has been juggling flaming Sai as part of his kata...damn cat....

[MCAadROCKMiKEd7]

Id grab (I actually dont have many important things lol)


My stuffed animal scooby ive had since I was 4 (shut up.)
All my beastie albums and books (theyre all one spot, easy to grab.)
Ipod and charger/Phone and charger
Family photos I have in my roomThats about it.

Oh and my glasses!

[ms.peachy]

We actually have what we call a 'grab box', just in case something crazy happens like massive social unrest breaks out and we need be airlifted out of the consulate or something. (I've become friendly with a couple who had to leave Egypt last year under just those circumstances... )Or, you know, a fire. It's got photocopies of all of our important documents (passports, visas, birth certificates, marriage license, etc etc) plus all that stuff scanned onto a disk, as well as disks of my kid's baby photos, other family photos and so forth. Other than that I don't care so much, so long as my family is safe. I have lots of awesome things, arty stuff and cultural stuff we've collected over the years and as we've traveled but at the end of the day that stuff is just stuff.

[lolkat]

i would grab Deez Nutz

[cosmo105]

We actually have what we call a 'grab box', just in case something crazy happens like massive social unrest breaks out and we need be airlifted out of the consulate or something. (I've become friendly with a couple who had to leave Egypt last year under just those circumstances... )Or, you know, a fire. It's got photocopies of all of our important documents (passports, visas, birth certificates, marriage license, etc etc) plus all that stuff scanned onto a disk, as well as disks of my kid's baby photos, other family photos and so forth. Other than that I don't care so much, so long as my family is safe. I have lots of awesome things, arty stuff and cultural stuff we've collected over the years and as we've traveled but at the end of the day that stuff is just stuff.

That's a brilliant idea! I need to get on that.

[abbott]

my glasses, wife and kids

[Helvete]

A dog. I don't have a dog, I'd just grab one.

[MC Moot]

^ I think you should remove the ammunition before it goes off like a mexican fireworks factory...

[Bob]

goddamnit, my house is burning, i don't have time to make posts on the internet

[Helvete]

what do you grab?


me:

cat (and some of her toys and a blanket to keep her comforted)
framed portrait of said cat
laptops
camera
framed leaf from a road trip
my knives
karate belts
nunchucks
music box from Paris
dreamcast cartridges
a couple trophies and certificates from my school days


really not as much as i thought i would want. i guess as long as i have my husband and my cat i'm set. you?

A PICTURE OF YOUR CAT THAT YOU'RE ALREADY RESCUING?! SHIT'S BURNING DOWN! Dreamcast games you could get on eBay for like $5 a piece too.

[alleyezonme6198]

I'd only have to grab one thing. One of my fav candies.

A Life Saver (y)

[cosmo105]

A PICTURE OF YOUR CAT THAT YOU'RE ALREADY RESCUING?! SHIT'S BURNING DOWN! Dreamcast games you could get on eBay for like $5 a piece too.

It's not just a picture, it's a painted portrait (http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlym9ZCw01r9cqe4o1_500.jpg) of her that's basically going to be a family heirloom.

Plus, it's not my games, it's my cartridges. I spent YEARS building up those achievements in Sonic Adventure 2 and Jet Grind Radio and Shenmue and I am being buried with those.

[Micodin]

Dogs
Laptops
Hardrives
MPC 2000
MC-505
Graffiti Vandal Satchel
...

If there is time whatever art I cab grab off the walls before the bitch burns to the ground.

...

I'll be gutted due to the fact the vinyl would be too heavy to get out. I just have too many damn records!

[b-grrrlie]

Most of the B-section of my vinyl collection.
And the cats.

[Randetica]

i forgot to mention my ipod maybe cause i usually carry it in or on my body anyway

btw this is actually quite some bragging thread 'oh look at me, i got kids'

[Helvete]

It's not just a picture, it's a painted portrait (http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlym9ZCw01r9cqe4o1_500.jpg) of her that's basically going to be a family heirloom.

That's brilliant. Mental, but brilliant. I like cats.

[Adam]

Phone

[befsquire]

My purses, and my top ten fave shoes. I then make Dr Deaf grab the rest of the shit, hoping it's mostly mine and not his.

[MCAadROCKMiKEd7]

A dog. I don't have a dog, I'd just grab one.

That's fucking too funny

[insertnamehere]

Wallet, phone, kitty, and feather pillow that I've had >1/2 my life that I require to sleep. As a bonus, the pillow is mostly empty and can be bunched up in the bottom of the pillowcase, so I can throw the cat in there for temporary storage.

[Beckalina]

A fire would give me a good reason to start my DVD collection again but in blu-ray form.

I'd grab....
My dog, Bo
A cartoon of me shooting my friends that a friend of mine made for me.
My box of letters and important things
My photo album (the one with the photos before digital in)
My hard drive (forget the laptop, I could get a much better one with the insurance money)
And any alive people in the house. (except for that really annoying guy that everyone hates)

Edit: forgot, I'd grab my Lego pervert Justin lee Collins too.

[Helvete]

I'd grab my crotch and moonwalk those flames out

[Documad]

ha ha

[Randetica]

My purses, and my top ten fave shoes. I then make Dr Deaf grab the rest of the shit, hoping it's mostly mine and not his.

lol (y)

[na§tee]

like peachy said, most of my stuff is just stuff, it's by the by. it's a cliche, but probably photos, as they are irreplaceable. for some reason i cannot fathom my dad kept all of our family photos in an unsealed bag in the shed, in the middle of the outer hebrides, and when i went to clear our his house after he died i discovered that most of them had melted, disintegrated, were ruined beyond recognition. it was the most heartbreaking thing about it all. coloured ink just smeared and smeared and wiped off to nothing.

on rare occasions you would find everything gone save the face of one person in the middle, that's it. i was so angry at him for not looking after them properly (he wouldn't have known that would happen to them though). i saved what i could - probably only about 10% of an entire family history's worth - and put them in a photo album. old school! but did i learn from my lesson and go home and back them up digitally, or store my own photos? did i 'eck. i should get on that.

i'd also save my insurance documents. if i had insurance. fuck...

[Matt]

I'm looking around my room, and honestly, I can't find one thing that I'd grab. We have copies of all our documents stored off-site, so we're covered there, and while I do have some things of value, I wouldn't care to grab any of them in a fire. I'd likely just leave everything and make sure everyone got out safe. I'm becoming less materialistic as I get older, I think. By the time I'm thirty, I'll be living in a minimalist apartment right out of an Ikea catalog.

Scratch that. If I have time, I'll grab my guitar, but that's about it. It's got sentimental value. Everything else can be replaced.

[roosta]

my laptop
my tshirt collection
a hoodie (it might be cold outside)

if pushed maybe my Alan Watts books, but everything is replaceable really.

[Pres Zount]

I've got one or two sentimental items, but the only thing I would really make a great effort to grab would be my laptop, since it has a crapload of photos and other assorted things on it.

I'd be quite happy to let a lot of the stuff and clutter I have burn, since I've been slowly but steadily giving stuff away anyway. People think I'm going to commit suicide, but I just don't care for piles of clothes or video games that much anymore.

Maybe instead of a fire it could be a gang of homeless people come into your house and take everything in it, that would make me feel less wasteful.

[Freebasser]

Nah, the hobos don't sound like an urgent enough threat.

I think we'd have to make a compromise here, like a pack of savage wildebeest smashing through your front window and taking your DVD player and some packets of crisps; the good flavours, like beef and onion and beef & onion.

Also some of the wildebeest are on fire.

[zippo]

it would be interesting to see the answers for this question throughout someone's life to see how their priorities change, but as for me now, I would taaake...
off the top of my head:
my laptop
my cell phone
my wallet
and a sweater because it'll probably be cold at night

[Freebasser]

and a sweater because it'll probably be cold at night

Say... you didn't go to school with Bob did you?

[zippo]

what why

[Freebasser]

No reason.

[HEIRESS]

I just bought a kitty cat (First since I was 8 and had mine taken away because my brother developed asthma) so I finally have something to add to this thread.

-My kitty.
-My hard-drives (all 3tb worth).

[little j]

some pants
my kid
the file of important papers (passports, birth and marriage certificates, car titles, etc, its a small file)
my phone

seth is supposed to grab the dog and his wallet

and then we meet across the street.

eww we have a plan and crap!

although i'd probably only make it out with the kid, and if he has the dog i'll be ok with that.