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Burning Down The House.

Cormac135

Cormac135

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What single thing would you save from a house fire ?

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Children and pets don't count.

I'd save a metal box i have with all my info in, Birth Certificate, Passport, etc, etc.

What would you save ?
 
My Calvin Klein collection?

Really the only thing I'd value enough to take the time to get is my cat. My wallet and keys are always in close reach so I wouldn't be going out of the way to get them, and my important documents are in a fire safe.
 
Since the wife and kids are a given - the cat.
Given the house is all electric, we don't have to worry about a gas leak.
 
My two dogs. I'd be wracked with guilt if I had failed to save one of them.

Besides my dogs, my wallet, phone & inhaler would be the first things I'd reach for...
 
Gosh, Cormac, I thought I was the only one who started a thread only to have no one heed the rule (question).

What SINGLE thing, and wives and children don't count.

For me, I'd save my grandmother's diary. It is one of the few things that could not be replaced.
 
OK, since I misread the rules - and it says children and pets don't count, but no mention is made of partner, I guess that means my wife.

It that was an omission on the part of the OP, maybe my laptop, since it's on the way out.
There are a lot of things I'd want to get, but given life and limb and locations, ...
 
That's a tough one. Either my birth certificate or an old photo album. They're both in the same box so it's not cheating if I grab the the box, right?
 
NotHardUp1 said:
Gosh, Cormac, I thought I was the only one who started a thread only to have no one heed the rule (question).

What SINGLE thing, and wives and children don't count.

For me, I'd save my grandmother's diary. It is one of the few things that could not be replaced.
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Is it packed with fun and adventure, was she one of the first to arrive in America ?

GreyUnderscore said:
That's a tough one. Either my birth certificate or an old photo album. They're both in the same box so it's not cheating if I grab the the box, right?
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Damn, i'll need to put my family photo's in my box as well. #-o
 
Que sera' sera', Cormac.

Scan them and put them up in Flickr or Tumblr and you won't have to worry about it.
 
Cormac135 said:
Is it packed with fun and adventure, was she one of the first to arrive in America ?
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No, although she was definitely a feminist pioneer for her time. For a woman born in 1910, few of her generation earned a bachelor's degree at age 65, and even fewer of them took a computer science degree at age 73. I will never reach the marks she achieved in her long life.

The diary came to light by accident as my brother and I demolished her former home. She was more than a bit of a hoarder, so the attic was nigh impassible. There was a thin old freestanding medical cabinet leaning forward, spilling its contents. In them I found her little diary from the 1930's and 40's. My mother was born in 1931, and the diary started maybe when she was six.

There were entries about stopping by the bakery at midnight on the way home from the cinema and eating a whole loaf of fresh bread as a snack between the three of them. There were notes about her gardening project. There was an embarrassing swatch of a calico print with a little savage with a spear in a grass skirt, a blouse or dress had been made of it for my mother.

But I'd save it for the heartbreak. My grandfather was a philanderer, a side of him I'd never heard of until some 10 years or more after his death, and then never from Grandmother. He had an affair when he was 40 that almost ended the marriage. Grandmother was 35 and mother was 14. Granddad was in love with Elsie, an employee in one of the stores he managed. She was but 17.

Granddad's parents put a great deal of pressure on him, although that wasn't in the diary. He had moved out to a hotel in preparation for abandoning his family. At some point, he gave in, gave up, and returned home. Soon after, he gave us his business job troubleshooting store accounts and moved the family back to his hometown. They built a house next door to his parents on the family property.

Once I learned more of the bits and details, I reasoned it was part of why Mother was so cynical about life, about religion, about society. I think she worshipped her dad, even after all that. It must have been devastating to her to see him walk out on them when she was only 14.

My grandmother never said anything negative about my grandfather, ever. She loved him through all that, and more, as he had obviously had other affairs before that. She nursed him during his decline with emphysema, and went back to work to support them when he no longer could.

It reminds me that people are tough, and that love and forgiveness are irrational. It changed my perspective on people and purity.
 
Thanks. It was just about her diary. She actually cut out major portions, so I got the expurgated edition. I never told her I found it. Seemed rude to bring it all up some four decades after it happened.
 
I would have to go with my wallet and my passport. Those are the most important things, since my wallet has EVERYTHING in it, like my social insurance card and my birth certificate (it was issued in 2001, when they were still small enough to fit in a wallet, and they came in a plastic sleeve). Then my passport isn't far from where I keep my wallet, so I can just grab them both and run. They're in my bedroom where I have a very large window that can easily be climbed out of in an emergency.
(I know I shouldn't keep my birth certificate in my wallet, in fact, I had a scare a few weeks ago; I thought I lost it, and that would have been really bad because of my SIN card and my birth certificate... if someone got a hold of both of those, they could do anything.)

If there's time, I'd probably grab my photo albums and my laptop; they're both located at my desk, with the photo albums in a cabinet nearby.... but that's only if there's enough time.
 
Cormac135 said:
What single thing would you save from a house fire ?

House-on-fire-o.gif


Children and pets don't count.

I'd save a metal box i have with all my info in, Birth Certificate, Passport, etc, etc.

What would you save ?
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My box is made of cardboard, also contains photos and state/federal ID. Since I quite smoking I haven't had much use for ID anyway.
 
It's all started from an idiot who doesn't know how to cook
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Holy Crap! What've you done Danny!!?

then..
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*..there's literally a flash drive that the same cost of my life.
 
Wallet probably. I can't think of anything I own that isn't easily replaced. I'm not a big one for 'sentimentality' and collectables. Most of what I own now lives on in the digital world - photos, tv shows, etc - about the only thing that would be a pain to replace is my credit card and that lives in my wallet.
 
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