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Your house is on fire, but everyone is safe and you've grabbed photos & mementos already. What one last thing do you grab?

Basically, you're standing outside with your family and pets. You've gotten your family photos or irreplaceable things with serious emotional value. You've got time to grab one last thing... something materialistic. What will it be?

Posted - April 18, 2019
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  • 6477
    Laptop and phone.. I'd be lost without them.. I don't really have much of value.. some old jewellery maybe but to be honest, as long as I had all of my pets I'd be ok. 
      April 18, 2019 11:06 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I'm screwed.  My parakeets of course.  But they are impossible to catch.  I let them have the run of the house and they would never let me trap and catch them.  They would be toasted.

    And if I opened the door and let them fly away?  It would be much worse for them.





    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at April 18, 2019 11:34 AM MDT
      April 18, 2019 11:09 AM MDT
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  • 1440
    unless you grab the cage out 
      April 18, 2019 11:19 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    They HAVE no cage.  They have the house.  They laugh at their cage.  Never bother to use it.  
      April 18, 2019 11:20 AM MDT
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  • I would make sure to grab a notebook I have with all our important papers in it.  I try to keep all that stuff (insurance/titles/birth certs/wills/credit card info/passports, etc.) in one place so I can find them quickly.  It would be a nightmare if I had to recreate or find all those things when we're reeling from a huge property loss.
      April 18, 2019 11:25 AM MDT
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  • Probably my favourite pair of jeans. I hate jeans shopping. 
      April 18, 2019 11:34 AM MDT
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  • 11151
    Probably my Christmas wool sweeter with a snow man on it - it makes me look ridicules and a bit fat but every year I have to wear it for the traditional family photo. So if it burnt up I would have a good excuse to get a new Christmas sweater. Cheers! 
      April 18, 2019 11:47 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I'm not sure that I would stop to think about what had sentimental value if my house was on fire.  I would grab my purse, laptop, folder with important papers and run.
      April 18, 2019 1:25 PM MDT
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  • 2052
    Everything in my bedroom. 
      April 18, 2019 3:28 PM MDT
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  • 2327
    Nowt! I'd just let it burn. 

      April 18, 2019 3:38 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I'd have to call out a top regiment of the SAS army guys to save my shoes.....They are all so irreplaceable....:(
      April 18, 2019 4:53 PM MDT
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  • 2052
    Metal work on my wall and my musical instrument.  
      April 18, 2019 6:05 PM MDT
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  • 17614
    A wooden purse that my mother loved when she used it back in the 60s. They were ultra popular wooden boxes with something painted on them, then shellacked.   My daughter wanted to take it when we moved mom down here to be close to us but I told her not while her grandmother was alive.  Not two weeks ago my mother asked me if I knew where that purse was.  I was so happy to tell her it was safe at my house.
      April 18, 2019 7:23 PM MDT
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