If you had a fire and could only grab one thing from your home what would it be

@ESKARENA1 (18261)
January 21, 2007 6:14pm CST
If you had a fire and could only grab one thing from your home what would it be and why would you take it?
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18 responses
• United States
22 Jan 07
I'm assuming all kids and animals are out & safe already ... so I will go with the only other "materialistic" thing that means anything to me and that is the picture of my dog Hershey, hanging on the wall. He will never be around to see again and I would be torn to someday lose that face in my memory. The kids' pictures can be copied from others in the family so I wouldn't worry as much about that. But to be honest, there is nothing in my house that I value more than my kids and pets so there's nothing that can't be replaced. Things are just things.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
22 Jan 07
i understand where you are coming from my friend its why i started this thread was to see if we could rank things, we seem to do with people
• United States
22 Jan 07
I would grap my children. Because they are my world
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
22 Jan 07
yes i would imagine that would be the case for most of us thank you
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• United States
24 Jan 07
If anyone has children, then i do believe that that would be their answer to to this question.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
24 Jan 07
Ouch that would be difficult because we have four cats and it would be a horrid decision to make, which one to choose, and then afterwards feeling sick because you had to choose leaving the others to perish. Hopefully the animals would have sense enough to escape out the cat flap, who knows and I never want this to happen. Possessions you can replace, animals and humans you can't so my first priority would be with my beloved cats.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
24 Jan 07
ok, the discussion really assumed all humans and pets have escaped but none the less thank you for your answer
• India
23 Jan 07
my daughter who is my life . my husband take care his own .
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
23 Jan 07
hahaha poor guy
22 Jan 07
I would most deffinately grab you and make sure you were safe your a very special person believe it or not xx blessed be xx
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
23 Jan 07
haha thankyou, im late with the response because i didnt realise it was for me but there you go, ill let you grab me anytime we dont need a fire blessed be
@scrawl (374)
• India
22 Jan 07
Assuming the living things can look after themselves, and the pets ofourse, and each one of these guys would be carrying the important things.... my guess would be the treasure chest, of course... Can also claim it from the insurance !!!! Sorry, had to be different thatn the rest.. everybody was being so condescendin x
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
22 Jan 07
hahaha ill mug you for your treasure chest just to make your day complete. Just a note for the hard of thinking, that was irony, i dont want people telling me off for being cruel nice response, keep on posting blessed be
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
22 Jan 07
all of you haqve got a plus rating by the way, just because i might not reply, do not assume i dont read
@scrawl (374)
• India
22 Jan 07
Esk.....dude.... thx.... You would have to fight really hard for that.... Would never take chances.. would break it up and give it to the guys around.. justin case.. Cheers
@peaceful (3294)
• United States
24 Jan 07
My Runestones, My Book Of Shadows and my New York Times Cookbook... in that order! :) Good question, Esk!
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
24 Jan 07
thank you for your thoughtful reply my friend , lol i also have a new york times, but from the day of my daughters birth
• United States
22 Jan 07
Material things are replaceable. I would get my cats out of the house.
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
22 Jan 07
I would grab my little Dog as I love him very much everything else can be replaced but never my little Dog so he would be the one thing that I would grab
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@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
22 Jan 07
I grab my mom then my sister's and brother;) I do all my best sir to save her because she is the very important person in my whole life. She give her all her effort's and best to grow us in a good values, She is the one who care's us, and give a moral support to us. When I was a child until now. So it's my chance to save her no matter what happen to me because my mother is my life, my inspiration. As I remember she save me once when I drown at the river although it's very deep, but she never lose her hope and she find a way to save me. She's very strong to face the very fast flow of water as long as she get me out to the river. Then she successfully save my life. And also the second one is my brother and sister's because they part of my life too, but i want to make sure first my lovely Mother;)
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
22 Jan 07
yes my friend, i think we often underestimate the importence of our parents, i miss mine each day. I lost them both on one night, what a card game that was, lol keep on posting
• Philippines
23 Jan 07
I would make sure all my family members are safe... I would also never forget to bring along with me my baby teddy bear... i love her so much, she's the dearest thing to me.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
23 Jan 07
hahaha that is just sooooo cute, you made this old man smile again my friend, blessed be
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@nuffsed (1271)
22 Jan 07
Assuming all the living things were saved lol... the family photographs. We lost a whole pile in storage at one time, when the storage company went bust and lost loads of our stuff. Yes Photos, you'll never realise how important they are and how much you miss them. just make sure your fire alarms are working init? lol
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
23 Jan 07
yes they trap moments in time and we can never have that time again, once its gone, its gone for ever
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@nibory (177)
• United States
24 Jan 07
This actually happened to me and I wasn't able to grab anything because it happened while I was at work but the one thing I miss the most are the pictures we took at Disneyland when my son was 3 so that's what I would have grabbed.
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
24 Jan 07
ohhhhhh yes i know how priceless such pictures are
@JJireh (26)
• Philippines
24 Jan 07
since i'm living alone, the only one thing i would grab of course is my attache case where i put all the personal documents i have. i already anticipated such unforseen incident like this you know
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
24 Jan 07
yes i think it is always good to have contingency plans
@BunGirl (2638)
• United States
22 Jan 07
I would probably die in the fire. I would not leave without all seven of my animals!
@adnan82 (672)
• Pakistan
22 Jan 07
i will look for my cell phone :)...
• India
22 Jan 07
i think firstly i'll try save my mom n dad...n theni'll think of material stuff i'll also try to extinguish the fire
@vthluv (40)
• India
23 Jan 07
I will grab my family members in a jiffy as their safety is most important to me.
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
23 Jan 07
but what one thing after your friends family and pets