wow what a qestion and one i actually think about alot because well i'm paranoid about fire. yes i know i'm strange. i won't leave the coffee pot on, won't go to bed or leave if my dryer is on. have even drove back home to turn off the coffee pot..my best friend says it's not healthy and down right strange, but hey i never said i wasn't strange. anyway
my collar would be the very first thing i grabbed (if i didn't have it on, which is only when i sleep)
my computer (just the tower, it has alot of stuff on it that i couldn't get back)
my adooption creed that my mom got for me for christmas the year before she died...it's a sweet little plaque that says "not flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, but still miraculously my own. never forget for a single minute,you didn't grow under my heart, but in it" so yea, it could NEVER be replaced.
that's my three things..everything else could be replaced and i wouldn't be too worried about it, as long as my kids, and my cat made it out....
* My precious doll collection
* I'd also grab my favourite novel Lost Horizon from the shelf.
* and a little antique chinaman I inherited on my mothers'death
I don't have children, I don't have an SO, I don't have pets. *sob*
I'd take the teddy bear my dad bought me from the first money he made on his job when I was a few months old. And the pearl necklace my grandma gave me for my exam that used to be hers (we made hers into two and both me and my sis got one). The rest can burn.
I am very unmaterialistic so the only thing that I would really miss would be the photo's, the only reason I'd take the lappy is for the unsaved photo's and all my internet banking/insurance details and the phone for practical reasons...to phone the fire brigade and my mum to fetch the kids.
We have regular fire drills here. The kids are teens and would hopefully get out but they and the cats would be my main concern. Things really don't matter much to me. I learned that when my Dad died.
I stay in a somewhat hurricane-ready mode so the really important documents and the cherished things like baby books are in a file box. Easy to grab and go. (note to self..copy pics from hard drive onto CDs and throw them into box)
Something I've thought about a lot before, and I have sooooo many precious possessions, but books can be replaced and new computers and other electronics can be bought.
I would take my stack of computer cds (pics, stories, etc are on them)
And my stack of my fav. video tapes
And my trunk of baby stuff (okay, it's heavy, but it's so important to me!)