If you woke up and the house was on fire, what's the first thing you'd try and save?

Bone Cancer

Apart from the obvious like pets and kids (not the wife, she's passed her sell by date )

I have an Atlantic Star service medal that my father got in WW2, nothing he owned made him more proud.

Tigger

if I woke up and my house was on fire the first thing I'd want to save ?

My house

Stravos Murphy

The wifi router.

The Backwards Man

The dog

Shannon757

Myself

Tigger

The Backwards Man wrote: »

The dog

He says kids and dogs are a given
The wife depends on the miles on the clock

Duff

Living on my own, my laptop. I'd never find all my good bookmarked porn again.

DrGreenthumb

Probably the rainforests

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Assuming all living bodies were out, I'd try get my photos, my last birthday card from my dad,my designer shoes, some of my handbags, my phone, my favourite pillow, my makeup bag and a change of clothes

Simi

Phone, wallet & keys? That's probably all I'd grab. They'd be the most hassle to replace

Shannon757

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Assuming all living bodies were out, I'd try get my photos, my last birthday card from my dad,my designer shoes, some of my handbags, my phone, my favourite pillow, my makeup bag and a change of clothes

You'd be toasted by the time you get out with that lot.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Shannon757 wrote: »

You'd be toasted by the time you get out with that lot.

I'd be packing a bag

Photographs and some things belonging to my mam

Greentopia

Computer, then passport and birth cert-I'll need them both a lot this year in particular. Computer because that's how I see my fiancé every day on Skype. Would be lost without that.

Bone Cancer

Do many people keep fireproof wall or floor safes? The wife wants one to keep stuff like passports and important documents.

Shannon757

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I'd be packing a bag

A bag of course. I had this image in my head of you carrying all that stuff on your shoulders like Atlas with the world on his shoulders.

jamesbere

I'd try and save money on my house insurance

Outlaw Pete

The smoke alarm.

jomalone14

Once myself and my 2 dogs were out safely, I actually wouldn't care about the rest, all replaceable.

Rented Mule

I keep a hard drive offsite with a backup of all family pictures and such.

If the house was on fire, I would go straight for my guitars. I have a pretty nice collection amassed over the years.

'84 Charvel Superstrat - Slime Green - MINT
'88 Fender American Standard Stratocaster - Blonde
'89 Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster - Candy Green - MINT
'87 Ibanez RG 550 - White (beat to ****)
'01 Music Man Albert Lee Custom -Blue Sparkle (prototype - two humbuckers)
'13 Gibson Frank Zappa Roxy SG (one of only 400 made)

I would just hope that the other 30 or so didn't end up as kindling.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Wallet
Keys
Phone
External hard drive (I have virtually all of my photos on it)

LordSutch

Kids
Wife
Myself
Old family albums
smartphone

Sophie_

Myself, hubby and our dogs.
If it's was the middle of the night would you grab some clothes that you have perhaps on a bedroom chair?

I have all important files, photos etc., stored securely on a cloud so I wouldn't lost those precious photos.
I never keep money in the house 'cause I don't have any!

Winterlong

A sleeping bag. Homelessness is hard enough without a sleeping bag.

Boom_Bap

The TV, phone and laptop.

After that I'd be running to the shed to get all the sh*te that's been piling up there for years and throwing it onto the fire to get rid of it finally.

Anything not replaceable I guess. Most things like computers and the like are replaceable. There are books and old letters and things that are not so probably those. Oh and the folders of notes and recipes and the like I have built up over years of cooking.

Oh and a large towel. Douglas Adams taught me that.

kfallon

A racecard in my bedside locker! Obviously wallet, keys and phone too, they'd be on the locker too.

Given that I like to sleep in me 'pelt' I'd prob like to grab a pair of jocks too

Caliden

Herself, my wallet and keys.

Wouldn't even be fussed about the phone or computer. Everything is backed up anyway and I've got contents insurance.

endacl

Having seen two houses go from smoke alarm>full of smoke>fully ablaze in the last year or so, if I couldn't grab it on the way to the door, it's kindling.

It takes fuqall time.

TerrorFirmer

Definitely my PC.

marketty

Suppose I may put on some jocks

IvyTheTerrible

My laptop and my mini filing cabinet with important documents in it. You're screwed in France if you don't have the original paper copies of some stuff like payslips etc.

ScumLord

I'd make sure the immersions off that's for sure.

xzanti

My phone so I could call for help.
Our filofax thing that holds all our documents, passports, birthcerts etc.
Our wedding/engagement rings.

Parchment

Watch my mom gave me, expensive coat and handbag, car keys, passport, bicycle.....so basically i would try to cycle out of the house in my most expensive clothes.

s4uv3

I wouldn't pause for a thing, probably grab my phone because its always beside me anyway, but honest to fook you wouldnt have time for any "stuff". Even the ten seconds it would take could be too long.

maudgonner

ScumLord wrote: »

I'd make sure the immersions off that's for sure.

Double check the cooker is turned off and the hair straighteners are unplugged...I'd be worried they might cause a fire.

corner of hells

The firegaurd, it'd keep me safe running out the door.

timmy880

I wouldn't like to be caught in a fire with many of ye, we'll never make it out with all the stuff....!

Grab the phone beside the bed and the missus and run for the door or hop out the bedroom window.

January

Would be grabbing anything, once the kids and the husband are out that's all that matters, anything else is replaceable, even the birth certs and passports.

BetsyEllen

I have the jumper that my Grandad took off and folded up next to his bed before he passed away during the night. Still has his scent after 2 years.
I would save that along with a musical box that my Nan used to play to me to send me to sleep.

ebbsy

Minge.

BraveDonut

Golf clubs first - then kids

Electric Sheep

I lived through a fire where others died. There is NOTHING worth risking your life trying to save unless it is a human being.

clairewithani

BraveDonut wrote: »

Golf clubs first - then kids

Ha ha. You must be my cousin Paul.

Hollister11

My cats and dogs.

Bone Cancer

Bone Cancer wrote: »

Do many people keep fireproof wall or floor safes? The wife wants one to keep stuff like passports and important documents.

I have a fireproof box, not a safe though.

In it are my important documents, old photo albums and a few other things I don't use much but have sentimental value to me.

If I was running out of a flaming building, I'd grab whatever was on the route to the door, but mainly I'd just get the hell out of Dodge.

tayto lover

I can envisage myself running out the door in a pair of boxers and carrying a bag of golfclubs.

beertons

Marshmallows. No point in letting a good fire go to waste.

clairewithani

tayto lover wrote: »

I can envisage myself running out the door in a pair of boxers and carrying a bag of golfclubs.

I am on a diet and your name made me suddenly long for a bag of Tayto. Damn cravings.

tayto lover

clairewithani wrote: »

I am on a diet and your name made me suddenly long for a bag of Tayto. Damn cravings.

I just convince myself that they're calorie-free. That way you don't put on any weight.