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

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  • 17-01-2017 1:49am
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    Bone Cancer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 30 ✭


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

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


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    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


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

    My house


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    Stravos Murphy
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    The wifi router.


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    The Backwards Man
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    The dog


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    Shannon757
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    Myself


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    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    The dog

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


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    Duff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭Duff


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


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    DrGreenthumb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 720 ✭✭✭DrGreenthumb


    Probably the rainforests


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    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


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    Simi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭Simi


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


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    Shannon757
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    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. :D


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Shannon757 wrote: »
    You'd be toasted by the time you get out with that lot. :D
    I'd be packing a bag :D


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    [Deleted User]
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    Photographs and some things belonging to my mam :)


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    Greentopia
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    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.


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    Bone Cancer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 30 ✭Bone Cancer


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


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    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    I'd be packing a bag :D

    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.


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    jamesbere
    Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    I'd try and save money on my house insurance


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    Outlaw Pete
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    The smoke alarm.


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    jomalone14
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭jomalone14


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


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    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭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.


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    omb0wyn5ehpij9
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    Wallet
    Keys
    Phone
    External hard drive (I have virtually all of my photos on it)


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    LordSutch
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    Kids
    Wife
    Myself
    Old family albums
    smartphone


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    Sophie_
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    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!


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    #24
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


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


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    Boom_Bap
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    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.


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    kfallon
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    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 :o


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    Caliden
    Registered Users Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭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.


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    endacl
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    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.


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    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Definitely my PC.


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    marketty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭marketty


    Suppose I may put on some jocks


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