All I need

[Keroin]

With a respective nod to Steve Martin...

Basic necessities such as food, water, clothes, medication, money, etc, aside, what five, specific items (material items only, not "the love of my snuggly pookums" or such) would you never want to give up?

If it helps, imagine you have to evacuate your home in an emergency and you are only allowed to bring five extraneous/personal items (size not being an issue in this odd alternate universe).


My five:

1. Passport
2. Laptop
3. Leatherman knife
4. Fishing rod
5. Photo albums/scrapbooks

 

[ownedsubgal]

in no particular order...memory box, collar, journal, ipod (way too much hard to find great music on there), fancy blue dutch oven.

 

[graceanne]

I'm going to assume that family and pets are obvious and go from there.

1. The stuff in my lock box. It doesn't have anything that valuable, but it does have a lot of hand me down type of stuff that's valuable to me. It also has difficult-to-replace paperwork.

2. Mine and the children's baby books.

3. The harddrive to my computer.

4. The family bible I inherited from my dad. It's all I got when he died, but it's all I wanted when he died.

5. Lillian and Jennifer. The only things I owned that made it through multiple moves. (They're dolls.)

 

[where]

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[Recidiva]

1. Medication
2. Medication.
3. Medication.
4. Medication.
5. Medication.

Just to be sure.

I can manage the rest. Without that though, I'd be begging to die right fast.

 

[Keroin]

1. Medication
2. Medication.
3. Medication.
4. Medication.
5. Medication.

Just to be sure.

I can manage the rest. Without that though, I'd be begging to die right fast.

*Ahem* Please note that "medicine" is included in the list of necessities in the OP.

I haven't slapped anyone this year, please don't be my first.

 

[Recidiva]

*Ahem* Please note that "medicine" is included in the list of necessities in the OP.

I haven't slapped anyone this year, please don't be my first.

Yeah, but it's supposed to make a point. I'd be stuck no matter what you said or whether or not you slapped me. You probably could slap me and I'd just feel important. Oh well. Then I'd still be lunging for the bottles.

You're speaking to a person who once lived in the back seat of her car for several months. I'm cool with very little.

But if I'm being sane and that's handled...

1. Kindle. (husband bought it for me)
2. Computer (husband built it for me)
3. Tortilla press (husband made it for me)
4. Sous Vide device for making perfect food (husband made it for me)
5. Avocado seedling. (Grew it from a seed this year. First seedling died in a heat wave. I tried to revive it for months and couldn't bear to abandon it. On the DAY that I decided to throw it out and give up, there was another seedling poking through the mulch. I am not giving up on you! Come with me! Don't die on me fucker!)

 

[Keroin]

Yeah, but it's supposed to make a point. I'd be stuck no matter what you said or whether or not you slapped me. You probably could slap me and I'd just feel important. Oh well. Then I'd still be lunging for the bottles.

You're speaking to a person who once lived in the back seat of her car for several months. I'm cool with very little.

But if I'm being sane and that's handled...

1. Kindle. (husband bought it for me)
2. Computer (husband built it for me)
3. Tortilla press (husband made it for me)
4. Sous Vide device for making perfect food (husband made it for me)
5. Avocado seedling. (Grew it from a seed this year. First seedling died in a heat wave. I tried to revive it for months and couldn't bear to abandon it. On the DAY that I decided to throw it out and give up, there was another seedling poking through the mulch. I am not giving up on you! Come with me! Don't die on me fucker!)

LOL.

And you are talking to a person who lived on The Rock for two years, where any carrot that couldn't be tied in a knot was a good carrot! Yes, I need very little to get by, too.

Yay on the avocado seedling! I grew two plants this year - tomato and pepper. My first time gardening...ever. It was stressful but exciting.

 

[Recidiva]

LOL.

And you are talking to a person who lived on The Rock for two years, where any carrot that couldn't be tied in a knot was a good carrot! Yes, I need very little to get by, too.

Yay on the avocado seedling! I grew two plants this year - tomato and pepper. My first time gardening...ever. It was stressful but exciting.

Most of my garden is now dead. I'm bummed. Two hard freezes in Florida in the past two years have wreaked real havoc. Some of it might come back, but I won't know for a few months and now I have a direct view on to dead and dying plants. The citrus trees made it, which is good, and the oranges are now ripe.

Those obviously aren't practical things, but right now they're the "irreplaceables" that come first to mind.

I probably should have said picture albums, but I could probably reproduce those from my daughter's obsessive collection. Pictures mean less to me than most though, I think. It never occurs to me to take a picture. Mostly 'cause I remember my mom taking them so often when I was younger that it just seemed like an intrusion. I'm weird about photos. They just seem like a pain usually. I don't mind if someone else takes them, but it probably won't occur to me. My husband and daughter take care of that for me.

I'm stressed 'cause my garden is dead, but I'll just replant...we're considering getting a puppy this year too, so maybe this is just pre-disastering the whole thing. I'll need to get used to new puppy digging up stuff. But if it touches my Rosemary, the deal's off. That plant lives through everything. But this year I did manage to grow jalapeno peppers and watermelon. I'm branching out from herbs to actual vegetables.

 

[catalina_francisco]

My Camera and lens
Laptop/hard drives
Sketching equipment
Books
My favourite walking shoes

(would have put music, but could access that through the laptop/hard drives I guess)

Catalina

 

[The_D_Void]

I was liveing out of a rucksack for 6 months last year,
So I can safely say that these five are mine:
1) Bass guitar
2) My knives (one german boot knife, one gurka knife)
3) My favorite books
(while my collection is vast, I practicly live in a library, I would have to say only Paradice Lost, Frankenstein and Devils Guard)
4) My RAF Regiment 16sqn Hip flask (was my dads)
5) Faulklands War Zippo (was my dads from the service)

Its what I took before, its what I'd take again.

 

[Keroin]

I was liveing out of a rucksack for 6 months last year,
So I can safely say that these five are mine:
1) Bass guitar
2) My knives (one german boot knife, one gurka knife)
3) My favorite books
(while my collection is vast, I practicly live in a library, I would have to say only Paradice Lost, Frankenstein and Devils Guard)
4) My RAF Regiment 16sqn Hip flask (was my dads)
5) Faulklands War Zippo (was my dads from the service)

Its what I took before, its what I'd take again.

Where did you and your rucksack journey to, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[ownedsubgal]

My Camera and lens
Laptop/hard drives
Sketching equipment
Books
My favourite walking shoes

(would have put music, but could access that through the laptop/hard drives I guess)

Catalina

hey "books" isn't fair! that's technically multiple items. if books (pl) were an option i would have said "my bookcase," instead of the ipod.

 

[Keroin]

hey "books" isn't fair! that's technically multiple items. if books (pl) were an option i would have said "my bookcase," instead of the ipod.

She's got a point, I did say five "specific" items.

*raises threatening eyebrow*

 

[The_D_Void]

Where did you and your rucksack journey to, if you don't mind me asking?

I was disowned by my family for my sexuality and kicked out the house.
I spent the time traveling up and down the UK from England to Whales to Scotland
And even northan island.
I had no money so I payed my way with music or "other activies" where I could
And walked the rest. I shall have to put some stories of my travels up at some point.
Eventually my travels brought me back to my home town of Oxford and while busking
My parents saw me and apologised and invited me back.

 

[graceanne]

Yeah, we grew up really poor and on more than one accasion packed what we could fit in my mom's hatchback and moved accross country. I've lived with very little and while I like living with nice could do it again and still be content. K does not understand this, but he grew up differently than me.

It's weird, how having lived with very little makes you a more content person (in general) than having grown up middle classed. When K and I first got married if we had a tough month and couldn't afford any meat but hamburger K would be all depressed, because we were so 'poor'. Then he'd get ticked at me for rolling my eyes, but I was all HEY WE HAVE A FULL FREEZER OF MEAT! Just the year before my stepdad gambled away all the money again, and me and mom and L (my two year old sister) lived on Mac and Cheese for the week. (I don't eat mac and cheese anymore).

Everything that I'd take with me, if I had to and could manage it are momento type things. Even my computer, because the main reason I'd grab it is cause all of my photo's are stored on it.

Oh, and OSG? So are most of my books. *pbth*

 

[graceanne]

Does anyone else think of Trace Adkins 'All I Ask For Anymore' when they see the title to this thread?

But when I bow my head tonight
There'll be no me, myself, and I
Just watch my wife and kids please, Lord
That's all I ask for anymore
​

 

[rida]

Practical list:
Passport
Credit card
Laptop
Suisse pocket knife
Towel

And if the rest of the world is not going belly-up, all the rest of the memories I'd like to keep are either available at my mom (all the kids pictures) or on-line (my writings). Same for books and music.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

1. My binder. It contains poetry and writing from when I was 14 until now.
2. My B.O.S. (Book of Shadows)
3. My cell phone
4. My jewelry box (Most of the things in it are not expensive but they are all pieces that my fam or loved ones bought for me)
5. My .380

 

[DVS]

1. My binder. It contains poetry and writing from when I was 14 until now.
2. My B.O.S. (Book of Shadows)
3. My cell phone
4. My jewelry box (Most of the things in it are not expensive but they are all pieces that my fam or loved ones bought for me)
5. My .380

No bullets?

 

[PertPerth]

1. Pink Ted (my first teddy bear - he sits on my dressing table)
2. My laptop
3. My scrapbooks
4. My hankie Weavie (my childhood nanny) made for me for my wedding day...it's still in it's plastic wrapper waiting!
5. Something I don't have yet

Pretty much everything else in my home is replaceable, or has already been stolen. I think I have too much stuff, most of which isn't very sentimental at all.

 

[seela]

1. My grandmom's recipe binder
2. Laptop
3. Flute bag, which equals four flutes. If that's bending the rules, then I choose the one flute that's been custom-made for me.
4. Global G-2
5. Yarn and crochet hook, so that I could finally learn crocheting while waiting for things to get back to normal.

 

[SimonBrooke]

With a respective nod to Steve Martin...

Basic necessities such as food, water, clothes, medication, money, etc, aside, what five, specific items (material items only, not "the love of my snuggly pookums" or such) would you never want to give up?

OK

1. At least one of my bikes; probably, if it had to be just one, my Cannondale (my cross bike would be more practical, but I don't love it the same way)
2. A knife
3. A decent pair of walking boots
4. A camera or my mobile phone (the phone isn't a great camera but it does do lots of other things)
5. My glasses!

 

[Primalex]

1. household contents insurance policy

 

[Vixandra]

1. My canines and felines (though there's five of them, but I'ma count them as one)
2. laptop
3. knife kit (has my cooking tools and knives for school)
4. the book of the day
5. Dolph, the stuffed reindeer I've had since I was a kid or my Stitch doll, depending on time allotted. I know exactly where Stitch is, Dolph's hiding some where at the moment.

Not sure if my pets are included in the auto-evacuation list, but if they are then my alternative is my faire box. Has everything needed for camping and feeding people except food. Always packed and ready to go. Has my nifty camp range and oven in it too.