Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Prized Possessions

I picked this up from Planetdan.net (He's a guy I went to high school with who is now a photoshop mastah. In a weird co-inky-dink, Jabas was the one that turned me on to the sight. After looking through his pics I soon discovered that "oh, I went to HS with this dude". We were in German together.)

Anyway, with everyone in my family moving/recently moved (And in light of recent tragic events) we've all had to take stock of our stuff and (in an especially painful gesture for my mother) get rid of a fair majority of it. I told my mom "If it is something that you would take from your burning house, or would want buried with you: Take it to the new place. Your 5 cent paperbacks in a box out in the garage do not count." Mother tends to associate her stuff with memories, so parting with it is akin to forced amputation.

So, I put it out there: If your home/apt was going bye-bye due to (Insert catastrophic happening here) what would you save? Try and keep it under 10 items. And pets/loved ones don't count

I'm asking, because I look around my place and it all has value- yet I don't have anything that I'd call intensely valuable. (See Planetdan for that) nothing autographed, nothing rare...nada.

1- My running shoes.
2- My bathrobe
3-My picture box ('nuff said. It's heavy, but they're all in there)
4-My cell phone
5-My ichi-yen necklace. The only lasting piece of jewelry I own. I would destroy my own home to find it, were it lost.



If I wound up in a world ala' "The Stand" and had to travel with a back pack.
(And besides the necessary camping oddities)
-Comfy black walk/run shoes. Ninja shoes, dig?
-Comfy cargo pants. Yeah, I'm kinda Dirk Pitted, so?
-Zippered Hoody
-My Multi-Tool pocket knife
-Gum
-My bathrobe
-Michael Jacksons HIStory (Greatest Hits) Way I see it, Michael Jackson is like the Roman Empire of Pop Music. Rise, Decline, all that jazz. Plus, as I wander the earth like the "Omega Man"...I gotta have something to strut too.

Pretty basic.

3 comments:

tallen said...

My skates
My bowling ball
My journals
My 'puter
My jewelry box

crap... I don't know... I've never thought about it.

P said...

Yeah Momma 2. I'm just not as endeared to stuff as much as I was when I was a kid.

My cat is too stupid to know to get the heck out, so I'd have to be a hero and save'im.

And yes. Himself wants and needs a new Kilt.

Museumreplicas.com

is where you can get'em! Order a catalog for future dates!

Portana said...

Hrm, not a big fan of "things" but I would take my lap top, my blanket that me grandmother knitted just for me and my jewelery box. I might grab the two boxes of "memories" under my bed, but eh. Oh, and my hope chest, it was custom made for me and has artifacts of my life in there as well. The rest can go. Dont care, dont need it.