Your house is on fire....

External hard drive
The (almost) final printed copy of my unpublished novel
Photos, especially wedding ones

Laptop bag (contains laptop and important documents)
Phone
Purse

2 guitars that I've had for ages and my PC backup drive.

And I've had to do this recently, not fire but flood, all good in the end but it sharpens the reflexes.

Nothing. You get more sympathy when you lose everything.

Purse
Pictures\Videos
laptop

Cell phone.
Pongo. (stuffed animal)
Wii.

Let's see....

1. Playstation 3

2. 42" Tv

3. Controller

(don't judge me) :laugh:

My house burned to the ground back in 2007 during the big ice storm in Oklahoma. Because the city was basically shut down and fires popped up everywhere it took the fire department 30 minutes to get to our house after the phone range a good 5 minutes solid.

Now that I think about it - I wouldn't do it again. I got the kids out, the cats out some personal items. I was actually in the tub when my husband at the time came in and told me the house was on fire. I ran nude to grab clothes, at that time I could see smoke gathering in the ceiling. We moved quickly as possible, but the smoke kept growing and growing and we had to bend down to avoid the smoke. We inhaled a lot of smoke. We knew it was finally time to get out when we heard the ceiling rafters fall.

I was sick for days my chest hurt.

My house burned on July 3, 2011. We got out, got the pets out and tried in vain to put it out and then called the fire department. It was caused my a cigarette but that set the outside of the house on fire and then got into the roof and took the whole thing down. I woke up about an hour after going to bed to check out what that funny smell was. turns out it was the vinyl siding in flames.

Though I had time I was in too much shock standing there to even think about what to run back in and grab. I was just glad my son was in my arms. I just kept thinking, thank goodness we have insurance.

In hindsight now I would have grabbed my grandmothers gramaphone that was left to me, my laptop and a few cassette tapes that had me and my dad singing when i was a little kid and my grandma teaching me to say stuff in Ukranian. Still makes me sad that Ill never hear her voice again

Other than those few things and the loss of 2 cats the next few months from related issues, it was a blessing in disguise because we have a nice new house and all new stuff. What a way to de-clutter! But seriously, Ive never felt so lost as to wake up in my parents place the next day (thank goodness for them and all our great friends and even total strangers who came to our rescue) with not even a toothbrush or a bra!

Purse

Clothes

Pictures