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Across the Fence:  what would you save?  |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 02 2006 : 8:19:44 PM
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if your house caught on fire .. and all your family and animals were safe and sound .. and you only had time to grab ONE personal treasure to save .. what would it be?
most women say: photographs ..
what would YOU save?
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2006 : 8:28:10 PM
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Oh that is hard!!  I guess I would have to agree, photographs....but if I could squeeze one more..lol...family heirlooms...I treasure them so very much and would just be crushed if I lost them!! But if just one..yes I would have to say my photos would be number one!
Hugz!
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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cmandle
True Blue Farmgirl
846 Posts
Catherine
Minneapolis
MN
846 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2006 : 9:15:23 PM
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Yes, as many photo albums as I could get my arms around. But I'd most likely be the one carrying the Boy so I probably wouldn't even think of it! This one sounds materialistic, but I would also grab my laptop if I could. Not just because it's a computer, but because we have EVERYTHING on it. Financials, photos (backed up too!), music, movies...
Catherine
http://yogurtandgranola.blogspot.com |
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
1646 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2006 : 9:21:10 PM
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The most important would be the baby pictures of my girls. But I also have a little pair of hand forged scissors that belonged to my great-grandmother that are a treasure. I have this vision in my head of the things this tiny little lady must have sewn. Oh, and a little recipe book in my grandfather's handwriting that was his when he was a baker.
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
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Bluewrenn
True Blue Farmgirl
1122 Posts
Erin
Texas
USA
1122 Posts |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2006 : 06:47:31 AM
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Well, when our house caught fire in 2000, I was at the airport taking my sisters to catch their flights home. My kids were the only ones home when the outlet on the back porch shorted and sent flames up the wall into the attic. They discovered the fire when they checked on why John Albert kept going back and forth to the bathroom to get pans of water. He was trying to put the fire out!! The kids went next door to my parents and called 911 while my dad came down and took all of the pictures off of the mantel piece. (Before flames came shooting out at him!) Fortunately when it was all over with, we found our box of family photos in their box in the hall closet, unharmed. The only other thing I wish we could have saved was the children's early school papers - awards and the little things that we had sorted out and kept. Those were in a box in the attic, which had the most damage. But, the rest of it could be replaced, they were just things.It's funny, but now I frame everything to a "before fire" and "after fire" reference. And I like the "after fire" better.  It changed our view of things and made us a much closer knit family. That was the blessing that came from our little disaster.
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2006 : 08:43:29 AM
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I would grab my grandpa's little metal head doll that he gave me years and years ago. It is pretty ugly to anyone else, but real important to me. I send enough pics to my mom to get reprints from her and other relatives if I had to, but that doll could never be replaced.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
Edited by - Aunt Jenny on Aug 03 2006 08:45:46 AM |
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2006 : 09:51:08 AM
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santa_gertrudis_gal
True Blue Farmgirl
198 Posts
Kim
Groesbeck
Texas
USA
198 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2006 : 11:08:30 AM
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Me, too.... pictures weren't my first thought. Relatives have enough to help me replace those and with our technology now it's easy to get copies.
I'd grab my grandmother's sewing box. Actually, it was my great-grandmother's making it an antique. I'd have to cry over the family dressers I have.
Kim
Heaven is a day at the ranch with my Santa Gertrudis! |
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Kathigene
True Blue Farmgirl
160 Posts
Kathy
New York
160 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2006 : 1:45:38 PM
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I'm whoever said the computer. I don't have very many photographs left and my family has proved that they will help me replace those. Just about my whole life is in the computer so it's pretty important. When I was wandering about last winter with no where to call my own, my computer was in the van and got hauled in to places if I was going to be there for a while. And it's not a lap top. Of course this is assuming my dogs and cat were safe. I would not leave without them.
And I'm not a mother. Perhaps I would be more sentimental about photos if I had children's photos to save.
Kathy
Dogs make such good friends because they wag their tails rather then their tongues. |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2006 : 6:21:35 PM
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I have always thought this out. I have two stuffed animals that I received when I was born. One was my mothers when she was growing up. It is a teddy bear named Teddy. The other is a Racoon that my dad bought the day I was born. His name is Rocky. They both go everywhere with me. I even still take them on vacation with me though I did quit sleeping with them when I got married 6 years ago. At night they sleep on my dresser at the end by the window. There are two reasons for this...1 - I could easily grad them if I had to leave quickly and 2 if for some reason the house was on fire and I couldn't get to them I could break the window and grab them of the dresser! There is absolutly nothing else that I would feel I had to have. I feel blessed with what God has given up but as far as I am concerned everything else (besides family and my two stuffed animals) is all replacable.
As far as photos - we have a digital camera. Every time I download photos I burn them to a CD. (If you don't have a digital you can bring your negatives to wal-mart and they will burn to a CD for 2.95 per 42 negs). Once a month when I go to the back to deposit my check I put my collected discs into a lockbox in the bank vault! Depending on the size of your images you can fit a few 100 pics onto one disc! Now if anything did happen I could get my discs from the bank and reprint ALL of my pictures. I even took all my old negs and had them transfered!
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
www.willowtreecreek.com |
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happymama58
True Blue Farmgirl
1210 Posts
Patti
Missouri
USA
1210 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2006 : 07:46:00 AM
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I've got all my negatives in the safety deposit box at the bank and I've taken pictures of all the things the kids have made me through the years, so I'd have those negatives, too, and the insurance agent said they'd pay for new pictures and new scrapbooks, so I wouldn't worry about those.
Hmmmm . . . oh, I've got it! I have a footstool that opens up for storage and inside it I have all the cards (Anniversary, Mother's Day, etc.) I've ever received from my children and husband. I'd grab that!
Some people search for happiness; others create it.
http://happymama58.typepad.com/my_weblog/ |
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Lovin Life
True Blue Farmgirl
103 Posts
Lisa
New Hampshire
103 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2006 : 6:33:41 PM
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I guess I would say pictures also. I have so many that haven't even been put into albums yet. A project for when i have a lot of time on my hands! I'd love to scrapbook them.
My family and pets would be first, then the pictures. I'd have to grab "Sniffy" too. My stuffed dog that my grandparents gave me when I was born. He's thread bare now but I think I'm taking him to my grave!
I'd rather live my life with a "full plate" than an empty one. Life is not a rehearsal... eat up! |
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ThymeForEweFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
705 Posts
Robin
An organic farm in the forest in
Maine
USA
705 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2006 : 7:24:38 PM
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A neighbor's house burned to the ground last Saturday morning. They were away on vacation and lost absolutely everything. There is nothing left. They with they had the pictures.
Robin
www.thymeforewe.com
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Kelly43
True Blue Farmgirl
349 Posts
NJ
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2006 : 9:02:07 PM
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So sorry to hear about your neighbors Robin, I can't even imagine. I too would save pictures. The first album would be an album my great aunt and uncle gave us for a wedding gift. It contains pictures of my relatives as far back as a great etc... grandmother who was a cousin to Queen Victoria and a great etc... grandfather whom died in the civil war, up to pictures of me as a kid on their farm in Nebraska, my favorite place in the whole world.
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ByHzGrace
True Blue Farmgirl
348 Posts
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Posted - Aug 05 2006 : 08:44:17 AM
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I'd save my guitar so I could stand outside and sing burning down the house!!!:::: my house::: 
I lost 99% of our photos/possessions to HurricanesCharley,Frances, and Jeannie in 2004 a couple of years ago and then set my kitchen ablazin this past year so it is no longer about treasures you hold in your hand ...my treasures reside in my heart and truly those memories that I've cherished live there saved to pass on to others.
And my family had oodles of photos that they gifted us back ya know the ones that I had sent them over the years.Sharing paid off!!!
Robin is there anything we can do to help your neighbors? |
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
1022 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2006 : 1:59:51 PM
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After evacuating too many times, we have this down to a science...first, the family!!! Spouse, kids and pets. That's all that really matters when it's all said and done. Next, P.O.D.s (Pictures of the dead) these are the really old family photos that can never be replaced.Then the folder with the important papers (birth certificates, etc. I hear they have these boxes you can rent in banks these days...hehehe)and Bible. Anything beyond that is gravy! I have evacuated with all of these things plus packed in my sewing machine, kid's books for school (they REALLY appreciated that) and my cast iron Dutch oven.
Robin, so sorry to hear about your neighbors. I will keep them in thoughts and prayers. Do let us know if there is any way to be helpful.
Sharon
Life is messy. Wear your apron! |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2006 : 9:11:13 PM
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I love the idea of burning your photos on CDs and keeping them in a safety box...great idea!! Can you do this with old b&w photos? You see I am getting all the family photos which no one else has in the family...it is a great honor but also a BIG responsibility!! Does anyone know if these can be somehow copied and saved on a disc as well? Thanks!
And Robin, so sorry to hear about your neighbor!!! It is so hard to loose everything and start again. But I am glad they were all safe!
Jenny, I think it is a lovely doll!! I am with you on saving it...what a treasure!!! Thank you for posting a picture for us to enjoy!! I am so sentimental!! Family treasures to me are the most valuable!!
Hugz to All!
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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