So, Susan... What are your most prized possessions?

[susandennis]

I actually peeked at this question a day ago and so have been thinking about it. Plus with people evacuating their homes across the country this Fall, it's given me excellent fodder to a similar but different-ish variation.

Turns out, as much as I love my stuff. And I do love my stuff a whole lot, there's actually very little that falls into prized. When I think of prized possessions, I think of those things that, if they went away, could not be replaced.

• My blind teddy bear, James, who is, like me, 68 years old.


• My pencil drawing of a wild haired man that was drawn on the back of a temporary license plate by my prisoner friend, Carl (from college days)


• There is other special non-replaceable artwork that I have and do prize.

But, basically, that's it. Everything else is either digitized and saved elsewhere (photographs) or totally, fairly easily, replaceable.

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You have 30-60 minutes to leave your house maybe forever, what do you take? And I'm going to assume, it's in my Smart car that I'm leaving.

2 pairs of pants, 2 tops, coat, 1 pair of shoes, pills, inhaler, toothbrush, hair brush, purse & house cash (a stash I keep for emergencies). Catfood, litterbox, cat carrier, cat. My phone/charger, laptop/charger/a bunch of external batteries, my external hard drive that is not backed up to Google. My house papers (deed and stuff), and birth certificate.

Then if more time/room - my windows laptop/charger, one of the fleece blankets and that small pillow, a cardigan and some socks. My backup phone/charger and maybe my one good tablet/keyboard and/or my Fire tablet that has LTE with sim. And some snacks.

Comments

[lifeinroseland.livejournal.com]

Omg you still have your first teddy bear! :D

I have a pink bunny gifted to me by my aunt when I was still in uterus, but it lives with my parents.

Cute little things :)

[susandennis]

His name is James. He was given to me by my Mom's boss who was Indian and had a name no one was comfortable with so he called himself James and that's what I always called the bear. He lost his eyes very early on. I implanted some replacements but somehow he lost those, too. My dog (the one I had in the 70's) chewed his face off so he had to have plastic surgery to rebuild his snout. But, he's still hanging in. He lives in the sewing room next to Alf.

[lifeinroseland.livejournal.com]

And he's so cute! James lol. What better neighbor than Alf?!

[mike297.livejournal.com]

Lol the first thing I would take would be my Phone headphones and my music and laptop and my charger of course as I couldn't cope without them.Most importantly my daughters pics from birth to now are all on my laptop so yes that would be all that matters to me.Oh and my workout Bike if I could fit it in.Also my meds .

Hmmm ...

[sweetwilla.livejournal.com]

This is a really good thing to think about. Being the same age I have similar feelings about "stuff". My glasses and my cocker spaniel are my essentials.