If your home burns, what would you grab quickly to salvage??

[Edward]

I am a few psych sessions past being a "hoarder" BUT if there was a fire in my house I would likely be the one to go up in smoke. Likely paralyzed by trying to decide which of my stuff to save.

We've now begun in earnest clearing out a lot of stuff so we can renovate the flat properly. I am realising I have developed a very pronounced hoarding problem; yesterday, we had a row about a jacket I agrered to bin because it had sustaned some bad moth damage - I wanted to cut off and keep the buttons for spares. (Old, West German naval jacket.) I find myself regretting doing the "right thing" and backing down (utterly gracelessly as I did).... to the point where I've already put an eBay watch on a bunch of the buttons. If I'd not been accompanied to the binroom, needless to say, those buttons would be in my jacket pocket on their way to my office drawer right now. I'm also furious with myself because it turns out that it's not going to be so easy to replace the jacket after all (two years ago, when it was bough,t they were eveyrwhere, now all the surplus stores only have a handful of tiny sizes), so maybe I should have tried to rethink how bad it was.....

In terms of fire, a dark and unpleasantv part of me would actually currently welcome a housefire because it would be infinitely easier than this death by a hundred cuts of being forced to clear out stuff I don't want to let go, but know I have to. Which probably more than anything says it's a real problem I have.

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Polo is a very handsome boy. Well soon be looking for a couple of kittens to keep our Greta company; she's been on her own since her sister Marlene died about eghteen months ago. If only we could take in a couple of little souls fathered by this magnificent beast!

 

[2jakes]

We've now begun in earnest clearing out a lot of stuff so we can renovate the flat properly. I am realising I have developed a very pronounced hoarding problem; yesterday, we had a row about a jacket I agrered to bin because it had sustaned some bad moth damage - I wanted to cut off and keep the buttons for spares. (Old, West German naval jacket.) I find myself regretting doing the "right thing" and backing down (utterly gracelessly as I did).... to the point where I've already put an eBay watch on a bunch of the buttons. If I'd not been accompanied to the binroom, needless to say, those buttons would be in my jacket pocket on their way to my office drawer right now. I'm also furious with myself because it turns out that it's not going to be so easy to replace the jacket after all (two years ago, when it was bough,t they were eveyrwhere, now all the surplus stores only have a handful of tiny sizes), so maybe I should have tried to rethink how bad it was.....

In terms of fire, a dark and unpleasantv part of me would actually currently welcome a housefire because it would be infinitely easier than this death by a hundred cuts of being forced to clear out stuff I don't want to let go, but know I have to. Which probably more than anything says it's a real problem I have.



Polo is a very handsome boy. Well soon be looking for a couple of kittens to keep our Greta company; she's been on her own since her sister Marlene died about eghteen months ago. If only we could take in a couple of little souls fathered by this magnificent beast!

I’m sincerely sorry for your loss.
I don’t want to make assumptions
so I will asked, who is Greta?

Good luck and my best wishes that you
find what you are looking for.

 

[Edward]

I’m sincerely sorry for your loss.
I don’t want to make assumptions
so I will asked, who is Greta?

Good luck and my best wishes that you
find what you are looking for.

THanks. This is Greta:

A reclining, tabby Venus on the sofa she also destroyed(!). She has been warned about the next one.

This one is Marlene:

Sisters from the same litter, they came to live in my flat when they were just seven and a half weeks old. Marlene, sadly, was born with abnormally small kidneys, which we discovered when she was diagnosed with renal failure at the unusually young age of seven. She died in my arms exactly a week before their eighth birthday. Heartbreaking, but the vet reassured us that she wouldn't have suffered any pain. She certanly slipped away very gently at the end. Bloody cats, eh?

 

[sheeplady]

We had a cat die of renal failure. He just went to sleep over 3 days. The vet said it makes the cat euphoric. It was a peaceful death.

 

[2jakes]

Polo enjoying nice weather in the backyard.

I usually find him by Porsche (Burmese) which died last April.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Sadly, my fine 17 1/2 years old Black-Matrix CRT-TV would be to heavyweight to carry away fast.

 

[Woodsrunner79]

Babygirl and the kids.

I already keep copy's of important documents, a bit of cash and a spare piece offsite.

 

[HadleyH1]

pets are always first.

always. ALWAYS

(after family etc,,)

 

[Trenchfriend]

And if time is enough to get to my wall-unit, I would grab my important papers.

 

[Zombie_61]

pets are always first.

always. ALWAYS

(after family etc,,)

I'd probably die of smoke inhalation before I could retrieve our cat from behind the couch, which is her favorite hiding place when she wants/needs to feel safe, but I wouldn't give it a second thought.

 

[scottyrocks]

I'd probably die of smoke inhalation before I could retrieve our cat from behind the couch, which is her favorite hiding place when she wants/needs to feel safe, but I wouldn't give it a second thought.

Hopefully, the cat would be out of there as soon as you opened the door.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I wouldn't have to rescue the cat. The cat would rescue me.

 

[sheeplady]

Very true. Year's ago we had bats get into our house on two occasions, nights when we were asleep. We woke up to our cat jumping on our bed as the bat circled above it.

Poor bats.

 

[Cornshucker77]

These two would be the first out the door!!

 

[Zombie_61]

Hopefully, the cat would be out of there as soon as you opened the door.

That's possible, but she's strictly an indoor cat who only leaves the house for vet appointments and boarding when we go on vacation so the outside world might frighten her more than the smoke and flames. I'd like to think she'd come to me for protection, but once that flight/hide response kicks in she can be unpredictable.

 

[scottyrocks]

That's possible, but she's strictly an indoor cat who only leaves the house for vet appointments and boarding when we go on vacation so the outside world might frighten her more than the smoke and flames. I'd like to think she'd come to me for protection, but once that flight/hide response kicks in she can be unpredictable.

Yeah, I know what you mean. We had taken in a stray years ago that I don't think I ever saw unless I wanted to spend time under the sofa.

I assume he ate and evacuated when no one was home, or in the dead of night.

 

[Zombie_61]

Yeah, I know what you mean. We had taken in a stray years ago that I don't think I ever saw unless I wanted to spend time under the sofa.

I assume he ate and evacuated when no one was home, or in the dead of night.

We adopted Shadow when she was only a few months old and she's normally very affectionate and loves to sleep on our laps. But sometimes she just wants to be left alone and has a few favorite hiding spots in our house, so part of the problem in the event of a fire would be finding her first.

 

[1mach1]

Besides humans, I'd say the cat and the Colt Python .357

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[tonyb]

Sadly, my fine 17 1/2 years old Black-Matrix CRT-TV would be to heavyweight to carry away fast.

You can't give away a CRT television or computer monitor over here. Seriously, the charity thrift stores don't want them because they can't sell them for enough, or quickly enough, to warrant the space they would occupy in the store.