My house.
Snoop
I have two dogs you monster!
Then they must merge
Ed…ward
Put that back where you got it.
Living beings != things
The house
I save my cat! All of my other shit can be replaced.
My cat. He may be a total asshole, but still my number one top priority. Everything else can be replaced in one way or another.
Reallisticaly nothing more that myself. My PC is wired and heavy, and what else matter? Guess depends how fast is burning the house, give me 10 minutes and I will save mine computer with even monitor.
Documents like SSN cards, passports, birth certificates, titles, etc can be a huge pain in the ass to replace.
If you don’t already, consider getting a box or folder ready to go in an accessible place to grab in case you have to evacuate.
Not that hard to replace. I had to get a new birth cert from Australia and All i had to do was fill 8lin my name, date of birth, place of birth, my parents names, and siblings. 3 weeks later my cert arrived in Europe.
See, the thing is I was born in the Soviet Union.
That’s for sure, there is no interest to anyone that you go around without documents. And documents with moneys interest usually have even five copies around the offices and databases. In an house burning saving documents to me looks insane, even cringe in this modern society.
The big fat folder with all the important documents I keep in a place that I can get to easily in case there’s a fire.
I can get new cats, a new PC, etc. It would be tricky to get a new birth certificate from a country that no longer exists. I can easily get new ID and get all my stuff in my wallet with the stuff in the big fat folder.
There are fireproof briefcases. I think buying one would give you some peace of mind about your papers.
I’ve looked into those and I don’t think they do much if your entire house burns down, so I’m either able to grab the documents or they’re burning down with the house. I may be wrong, but I think a false peace of mind is probably all they do. I’m probably not running into the fire to grab some documents, so the few extra minutes that fire resistant case would provide doesn’t do much.
Someone please correct me if I’m off base.
My understanding is that when a house is on fire,
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the water damage from the firefighters cause damage.
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Also the fire is normally “moved” with some fun airflow physics that firefighters learn, so the damage from burning is somewhat contained (hopefully).
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also a fire burns up, so something insulated underneath where the fire is could last a long time with little damage.
Based on these reasons, I expect that the briefcase could help keep your documents safe.
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And maybe save a cat
My dog
I’d save this guy’s dog too
My computer, a lot of files on there I don’t want to lose. I have them backed up to other hard drives, but in the same computer. So I need to save the computer.
Dude. A backup in the same computer is not a “backup”. You should have a separate network attached storage and a script like syncthing backing up to a different hard drive. If you don’t want to do it yourself, you can buy a all in one device that has the software and hard drive all in one.
If you are not saving things to a remote location, you will lose all your shit in a flood or fire. Remote storage has gotten cheap enough to make it practical.
Hetzner storage boxes cost 3.8€/month for 1TB, which is more than enough for the important things people have.
Backblaze is 70$/year for unlimited data.
you will lose all your shit in a flood or fire.
That’s why I’m saving my computer as my one thing. ;)
I guess grabbing the fire safe would be a waste of an item, but that’s where I keep all the stuff that needs to survive a fire…
…so maybe a bottle of water from the fridge? For me; not the fire.
My Cat!
My daughter
But what about your gaming computer.
Myself?
What about your giant purple dildo?!
What?
At this point it’s basically part of myself, inseparable, so does that still count?
Hey man gotta have your priorities straight 😎
Been there, done that. House caught on fire due to a fauly wood stove. We got our cats out, everything else could be replaced.
I hope that’s not about any person anymore and everyone is saved now. Now the one thing I’d save will probably be my diary w That has everything from my financial planning to everything i need to do for next 15 years to the passwords of my google and other accounts.
In the last few years, I’ve realised that there’s nothing can matters more than your family and the people close to you (tho my relationship with my family especially my parents/or just my dad has been awful and terribly uncomfortable). It can at a time get to the point where you think that anything would matter more than these guys (ur parents) and although you sometimes feel like what they do for you is just so much and the next day u forget that. But it does get to a state where you’re accepting that you’re parents are humans, just like you, not superheroes. So it really helps having some empathy and putting yourself in their situations considering their life is no less significant than anyone’s including you. sorry for including my traumatic experience and recovery in a fricking simple question’s answer
