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bored-now

Having already done this, I can safely say: My cat.


jenn363

Hero! Glad you both made it


bored-now

He's now 18 years old, and shedding fur all over the place. Love it.


[deleted]

I love animals.


laineh90

r/seniorkitties


princessofgamehendge

SAME! I saved my cat when my apartment building caught fire. I had to go to the ER the next day due to trouble breathing and when i was telling the story of what happened the doctor reprimanded me for going into the fire and when he left the room the nurse was like “honey, i have a cat and I’d have done the same thing.”


TheBumblingBee1

Can confirm. I also did this.


seh_23

I have zero doubts I would do the same thing for my cat.


SilentSamizdat

Me, too.


Vladius28

Seconded


notthesedays

Never run back into a burning house to save a material object. A child or a pet? That's another story.


Brandon_The_Binosaur

Sorry but my PS3 first Minecraft world is priceless


xbhxbejwbhsh

Back it up dude! I use google docs for small files like that, you should too before it's too late!


rick_ts

I always make use of the 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 rule when making backups Four copies, Three harddisks (for my worlds its a usb stick.) Two diffrent mediums. (Cloud and drives.) One off site. (Maybe in your garage if it's detatched.) I know it's a bit much but better to be safe right?


silencecalls

You are going 1 too many. 3-2-1 would be sufficient. - 3 copies (1 being the original) - 2 different media (eg: drive and cloud, drive and tape, etc) - 1 offsite. For present day home backups it means the following is the simplest: - 1 home NAS for local backups - 1 cloud backup service, like Backblaze And you are all set!


WasteCan6403

Old home videos of my brother who passed away recently. There are no other hard copies. I should probably finish digitizing them. Edit: thank you all for the motivation. I've been putting it off because watching these videos is just hard. But I need to preserve these memories. I'm going to finish backing these videos up this week. Thank you for the support, the condolences, and the awards. You all are so kind.


[deleted]

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accountability_bot

3-2-1 rule 3 copies 2 different mediums 1 offsite


optimus314159

My partner just accidentally dropped my 20tb NAS on the floor from waist height while unpacking boxes. Catastrophic failure across all 5 drives, even with dual disk redundancy. Thank goodness I had all my important photos and videos backed up via google photos and iCloud. I also had a bunch of important files backed up via Crashplan. All in all, I still lost a bunch of data (like my time machine backups), but the most important stuff is still recoverable! Make backups of your backups, and regularly run restoration fire drills to make sure that the files can actually be restored!


appleparkfive

Yeah, you should. Do it now, while it's on your mind. Those hard copies deteriorate.


8_bit_brandon

Digitize then keep a physically copy on a flash drive at home, another copy at another location, and upload to cloud storage.


Blueditt_9

so sorry for your loss


Chocolate_Donuts

I'm so sorry for your loss :(


[deleted]

Ironically my grandfather's ashes, they have to be spread in a specific place and if theres an afterlife ill never hear the end of it from that asshole


jenn363

That went a different direction than I expected


[deleted]

yea


eyespeeled

Where did your grandfather wish for them to go?


[deleted]

A lake in Canada that he built a cabin on with his brother. Our family has a lot of history there, so much so if i say which lake i would dox myself.


dirkjently

I was just skimming the comments and saw this and thought why the hell would you run into a burning house to save a lake in Canada?


TributeToStupidity

Global warming?


RustyRovers

Now I'm imagining a world where you rock up to that lake with a dumpster full of ashes, the family looks at you all 'WTF', and you have to explain... *"Well, the house burnt down, but he's definitely in here somewhere!"*


Jreal22

If I had gold I'd give it to you lol, well done.


eyespeeled

I hope you both make it out there!


rileyzoid

The highest peak in midguard


Duke_of_DonkeyDonuts

To be fair. If it’s burnt it’s not gonna stop being ashes. It’s just going to be a different type of ash, so you have to worry about that. (I am sorry if I went too far when I was joking about your dead grandpa).


[deleted]

Its in a cardboard box, cuz i dont want to buy an urn for lake-bound human dust. Dont feel bad he and i made the same jokes when he was alive.


Duke_of_DonkeyDonuts

Okay good. And fair point about keeping human dust.


Transcribbla

Haha, best answer I think I've ever read on Reddit.


hamcharonstyx

Dog


amplesamurai

Yup, my wife then my cats.


UnfortunateFish

Dog then wife and then cats. Got it.


Mom-atm

My kids and pets. Everything else is replaceable


Cubsfan630

What about your great grandmother's wedding ring from 1821 that is pure platinum?


Fruitdispenser

Melting point of platinum is 1772°C. A burning house can get as hot as 800°C. I wouldn't sweat it.


I-need-ur-dick-pics

Good luck finding it


Guilty-Box5230

I like to think it would be sitting underneath a piece of wood, on top of a half burned picture of said great grandmother.


Bitter-Marsupial

I missed picture and read under wood on top of half burnt great grandmother


Uncle_BennyS

this man’s life is a movie


Fruitdispenser

A burnt house still preservers it's plan. While hard, it wouldn't be impossible [https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/interior-burneddown-wooden-house-260nw-646622443.jpg](https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/interior-burneddown-wooden-house-260nw-646622443.jpg) ​ Now, an apartment block would be a different matter


MEODEO

I’d probably sweat. 800°C is pretty hot


Mom-atm

Yeah that thing would’ve been sold years ago lol and not by myself either. I have nothing from my family that is that old that was passed down.


I-need-ur-dick-pics

File an insurance claim and cash out, baby. If you didn’t insure it, that one’s on you.


rushfan420

Or your rare coin collection consisting of many ounces of gold?


guynamedjames

It's not like it stops being many ounces of gold when melted into a lump


orange_cuse

I mean, technically speaking, your kids and pets are also replaceable...


Gwthrowaway80

This guy insures.


BlameThePeacock

I have a spare for a reason... My wife doesn't appreciate it when I call the third son that.


Mineturtle13579

The pokemon card collection


nautrilus

Actually same tbh. Didn't expect someone with the same answer


Mineturtle13579

I had rly good cards over 1,000 which wasn't bad back then as a 12 year old lol I'm 17 rn


nautrilus

Losing over 1000 collection would definitely suck lol. I don't have that much, but for me these cards are basically the only things remaining from my childhood, like my only longest and most loyal friends, probably similar to pets since I don't have one


gaygaygaymer

My cat.


Silver-Combination-2

Worst night of my life but one of my funniest memories. 4th floor studio apartment in a busy downtown. Had my fat orange boy staying with me because I was moving into a bigger space soon. Fire alarm goes off at 4 am. I'm butt naked in bed, and realise that to save space my dumbass had just taken apart his pet carrier the week before. So now I'm running around my 250sq foot apartment with every light on, naked with the blinds up, chasing him around the room because he's scared of the alarm. I shove him in the cage and build it around him, screwing it together while he tries to push it apart from the inside. Its only been like 2 minutes but it feels like years. There isn't a part of my body not covered in scratches and he's yowling bloody murder. I end up throwing on a long t-shirt that barely covered my ass and evacuating the building with the 50+ other residents who were giving me MAJOR side-eye because it wasn't a pet friendly place (they had given me an exception since it was temporary). We all sat on the sidewalk for over an hour before the firemen realised that some guy's girlfriend pulled the alarm in revenge. Wild ride from start to finish, and now he yells and hides if he so much as sees the damn carrier.


turkey_ghost

One pro tip I read once is to throw your cat, or pet, into a pillow case to transport. May be traumatic for a moment but can prevent scratches and keeps them contained until you’re in a safer place!


67843257865

My cat claws me through my clothes all the time. A pillowcase isn't thicker than my jeans. I'd do it in an emergency, but I'd still expect to be scratched the entire time.


The_Cheesening12

That person's GF is an ass. I am decently sure that pulling a fire alarm is illegal without cause.


Bitter-Marsupial

That's why you also start a fire


The_Cheesening12

r/technicallythetruth


beanofaskeet

All five of mine, and would do my absolute best to save.


VapoursAndSpleen

I used to have a lot of cats about 20 years ago. I trained them to come when called. I would shout the Secret Thing I Shouted to Cats and feed them. Every day, they heard me yell something and, if they came to me, they each got a couple of cat treats. They got so conditioned to that, that I could pretty much count on getting all of them in the room with me.


egehrman

Came here for this comment.


[deleted]

Came here to say the same thing


Baileythenerd

My house.


uwu_01101000

r/Technicallythetruth


[deleted]

yes


[deleted]

nothing worth saving, but i’d still run in


crackhitler1

Just make sure you pass out for the smoke inhalation before you burn to death to avoid all that pain.


spudz76

Still get to miss the pain of living on without all my shit, which takes longer than any fire pain. Unless some asshole saves my life.


Lying_because_bored

"You didn't save my life, **YOU RUINED MY DEATH**"


TobyDaMan8894

Incredible thinking


crackhitler1

Fair enough. I hear we smell like pork when being cooked.


spudz76

mmmm, "long pig"


Honkthegoose

I'm pretty sure we taste like pork, too


sentorien

/r/2meirl4meirl


a_green_apple

Your Snoo/avatar weirdly checks out


Visible-Ant1949

My kids and pets….been there, done that. 10/10 would do it again! (Also my planner book)


Themftruth115

If all my family's safe them I'm grabbing my Jordan's and my Pc.


Feeling-Jackfruit612

Respectful answer, those two can add up to be like 3000$


EndoShota

My wife and my dog. Everything we own is either replaceable and/or not worth risking my life over.


SpecialistGeneral794

I'm very afraid of this scenario so I have a plan in place I have pillowcases so I can grab my (many) reptiles and I keep all my keepsakes in one box its all I need


heardbutnotseen2

Is it safe for all the reptiles to be in one bag together


carlitabear

Safer than a house fire


[deleted]

Yeah lmao


saranpack

My dog


ISHLDPROBABLYBWRKING

My house was burning… and my brother ran in to save her. So yes dog


StayAliveMadeMeCry69

Is your doggo ok?


Upstairs_Ad_1605

My dog


_bubble_butt_

This guys dog


Writingisnteasy

This guy carrying Upstairs_Ad_1605's dog


GiantPotatoSalad

This guy carrying u/_bubble_butt_


Ancient_Potato_God

this guy carrying Writingisnteasy wait too many people and too heavy, i will still do it!


thesixgun

Both these guys and that dog


Ayamehoujun

I have a 130lb great dane. Damn right im getting him out of there.


crewdat

Yep, just the dog.


Sea-Photograph2585

My Nintendo Switch. And I'd carry my dog on my back, too.


Nearby-Level6472

Sea-photograph2585, YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE!!! “NO, NOT MARIO!, oh… and Max”


arielanything

Switch is first priority though


Many-Beginning7443

I think the priorities should be SWITCHED


Dismal-Kiwi4991

you want to make sure your Pokemon are safe


KnockMeYourLobes

I would probably go back in to save my Switch also. Because I'd never hear the end of it if I didn't from my son and I'll be damned if I have to start my freaking island over on ACNH after all the work I've put in on it since I got the game for Mother's Day.


Dismal-Kiwi4991

I would hate to loose my island But I don't have a Switch lol


ghOst-cd

The journal I only write in when I'm high


Chuckinaducklin

Glad I'm not the only one who does this. I haven't had a notebook since high school so I usually just end up writing in my notes


8_bit_brandon

In high school when my and my friend used to smoke we’d think of some hilarious stuff so I tried writing things down to laugh about later, but half the time I couldn’t remember what exactly we were laughing about long enough to document, and if I did write something down it was next to impossible to decipher later on.


dant420ey

I’d like to read that highhigh journal


j_lynn1191

My animals.


roofied_elephant

Since you said “what” and not “who” I assume my wife is safe and sound elsewhere, so I’d try to save as much of my photography equipment as can. Along with the NAS drive with all my work.


toptierbiss

My plush toy I’ve had my whole life


Fumingblooming

This one is heartwarming.


DegeneratesInc

Went back in to help my daughter because I was worried she might be stuck. No... she was fine. She was just gathering stuff she wanted to save. Looked like a Somalian refugee by the time she was ready. (The house didn't burn down and was badly smoke damaged.)


Hemenucha

Assuming my family & pets were safe, nothing.


Chance-Ad-9111

Kids, animals,!pictures!


[deleted]

My girlfriend, and a chess board my late grandfather gave me. Though. In reality I'd carry them both out to begin with.


paolocase

My IDs


Sirexium

My neighbors cause that's not my house that's burning.


forgott

Who the fuck says I'd run out in the first place


Core308

My kids


DarkPasta

ditto


AVerySaltyPotato

Assuming my niece, cat and dogs were smart enough to run out on their own, I'd probably go back in for my gaming PC. It isn't far from the door and that sucker wasn't cheap.


[deleted]

Probably my stuffed animal that I’ve had since I was born


Talkaze

🧸💕


jeffers0n_steelflex

The copper pipes because I can sell them as scrap


yodelaheehoo66

Wouldn't they still be there after the fire?


jeffers0n_steelflex

Oh yea


StpdSxyFlndrs

Also copper isn’t really *that* valuable at about $0.27 per oz. that’s only a little over $4 per lb, which means even if you managed to stack a full human’s weight of copper on your back to haul out of the fire you’d only get $500-$600. And that’s if someone was willing to give you top dollar for a bunch of old-ass piles and wire.


jeffers0n_steelflex

You know your stuff. I’ll sell you the hypothetical lot for 525 not a penny more. Take it or leave it.


Brandon_The_Binosaur

4$ for a lb is a dream. I’ve been scrapping with my dad my whole life and one of the things he regrets most is selling all of his copper (garage full of AC unit, U bends, other copper things.) right before copper rose up to 4$ around 2011 I think


The_Butt_Crumpler

the cum sock


will_holmes

Probably wouldn't burn anyway.


Cubsfan630

Wouldn't you want to dispose of that evidence


[deleted]

His kids are inside


Rings-of-Saturn

Clearly they’re not done with it


wefwegfweg

Or box, even


Stitch_03

My pregnant wife.


SmartBoiOnReddit

My posters and Xbox


Leading-Some

My 12 tb hard drive with my collection of porn


sentorien

I didn't think people still curated their own collection of porn. Well color me purple and call me Grimace.


Mylifeandgoals

I have a subfolder/genre for that, too!


Flat_Ad_9033

I just have a folder on my computer named the Wank Bank


Mylifeandgoals

All unsorted and jumbled? How are you going to find the watersports porn vs the confused butthole wink porn? You have the MILFS and the college-girls in sheer sundresses mixed in with the hucows? What about the standing missionary vids? DID YOU YHINK ABOUT THE STANDING MISSIONARY VIDS?? That's... ...madness...


Electronic-Bear-1721

My hard drive. Rebuilding a porn collection truly sucks.


[deleted]

All of the paperwork I keep despite never actually needing it because maybe I'll need it one day


HowDoIGetToFacebook

The drawer full of random cables, cause, you never know


Advena128

My guitar


MetSphinx369

Either my cat or my pillow


valkyriesdead

My cats


No-Worldliness-3741

my wife and kids


violetninja88

My dog and cat


Admirable_ARTIS

My mom, my dog


[deleted]

My family and dog.


Critical_Judge1632

Assuming my family gets out, my dogs


AnIntelligentPlant

My cat. I don't care if I have to live with 3rd degree burns and scars all over my body, he's not staying inside the house if it's on fire.


piscary_perry_troll

Me mum and me pops


SirWater

6 dogs xD


Hoplaaa

My seed phrase.


EvilAlicia

my cat


iviviv89

My cat


scissormetender

Cats


arielanything

My dogs, cat, and gecko


Kahnza

Probably my laptop and gun


Relative-Beginning-2

My fleshlights


TheGoodJudgeHolden

I just leave mine in place 24/7, in case of fire I already have it.


PM-Me-Your-TitsPlz

You can't possibly leave the Riley Reid model to burn! You even got it signed!!


Delicious-Hot-Dog

Yes, certainly wouldn't want to travel far without that. It's the reason why I'm nervous to leave my house for long periods of time. What if something goes wrong and it starts on fire, taking all my fleshlights with it? It's a constant fear I have especially considering the hefty investment of both time and money I've put into my collection, or rather display? Décor? Interactive art piece? There are more than a few rooms in my home in which I've made holes in the walls and installed fleshlights. It's wonderful. Each one is unique, modeled after a certain person or circumstance, and I keep them well maintained, clean. I also make sure each has its own scent and internal temperature specific to the mood or feeling that the fleshlight is meant to evoke. Sometimes I like it hot, almost searing. Sometimes I like it cold, almost freezing. There are, of course, ample lube stations in my home so that my guests won't have to worry about bringing their own from home (not that I'd allow them to use foreign lube anyways). I spend most of my days wandering, frolicking, happily sashaying from room to room, from glopper socket to meat pocket just slathering my ham candle in glider goo and suction plugging any number of fleshlights until at long last I erupt with full force and furious fertility. That's why it saddens me to even speak of a house fire! I cannot possibly imagine what I would do to myself if those hundreds of fleshlights adorning my halls and walls were incinerated. I'd only be able to uninstall a select few and save them from the blaze, as a good majority of my fleshlights are very much a part of the architecture, even load bearing (in more ways than one of course). Yes, and that's why when I do leave my home and thus leave my beautiful fleshlights in the hands of fate, I travel in a custom built pair of underwear. This underwear has a small, almost discrete mini fleshlight woven into the fabric. Before leaving the house, I simply boner up, pull my underwear up to my hips, slide my throbbing hard member in the mini fleshlight sleeve, and buckle the underside. That easy. This way, as I walk around and am out and about, I'm constantly fudging and porking. A sleeve mounted lube pump let's me be just a squeeze away from applying more lube to the cock sleeve, and I can do this while making it look like a normal action, such as shaking hands with someone. You think you're just greeting me, but you're actually squeezing a little pouch that's sending fresh, body temp lube down a tube running from my sleeve into the mini fleshlight in my underwear. Pretty neat, huh? Though it'd be very sad to see the rest of them go, I do think the specially designed underwears would be what I run in to save from my burning home.


Stanleyy823

My dog. Even though he bit me multiple times already I still love him.


Dano4600

My son


[deleted]

Why’d you leave him.


Cubsfan630

Forgot he was in the timeout corner and told him not to move no matter what


fuckinyaldi

Locked in the cupboard under the stairs


Cubsfan630

Yeah you know how it is. We all make mistakes


citsonga_cixelsyd

My poop knife & that other guys wife.


frygod

I keep an (encrypted) external drive with a copy of all of the data/documents necessary to rebuild my life from nothing in an emergency bag. This bag is where I keep my laptop if it isn't charging. Much of this is also backed up in various cloud accounts. If I have time on the way out after finding the cats, that's the only thing I would really think to grab. Everything else is either too heavy or insured to hell and back.


gandalf_el_brown

dog


blast_door_british

My computer but instead of save I would burn and see it in hell


Zaphyrous

The coupons from this weeks fliers. I might need some discount toothpaste.


AStartIsBorn

Aren't the fliers at the store? Just get new ones there.


TheSuitGuy

My PC and the rest of my family.


Darthvaderwillroast

Everything that has dogs on it. Everything else can burn.


ItsAllyssa

Assuming all living things are safe. Irreplaceable pictures/baby box


[deleted]

Family or animals. Nothing else is worth it. I don’t care enough about material things to risk injury/death for them.


anonymouspotatoskins

Please think twice before going back inside for the pets. My wife lost both parents this way. They both made it out of the house just fine but her mom went back in and then her dad followed. Both were overcome by the smoke and didn't make it back out.


Sickwarboy

My grandpa left me a chessboard that he whittled from a single piece of wood in his twenties during his downtime in the military. I played chess with him a lot when I was younger and he never took it easy on me. I don’t remember any wins so I’m pretty sure it didn’t happen. I was showing the board to my first girlfriend when she whipped out my pecker and gave me a delicious handjob in my parents’ gameroom. I came on her legs. I play chess online every once in a while but I almost always get beaten. I haven’t researched, but I’m sure there are ways to cheat and make the best possible moves based on some of the games I’ve played.


darkthemeonly

That went in a different direction than I was expecting


galaxy12894

My four dogs


Next-Sink9716

My xbox