"WHAT IF You Had To Abandon The House Immediately ..." Topic

Which ONE hobby item (or specific small batch of figures) would you grab on your way out the door, before the flames or floodwaters engulf your home and everything else inside?

My wife was laughing at me recently because, other than vital documents, meds, our dogs, a change of clothes and my iPad, the only other item I grabbed before our house flooded last August was my Green Stuff (Kneadatite) putty. It was a conscious decision for me though, and not some frantic mindless reaction.

She said she didn't know it was that important to me. I guess I didn't either, until she made me look back on that little detail. :)

So … which single hobby-related item would YOU grab as you're running out the door?

Dan

That's actually a tough question. Fortunately Florence moved slow enough for me to protect my "toys" so I didn't have to make that call. I honestly can't decide on this one. Darn it, now I'm going to waste precious few brain cells having an internal debate over which of my collection is worth saving or more importantly which is worth losing. Ugh

Well the problem for me is almost nothing is in the house. My paints, whatever work in progress is on my painting table, a few figures in a display case. So I guess I'd say the key to my storage space!

My wife asked this after doing it as a corporate ice breaker. The question was "What 4 things…" but same scenario. Assuming people and dog are safe I said wallet, laptop, filebox and phone. Not very sexy, but we simply don't get emotionally attached to stuff. Everything can be replaced. Start over with soldiers, buy a new guitar and mandolin, and wait to rebuild.

As many of my Civil War artifacts as I could carry in one load. Screw the miniatures. H

Probably nothing, given the scenario. They're simply not readily accessible in that way, and none of them am I going to risk loved ones or life to retrieve. Plenty are essentially irreplaceable, but life will go on fine without them.

Priority questions: Are my family safe? If yes, do we have essential documents safe? If yes, do I have safe backups of current work? If no at any point, secure whatever is next on the list. The rest can burn.

Rather difficult since all my wargaming goodies are in my back garden hut and the opposite direction of any evacuation route.

Ricky Gervais was once asked a similar question and he answered "the wife, the cats and one of the twins".

My 15mm Colonial collection. Oh, and the Leading Edge Army of Darkness collection. AND the Boxer Rebellion collection. AND…

Leave the minis, take the firearms.

Thumb drive full of rules. Some of them are irreplaceable. After that the wargaming bookshelf, which would be very difficult to replace. After that, we'd be talking troops. Probably 1/72 horse and musket would head the list. They'd be a one-arm carry.

I would just embrace my collection and sing "we will all go down together."

Usually at one time 1/2 the collection is in my out building the other 1/2 in the basement. So in a fire they might need to hold out on their own.

Sloppypainter: "we will all go down together"

LOL. Well, the wife was safe and sound in Austin on a business trip, but it was up to me to get the dogs to safety.

If I didn't have them all, I would have probably stayed behind with my miniature family. :)

Dan

I have a small case with some ~10mm scifi minis, terrain bits, rulers, and dice in my go bag.

Video inventory of the minis (as well as all my other too much crap) for the insurance company is not stored in the house where it would get destroyed with the house. Nor are any of my other critical docs.

hmm, two hands, two 3d printers. It is a sign from on high.

They can have my minis when they pry them from my cold dead hands …

Everything I've written down over the years. Minis & stuff are replaceable, trying to retrieve things from memory are not…

One hobby item? A box full of boardgames from various magazines.

One hobby related item – my volume 1 book of Duel in the Mist

I won't make it out alive – too many decisions.

Agree with zulupaul – firearms.

Although getting the ammunition out as well would make it more likely that the firefighters would actually try to put out the fire…

The dogs. They'd take up all the room in the car. As much as I love my minis, they're just stuff.

Yea, the dog is a given, but not really a hobby item, in my case.

The custom figure of Baron Dominique Jean Larrey that my parents had made for me when I graduated from med school; the sculptor has long since passed away

Pretty much everything else is replaceable

My Walker Colt and my Bowie knife. You can't be a Tiger without your pistol and your knife. TIG

I own nothing hobbywise that I can't replace with insurance so family photos

Actually had to do this a few years ago due to a fire.

Three things.

1) myself.

2) my wife.

3) the dog.

All three of us came out under their own power.

BTW I left without my shoes.

I agree with ZULUPAUL about the firearms. I have spent more on my ordnance than I have on figures (though it is close).

My wife is mobile enough so I don't have to worry about anything there, and the cats would dash out without my assistance.

Over the past year I dumped all the (paper) family photos. Sent them off to Fotobridge to be scanned. Did a couple hundred per batch. Then uploaded them to a gallery on our web site. The DVDs then are simple back up. In a fire I leave the DVD's and later do a dump from the web site to be w new back up (tho my host does routine backups in any case).