What is your "prized possession"?
 

During the discussion on the DC board there was a debate on whether you should be able to kill someone stealing your stuff. I won't get back to that but I did want to know: what is your #1 possession you own? I.e., what would you walk through fire to retrieve?

I can honestly say I don't even have one. I wouldn't care if my house burnt down. I really changed many years ago when I had my first child. At that point I didn't give a squirt about anything I owned. Truth.


The closest thing I have would be my ball glove given to me by my dad when I was 7. It was autographed by Catfish Hunter (for those who don't remember he was good in the 70s). Maybe it will take on greater significance when my dad passes since he's quite old now.



Anyway here's a photo of the model:
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Mine varies from time to time. Right now it's the 80" flat-screen that I just bought. Once the novelty wears off, it will go back to being my 1960 Chevy stepside.

My wife's virginity.

My dogs. Try to take one and you'll end up with hot lead in thy ass.

I did walk through fire to retrieve one of my prized possessions this month.

My Camaro, 13" penis & my mullet, in that order /cp

Yeah... We need to talk about this...

Does she still snort during her O face?

I kept telling her that oral didn't count. Glad you agree.

Don't they all?

Probably the large stone spear head my grandpa found in colorado, followed by my football card collection and turn of the century copies of A Tale of Two Cities and The Scarlet Letter.

It seems that if a fire destroyed your TV you'd just get another one when the insurance company cut you a check right? I guess I'm thinking more along the lines of things that cannot be replaced - a letter from your deceased grandfather, a time piece your dad stuck up his ass in Nam, etc.

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I have a Nazi issue Walther P-38 pistol that my Grandfather took from a German officer along with some hand drawn maps that the same officer was carrying. Those are probably my most "prized possessions". They mean much more to me know that he has passed away and me knowing he thought enough of me to give them to me instead of any of his six sons.

How's your son doing? I was holding my son sitting around our fire pit on Friday night and thought about what you went through.

For me, I prize no possessions.

I'm not certain children or animals count as "possessions" do they?

I don't have anything I would walk through a fire to save besides wife, children and grandchildren....but from a materialistic view I do like my car a lot:

Tyler Bray

My now deceased great grandfathers 1931 Epiphone Archtop acoustic guitar. Still plays like new, just looks 80 years old

Probably the only thing I would make an effort to grab in a fire (besides family and pets, of course) are our pictures. Everything else can be replaced.

Grandpa's beer stein & coin collection. Dads guns. To me they are a constant reminder of the 2 most influential people in my life

In the context of your question they are...when you realize that in the grand scheme the other things don't matter. I am positive I would walk through fire for my children, I'm positive I'd take a life if someone tried to steal them.

Take one of the guns my grandfather's left me and I'm not certain of your fate. We have other things that would suck if they were lost, but I'd smash every single item I own for my wife and kids.

Agreed that family + pet > possessions but once I had them safe I would go back in for this.

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Pretty much my daughters or my dogs. My wife knows how to get out.

Again, only inanimate things count:


possession (pəˈzɛʃən)

— n
1. the act of possessing or state of being possessed: in possession of the crown
2. anything that is owned or possessed
3. ( plural ) wealth or property
4. the state of being controlled or dominated by or as if by evil spirits
5. the physical control or occupancy of land, property, etc, whether or not accompanied by ownership: to take possession of a house
6. a territory subject to a foreign state or to a sovereign prince: colonial possessions
7. sport control of the ball, puck, etc, as exercised by a player or team: he lost possession in his own half

Thats a beaut.

Thanks. It’s actually kind of cheap (for an upright bass) and scratched up but it’s good for a learner which is what I’m trying to do.

I can't actually think of anything. Probably my bookshelf.

I can think of 3 items I own that will never be for sale.
1. shotgun left to me by my grandfather
2. Rifle bought by my other grandfather upon his return from WWII left to me
3. my first shotgun, given to me by my dad.

These will be heirlooms and I'll haunt the first person in my line who sells them.

Kind of hard to pin down "prized possession." I have some stuff that has a great deal of personal sentimental value that wouldn't be worth much to other people - there's an orange light bulb sitting in an ashtray on one of my shelves that nobody would even notice or give two shits about, but the light bulb is from the marquee of the long-since-destroyed Kennedy Theater in my home town, and the ashtray is from my ship, which was decommissioned, used for target practice and sank in the Pacific last summer. My grandfather was a World War I veteran - I keep his burial flag in a case on the headboard of my bed. I could get another flag if something happened to it, but it wouldn't be that flag. I don't have any stuff like that that's actually worth any money. The stuff I do have that's worth money could easily be replaced.

I have some cool things and other things with sentimental value, but I don't know of anything I have that is so prized as to be irreplaceable. I guess the most irreplaceable things I have are those that came from our honeymoon. I could replace them but it would cost a lot to go down there to get them.

I should've been able to say grandpas old double barrel, black powder Parker shotgun... but i sold it like a FOOL many years ago, just thinking about it pisses me off but good.

There's only a couple things I would put in this category. One: The football my mom and dad gave me with all the signatures from the Chiefs IV Super Bowl team. Two: The American Flag from my dad's burial service that was over his coffin. I'll never give that up.

I've never been much of the type to cherish things. That's not to say I don't appreciate the finer things in life - I've got three HDTV's for starters - just that the individual items can be pretty easily replaced if necessary.

About the most prized "possession" I have is my wife and I's giant picture collection, and all of those are digital and backed up online. If it weren't for the digital age, I'm sure I'd prize a box of old photos.

I'm still working on digitizing our old photos so we can back them up off-site. It's very time consuming, though.

probably my American Telecaster; ash all the way around.

paid damn near $2k for it in 1999. great great guitar.

My wife and kids

pron stash

/Pre-internet response of most of CP

I have writings that I would say are my prized posessions. Files of plays I've written, drafts on my computer.

Ineligible.

Your mother's first dollar earned as a whore. Tough sell/CP

Then nothing.

These are all good items. I'm guessing Mrs Frazod would beg you to save her cat tap :)

My rad music collection. Limited editions, hand numbered releases, original pressings; it would be impossible to replace.

second for me would be an opened bottle of McCormick whiskey (or bourbon..can't remember) in the shape of a Chiefs helmet; sold after they won the championship.

My wife's grandfather, who worked as a distributor down in the north-end, bouth probably 20 of them in '69 and planned to give all his grandkids one someday.

after her grandpa died, her grandma was going through his stuff and found a huge box of them and the remembered he wanted to give them to the grandkids.

it's still sealed in the original giftwrap plastic stuff.

My Arrowhead collection

"Please check around your immediate seating area for any personal belongings you may have brought on board"

....well, I might have brought my arrowhead collection. But I didn't. SO I"M NOT GOING TO LOOK FOR IT!

I don't really have anything that I'd walk through a fire for. Fire really hurts. I mean, it really hurts.

Other than living beings, probably the thing I'd grab before anything would be my laptop. It's got pictures, stories, and all sorts of other stuff that would be difficult or impossible to replace. Other than that, I would rely on a call to my friends at the insurance company.

No one has said "my 12 inch dick???"

Come on CP, this is an epic fail!

A baseball I caught at a Cubs game.

We were at Wrigley Field watching the Cubs take on the Royals, and Joe Randa fouled one back to the first base lower level where I was sitting with my 13 month old Son (it was his first MLB Game). My wife had gone to the rest room, and there I sat with my Son and a frosty cold Old Style Beer. When the foul ball came my way, I sort of panicked. The rookie Dad move I made was to immediately stand up with my Son in one hand (left arm) and the beer in the other (right hand). As the ball tracked nearer to me, my fan instincts took over. I tucked my Son in deep to the left arm, switched the beer to my left had, and reached for the ball with my right hand. VIOLA! Ball Caught, baby secure, and beer not spilled. The crowd around me went nuts. My wife, hearing the story after her return from the bathroom............not so happy with me. :D

In my office, there is a picture of Me holding my Son, and my Son curling up with the ball, and the ticket displayed - all in a glass souvenir box. I absolutely love it, and love re-telling that story to my now 15 year Son.

Try ****ing reading.

He said prized possessioN which means I don't read shit with a list since that isn't following the rules and by default means only the first one counts.

owned/

I have a piece of Hitler's skull.

If you have to type owned at the end......you didn't do anything.

Thats quite a claim, better fill in the blanks on that...

You don't have to count stuff that's implanted into you.

Says who?

The butthurt is pretty strong in your post.

My wife's peace of mind. She got robbed in college and it shook her to the core. I'd do an awful lot to avoid her going through that again.

The lil girl sitting behind me.
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Oh ya. & the locomotive my Pops built from scratch

ROFL

I have a small ceramic angel.

Everything else is material crap. I really don't care about it. It's the only item with irreplaceable sentimental value.

27 volumes of MST3K on DVD.

Grandpa's Blue Jacket Manual Pre-WWII.

Children's book that I read to my kids.

my truck

:clap:

A strat that I built myself from parts.

My grandpa's WWI dog tag.

I had this same mitt! :clap:

What is a strat?
Guitar?

JFC I thought that was a autographed pic of Dianne Feinstein

http://media.salon.com/2013/03/dianne_feinstein1.jpg

Methpipe shaped like a cock and balls.

/LiveSteam

:eek:

You must need to sit 15 feet away!

My best friend let me borrow his Strat before he left for Iraq.
He did not return.

That's awesome! :thumb:

It seems once a month there is a video like this now on ESPN

Can't see her. But who's that dude sitting in front of you?

Damn.
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Upon reflection, I would have to say my most prized possession is my pillow.

The pillow that was issued to me by the United States Navy 29 years ago onboard the USS Concord. It's a super comfortable feather pillow that you just really can't find anymore, at least not for a reasonable price. So I stole it from the ship, kept it all these years, still have it, and still use it, or I should say, I still have and use what's left of it. I doubt if there's much left of the original lining, and probably 15-20% of the feathers are gone, but that's okay, because even with its three additional liners, in all it's tattered, battered, ancient feathery goodness, it's the most comfortable pillow ever. It's outlasted my hair, my ex-wife, everybody that came between her and my current wife, six jobs, nine pets, ten cars and probably 20 moves.

I once left it at a hotel in my hometown, realized I forget when I got back to my house, called the hotel, verified that they hadn't thrown it away, and had my best friend go get it and keep it until the next time I visited, and I was pissed off about it every night when I went to bed without it. I don't think I miss my wife that much when we're apart. In fact, I'm sure of it. My pillow doesn't snore.

That's my pillow, goddammit. Much like my guns, you will have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

The most irreplaceable for me would be the ceremonial Nazi sword my grandfather gave to me.