What ten items in your life would you keep?
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January 18th, 2010
I recently watched the film, Ten Items or Less again and I wondered what ten items people would choose to keep.
1. My nieces and nephew, even if they grow to hate me some day.
2. The pink pillow my grandmother gave me; it was always my favorite and it was the last thing she gave me before she died.
3. My eyes. I wouldn’t trade them or what they’ve seen for anything.
4. My snowflake ring.
5. My bed. It’s the best bed EVER.
6. My copy of the Dead Poets Society.
7. My yearbooks. They hold such great memories and messages from people I still talk to.
8. My poetry.
9. The people I met from being on the internet; even if they’ve broken my heart, I still adore them.
10. My brutal honesty. It may very well be something you end up hating about me.
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People, your eyes, and honesty are items?
Hmm, I haven’t seen this movie and I’m not sure I understand. What 10 items would I keep if what? And do people and personality characteristics really count as items?
If you had to choose ten items from your life to keep and discard all others, which ten would you keep….
I think they will hate you if you consider them items.
What I’d choose to keep depends on my situation…Am I stranded on a deserted island for eternity? Moving to Ethiopia for 10 years? Sailing around the world? What is the hypothetical situation here?
Only one!,my freedom to keep all my items!.
@jeanna_ Well, I haven’t seen the movie, so I’m not sure how they classify items, but to me people are not items.
Maybe you should rephrase it to “What 10 aspects of your life and personality would you keep?”
In that sense you could classify your relationships with important people in your life, and important characteristics about your personality as aspects of your life that you could not live without.
So are we allowed to take things like arms, legs, my voice when I was 21, my hair from when I was 18? I am not totally being rude but I want to make sure that I understand this question. So everything is going? I am just going to be a bloody, lifeless, stump with no eyes, ears or hair or anything if I don’t pick?
My Glock 40, my dog, my police identification, ammunition, my will, PAID IN FULL mortgage papers on my home and cars, and finally my wife.
People aren’t items though. Plain and simple.
The first seven Iron Maiden CDs, Defenders of the Faith by Judas Priest, Master of Reality by Sabbath and my Return of the Living Dead DVD
So then… none of the people that have posted here would have a refrigerator, stove, oven, car, computer, TV, toilet, fuel…
and @john65pennington would have papers that show his house and car are paid off, but he would no longer have either.
@lilikoi Are those, in a figurative sense, the most important items to you?
Okay then, according to jeanna’s rules (she did make the question after all) I would keep:
* My wife with all her current faculties and characteristics intact
* My pet rabbit and his supplies
* My wallet (including all ID)
* My wife’s wallet (including all ID)
* My external hard drive
* My parents-in-law and their house in the country
* My box of diaries, memorabilia, photos, etc.
* My wife’s box of correspondence, memorabilia, photos, etc.
* Enough of my own faculties and characteristics that I can still function in society and am known to and loved by my wife
* I can’t think of a 10th!
@jeanna_ No, I am a literal person. If you ask me to take 10 things right now and leave the rest behind for ever, I’d tell you I like having a toilet to sit on when I take a shit. And then I’d ask you if the public infrastructure would still be maintained (no sense having a toilet if the sewer system is dead). If you meant figuratively, maybe you should have asked “what are the ten most important things or people in your life”.
I don’t get it. Why would I have to choose these 10 items in the first place? Am I going somewhere where they won’t have these things? Is there some sort of impending doom and I’m only aloud to bring 10 things with me? what’s the point? It’s like asking what’s your 10 favorite things in your life. Keep 10 items from what?
I think she meant “what are the ten most important things or people in your life”.
@lilikoi You don’t have to answer it if you don’t wish to, but I asked it the exact way I meant to.
Boy, it sure is fun being back on fluther. Thanks everyone for such a warm welcome.
Hey thanks guys, I just got 3 Exhibitionist awards and 2 Starfish awards on this thread alone.
@lililkoi Now that makes sense. A reasonable question.
Well if your talking fire and I had to run out it and no one around for me to have to save and I had a little time before getting trap, then it would be the clothes on my back, a box of pictures and my jewelry and my cell phone to call 911.
1. Ears, complete with working eardrums and ear lids.
2. Eyes, complete with working lids and lashes and brows.
3. Nose, complete with nerves and hair to filter the bad shit out.
4. Mouth, this is a complete mouth with lips, teeth, tounge, tastebuds, etc.
5. Both arms, that’s the left one and the right one with hands attatched and fingers working.
6. A working pelvis, again with all the working parts, infact I will take them in working condition much like they were at the age of 17.
7. Legs! No kidding, a nice set of legs, good strong legs with working feet and toes.
8. A sense of self worth.
9. A sense of humor.
10. J-E-L-L-O
@jeanna_ I don’t mean to undermine your question or piss you off. I’d like to answer the question it just didn’t make sense to my supremely logical and analytical mind.
@judochop Now, do the internal organs and torso come as a packaged deal, an 8-for-1 kind of thing?
@jeanna_
It’s not that people are giving you are hard time it’s just that we have not seen this movie and your question leaves a lot to be determined. I love answering questions like this but I need to know if we are infact talking items or if we are just talking important things. Help us understand the question like more than a few of us have requested and perhaps we could move past this instead of everyone just guessing at what to type.
@lilikoi shit! See there you go getting all literal. I guess I will just be a wad of skin and joints. At least my senses will be working. Actually no they won’t. Le sigh…...
Last 10 orgasems of 2008.
9 millimeter
C-4
a bow
an arrow
a hatchet
12 gauge
a machete
poison
a dart
a saw.
@ultimateego Are you leaving prepared for the end of the world?
Camera
Saxophone
Snowboard
Photo albums
Tool sweatshirt
Ring with my childrens birthstones
Tent
Fishing pole
Pillow
Comforter
I’m just going with items here. Not people. ;)
My boyfriend
My Ipod
My phone
Er that’s it.
my sense of self
my health
my mind (memories and knowledge – as limited as it may be)
my cat (soon to be plural)
my closest friends (that includes my wife, in case she sees this >.>)
my pack
my boots
a change of clothes (assuming I’m not naked)
my hunting knife
my shotgun (assuming ammo comes with it)
At that point I know who I am, I’m healthy, I haven’t forgotten how to survive and have the means to do so, I’ve got the people (and kitties) I care most about, and I’m ready to travel where ever the trail takes me.
Provided a sense of self and survival aren’t really at issue… I really don’t have the slightest idea what I’d take beyond my friends and cat(s). I answered a similar question (stuff saved from a fire or something) a while ago and I think it still holds, as long as I have my sense of self everything else can be replaced.
Children
Grandchildren
Computer
Warm Bathrobe
Health (all inclusive)
DVD of Dr. Zhivago
IPod with my music
Integrity
Sense of Humor
Bible
My boyfriend (first and foremost)
My dogs
My dad
My grandmother
My duvet
My Barbra Streisand collection
My flat
My phone or computer (lifelines!)
My Ipod
Books
I’m going with just items, as I do not consider people, live body parts, or personality characteristics to be items.
1 – my camera
2 – my external hard-drive
3 – the file of my most vital documents
4 – my box of old photos
5 – my wedding ring
6 – my wallet
7 – my cell phone
8 – the stack of old journals and papers I wrote in college
9 – my jewelry box
10 – my laptop
1. Netbook
2. Camera
3. Pipe
4. ipod
5. Bank Card
6. My Bed aka Heaven
7. My car
8. My ID
9. My Phone
10. A box with all my chargers and batteries and power cords for the above items.
I will not list people.
1. My photo albums (digital and otherwise)
2. My phone
3. My kindle
4. My Harry Potter Collection
5. My favorite toys (for the babies)
6. My fridge
7. My wedding band
8. My dance shoes
9. My yoga mat and clothes
10. My hat
I realize now after doing this exersize that I don’t need any of the above. At all.
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