Name: Arthur L
Age:28
Location: New Port Richey Fl
Occupation: Artist
My list of priorities:
1. EDC kit
2. Survival kit backpack
3. My notebooks of my research
4. Extra tools
5. Sentimental items
6. Reference books
7. The 1 most valuable thing in the house
8. Plan "B"
For what I would carry if my house was burning down:
I'm into survivalism and am pretty much prepaired for everything. First of all, I do not want to live in a wood house or anything with the high risk of burning down, or high crime or any other high risk.
1. If nothing else and I only had seconds to escape. I have my EDC kit or every day carry which is all I personally need. Which is a surge multitool with a flint magnesium fire starter. Along with my wallet and keys and a pen and internet phone, which may or may not become moot.
2. Extra things I would try to get before escaping if at all possible, would be my backpack emergency kit filled with camping survivalist essentials to make life easy as first priority. This has everything needed to make Shelter/fire/water/food/medical/hygiene/tools/navigation/signaling. It has a folding saw, steel water bottle, tent hammock, rope, knives, sharpeners, crank lights, fresnel lens, firesteel, fishing stuff, snacks, TP, book on edible medicinal plants, notes on traps and knots, etc. But really all of this is just extra for comfort.
3, and 4. I have important information I've written in notebooks, but I'm currently putting more and more of my notes and research on the internet through blogs and video sites like youtube, so I shouldn't ever have to carry that. So instead second priority would be extra tools. If expensive and hard to find.
5, and 6: Sentimental items like pictures and memories of the past, and the best reference books from my library. But that also I should start putting on the internet along with my video library and just make a list of the books I have to buy later.
Supposedly if I lost all my paper work and files I'd be screwed but really if your life is so literally controlled by paperwork and it all came down to that??? Then I'd just leave the city and this ridiculous bureaucracy forever. There are more things to life than having constant stress and working for the man. No, I'm not one of those rich people who buys a house in California and coincidentally buys very high insurance on it right before the convenient forest fire.
8. I have lots of valuable things but I also don't need money because I can survive without it, and I like doing things for myself. So that would be the last priority and I'd probably pick the one most expensive thing in the house. I also could make, money anywhere as an artist. I'd make sure everybody else is safe before saving myself. Then after all the ash is settled I'd make way for my plan "B". Go to my self built cabin somewhere in my undisclosed location without taxes(or build it, if I hadn't already by then, this would be the perfect excuse!) but that would be my final destination.
In the end, I'm an independent individual, and a free thinker, and I have sentimentality but I don't let it rule my life, so if "shtf" and the fire was caused by some other reason than just bad house construction then I'd be ready. Who needs stuff anyway? I'd probably be happier if my apartment burned down! Sounds like an actual adventure.
If you have stuff you fear losing it, If you have nothing you fear nothing.
