frannyo 2 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Mine is a box full of old old family things my grandfather left for me, bless him, and I'll always keep close to me and guard it with my life. What's yours? Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 my dog, but he is not a possession as we are a team. Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted September 18, 2003 Author Share Posted September 18, 2003 Cool - how does he like Japan then? Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 My photos. Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 when i moved to university residence the first night i was there they told me that i had two minutes to run and save something from a make believe fire. i grabbed photo albums, just because they cant be replaced. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Photos can be replaced, keep your negatives in a safe place or scan your photos if you have no negative and with digital photography which is the new age its easy to replicate all your photos and keep mulitiple backups. I keep a back up collection else where, so if something happens to me house ie fire then my collection exists safely elsewhere. Unless its an autographed photo then you are screwed! its hard to define the most important possession, what is important to live? or what is sentimetal?. Your passport is a very important possession. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Yes kamoshika I do understand the concept of negatives and being able to reprint photos. However, photos from 30-40 years back and more cannot be replaced, and some photos that I do not have the negatives for also cannot be replaced. Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Quote: keep your negatives in a safe place or... Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 My WWII German bayonet. It's absolutely useless for any practical purpose (apart from attaching to a rifle and running people through), but I like to get it out about once a year and flourish it around. Photos are easy enough to forget once you've lost them. All my digital photos of the first 2 years of H11 got lost when my hard disk went low-tech, and I can't say I miss them terribly. Making photos a holy cow just means your memories become that much more selective. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Yes, I can read too jared. We will just have to agree to disagree. I love my old family photos and they cannot be replaced by scanning them, it is more than just the image. The frames, the feel, the smell - that cannot be replaced and while scanning them might keep the what they looked like, it will never replace THEM. As the Japanese textbook says, and as someone else said this morning - we are different (!) Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 getting a hard time today hey rach. I am my dogs second fav thing. Second to food. He likes Japan, but a certain breed of Japanese dog hates him. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Actually Rach without treading on your toes here, photoshops today have amazing technology, they can fix up old photos, cure fading, take out wrinkles stains creases etc. They can make old photos as good as new. If photos are that important to you then perhaps getting some copies made and storing them away "just in case" might protect your cherished memories. Sorry if I seem too practical at times Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Kamo you evil bastard! Look at that post count of yours! My most important possession? Hmmm not sure actually. Link to post Share on other sites
mikazooki 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 evil aplenty, if thats what u after.... this will make no sense before u know it Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 Awwww mate! Now this is some freaky sh!t! Dang! Just so this makes sense later on..... **Both Kamo and mika had 666 posts** All we need is a third and evil will rule the world! Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 kamo - my last post on the subject The whole point here, which I either don't seem to be communicating well or you don't seem to get well, is that I do not want a copy of my old photos. I don't want them touched up. I don't want copies. I don't want them "as good as new". I want them as they are, in their frames (which also have value), with all their flaws...that is what makes them them. Anyway, have a good one Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 rach sweetheart, I hear ya! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 19, 2003 Share Posted September 19, 2003 Some of my old vinyl LPs are very precious to me. Link to post Share on other sites
Roger's head 0 Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 That's a difficult one. I reckon that would be a book that my grandmother gave me just before she passed away. Hard to explain, it's just real precious to me. Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted September 20, 2003 Share Posted September 20, 2003 I don't know what I would do if I somehow lost all of my data. Years and years of all these files I have been dragging around. I know them like the back of my hand. Of course nothing is really all that important, so I would probably just move on. Incidentally, data is by far the easiest thing to pack, save, and/or move with. Link to post Share on other sites
KlingKlang 1 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 My motor back home. Link to post Share on other sites
igloo 3 Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 My most important thing will be some letters my mother sent me, they are of course worthless in monetary terms but extremely important to me. I miss here. Link to post Share on other sites
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