What is your most treasured possession?

My pictures

My most treasured "possesion" is dead. She was a Siamese cat named Sweetpea. She was so beautiful, and so nice. She loved to sleep on my chest. I still miss her almost two years later.

Myself - the only thing I truly possess.

Material things - My photo albums, jewelry from my grandmother and great great aunt, my great great aunt's old scrabble set, my teddy bear from a close friend. The stories I have written, the jewelry I have created. My computer and car, but that's a different sort of valuing.

My most valued possession is the love of my family and friends. Ok. so it is really corny and cheesy, but hey that's what I value.

I really do not treasure material things at all, but anything my children or grandchildren give me, I value. My family are my treasure. I hold dear to my heart an elegant mother's ring my children gave me and my father's Bible given to me when he passed. I value pictures of my family. My dearly departed parents, my memories of them I value.

Brian. aw. :(

cats

Sara, my girlfriend

This is my survey. My most treasured possession is my piano, it is the one expensive thing I own and is beautiful.

My bear.

How funny. My SO and I were just talking about this. Not counting humans or animals which to me, are the things in this world worth treasuring. I have decided...none of my possessions are worthy of my treasuring, because....I would not want to place so much value on something that my heart would be broken if it was taken away. Not even my car folks...that's right!

...it is possible at any moment for THINGS to be GONE!
So I better damn sure value myself and my loved ones above all else.

Our keyboard. I may not play it constantly, but when I do I get so much enjoyment out of it. I really NEED it. That's followed closely by my other musical instruments, and the CD collection and player.

too difficult to answer

I would like to say that I place no value on possessions at all, but if my house went up in smoke and my violin burned with it, I'd be devastated. It would be the first thing I would think of.

I doubt I have one. I have a number of things I'd have difficulty living without, like my car or my wardrobe, but those are more necessities than treasured possessions. I certainly don't think of my family as possessions. I have a lot of things that I really dig, like my guitars or my computer or my DVD player or my CDs, but do I treasure them? Hmmm...maybe the guitars.

Reading Natsim's comment reminds me - lately I've been storing my dissertation materials in the freezer, as a saving measure should there ever be a fire. I wouldn't say that it's my most *treasured* possession, exactly, but it's one that I'm going out of my way to protect. I also leave "latest drafts" on various friends' computers when I travel :)

My computer hard drives, very closely followed by my books.

A teddie bear that my grandmother gave to me when I was around 2 years old.

My most treasured possessions are inherited. A ring from one grandmother, a piano from the other, cherished things that were my father's.

I have a lot of sentimental items that I treasure, like my old journals, photo albums, and scrapbooks. I would be really upset if they were gone forever.

Most of my most treasured possessions are sentimental, not material...

I don't tend to treasure photos of loved ones- I found that if I had a photo of someone on the wall, then when I pictured that person, I'd picture them as I saw them in the photo, but if I didn't, then I'd remember them in a more wholistic way. On the other had my photographs of my work are very important to me. Mostly I use them as a tool to get more work, but also as a way to understand the learning and the progress I've made. If I had to run out of my burning house or something, I'd try to grab my cat and my portfolio. I don't really think of the cat as a possession, though, and I don't think of the portfolio as cherished as much as it's a really really important tool. I'm more emotionally attached to some of my paint brushes, but I could replace them far far easier than the portfolio. This all makes me realize how much I really need to scan in some of my more recent work and make off-site backups, then I could keep my hand free for something more tender to me, like my bear and my baby-seal-club.

TwM: alas, it is also possible any moment for people to be gone.

'tis true...but they are worth investing energy in grieving over...

things aren't.

Bizarre
I put a smiley on the end of that last comment but it didn't show up...hmmmmm

stuffed dog that I got on the day I was born

Some of my photographs. All the other stuff is replaceable.

probably my homes.

I wasn't really thinking of my cats as possessions. They'd rank above home though.

TwM: I have not noticed that investing energy in mourning things leaves me with less energy to mourn people.

The 1 I love

This 1 goes out to....

My hair and my Oxford English Dictionary.

A baby blanket that my grandmother made for me.

I don't think I have a treasured possession.

My picture of Rhadha-Krishna.

Family photos and a homemade patchwork quilt my grandmother gave me when I was a child.

my puppy