Five Things in a Box

[Blue Velvet]

Is this for your school class discussion or something?

No. Why do you ask? I left school almost 30 years ago, by the way.

What five objects would you put in your box?

 

[harperjones99]

No. Why do you ask? I left school almost 30 years ago, by the way.

What five objects would you put in your box?

Can it be the same object over and over?

 

[agkm800]

No. Why do you ask? I left school almost 30 years ago, by the way.

What five objects would you put in your box?

Well, then, I will think about it. However, it depends on who you are. If you're my long-lost relative, I'd put family pictures, etc. If you're a stranger that I'd meet only for a day, I'd put my business card, etc. If you're my bride-to-be, I'd put something like my favorite book, my favorite food, etc.

 

[anjinha]

Well, then, I will think about it. However, it depends on who you are. If you're my long-lost relative, I'd put family pictures, etc. If you're a stranger that I'd meet only for a day, I'd put my business card, etc. If you're my bride-to-be, I'd put something like my favorite book, my favorite food, etc.

I think the point is for you to put things that show who you are, it doesn't matter who's receiving it.

 

[jmann]

My five boxed items would be:

1. an iPhone preloaded with my Music
2. My photo albums (in a set)
3. My MacBook
4. My favorite pair of shoes
5. a rubik's cube

 

[Hayduke60]

My descriptive five would be...

1. My old Jeep.

2. My old dog as he goes with the Jeep.

3. My hiking stick (the one I carved).

4. My GPS with my longitude and latitude loaded in.

5. My Reggae albums.

 

[Cleverboy]

1. An Original He-Man Master of the Universe action figure with Battle Armor
2. An iPhone with a note on it saying I will reclaim it later
3. A Recent Sketchbook
4. A Lightbulb
5. A colorful image of an ideological crest I hang on my living room wall.

~ CB

 

[eawmp1]

This is like therapy. Let's see:

1) iPhone loaded with my music and photos of family
2) my stethoscope
3) a Save The Children necktie
4) a world map with North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, and Germany circled
5) a Diet Cherry Pepsi 20 bottle

 

[ejb190]

1) My Bible - well used and full of notes
2) A journal of interesting quotes I have heard over the years.
3) My Albert Einstein action figure (All the knowledge in the world is useless if you don't act on it!)
4) My collection of invasive plant and insect samples - though you would need to request an Import Permit to receive them...
5) One of my favorite photos of my wife taken while we were on vacation in Colorado a couple of years ago.

 

[greygray]

My 3GS, MBP, car, house and some pizza.

 

[c-Row]

• My iPod, filled with my favourite tunes
• One of my favourite books... either The Dark Tower (if that counts as one book) or Microserfs
• a book of collected concept art (not by myself)
• a London tourist guide
• a bag of prezels

Regarding my current mood, I might exchange the prezels for a long rope.

 

[Don't panic]

barring the obvious of inserting pictures and similar things,
some objects that would speak about me could be:

- a book. probably Douglas Adam's trilogy (of four)
- one of my kid's hand-made halloween customes.
- a bottle of Amarone, locked in this
- an eppendorf tube
- my hiking boots

 

[Little HZ]

1) An ipod touch loaded with lots of my favorite music, movies, and photos (of family, pets, and my favorite art--mine and others')
2) A pair of my favorite blue jeans
3) The course catalog of the local community college, with some of the courses I am thinking about taking circled
4) a jar of my favorite chili sauce
5) a copy of the book "To Kill a Mockingbird"

But after I think about this some more, I'm sure I'll come up with an entirely different list ...

 

[Ugg]

1. My passport
2. My fully loaded touring bicycle.
3. A fresh tomato from my garden.
4. An unfinished copy of my family history.
5. A sprig of rosemary.

 

[iBlue]

Well since it's a hypothetical box which could [in theory] be metaphorical anyway, my items are going to be in this box:



and you're going to need this key to open it:





Inside will be:

1. A black sheep.
2. A very worn map of Los Angeles with a few leaves inside.
3. My broken powerbook.
4. A thumb drive with a few carefully chosen photos, movies and music.
5. A big fat sticky nug of ganja.​

 

[designgeek]

5. A big fat sticky nug of ganja.

You're going to make all kinds of friends.

 

[eawmp1]

5. A big fat sticky nug of ganja. [/INDENT]

Unless you plan on eating the sheep, you better pack some snacks. The receiver is going to get the munchies.

 

[iBlue]

Unless you plan on eating the sheep, you better pack some snacks. The receiver is going to get the munchies.

Hey, that's the receiver's problem! This was a box that contained things that tell the story of me. Munchies are a personal preference for the moment at hand.

 

[kroeks]

1) A picture of my cat
2) A cuddle-bear
3) An empty package of Lucky Strike cigarettes.
4) One Free Menu-coupon for a McDonalds Restaurant in The Netherlands.
5) A yellow guitar pick

 

[Unspoken Demise]

Am I getting these things back when I come to see you?

 

[arkitect]

The box will be a tad worn and tatty, but inside carefully packed

A loaf of bread I baked…

​

Tools of my trade…

Far from home…

Time is running too fast…

Something to listen to…

***********************
These don't count as one of the five items because every box needs a few of them.

 

[leekohler]

1. A DVD copy of John Waters' Desperate Living for too many reasons. Most importantly:
a. It illustrates how anyone with the will to do so can make a film that is funny, intelligent, disgusting, transgressive, political and relatively popular & long-lasting.
b. Shows how people don't have to be traditionally attractive to be stars.
c. It tears down convention so beautifully, and I am all about that.

2. A DVD collection of films I've made with directors Todd Verow, Jeff McHale, Esther Bell and Shawn Durr for the exact same reasons as above. I like to practice what I preach.

3. A box of condoms. Probably one of the most important things a gay man can own.

4. A pomegranate- for stressing the importance of good health.

5. One antique clock from my collection- probably this one from the 30's for being so ahead of it's time.

 

[MultiM]

Great question. I really had to think about it.

1. A DVD collection of the TV show Firefly.

2. Photos of my animals: 2 dogs, 3 cats.

3. A figurine of a dragon. (fantasy style, not Asian)

4. Digital copies of my favorite books, too numerous to mention titles, but all Sci Fi or Fantasy.

5. A pair of sandals or a golf shirt.

 

[Blue Velvet]

All enclosed in a Lindauer Rosé box...

Of course. I would expect no less. Bubbles always put a smile on people's faces.

my yellow blankey

I have a red blankey. A friend bought it to me in hospital as my feet were getting cold.

2. Sky Ball.

I like that. It looks like loads of fun. I'll keep it!

3. My hiking stick (the one I carved).

I'm not sure why, but that really touched me. My granddad had a stick he carved for himself from a piece of wood he had found on the beach.

4) My collection of invasive plant and insect samples - though you would need to request an Import Permit to receive them...

Creepy, but intriguing. How invasive? And can they be trained?

this box:

Nancy Drew would be proud.

1. A black sheep.

So understood.

A big fat sticky nug of ganja.

Which I'd always try to share.

Am I getting these things back when I come to see you?

Yes. Except the Sky Ball and the sticky nug.

Something to listen to…

Excellent taste, although I haven't heard that one. Have got almost everything else of hers, though.

One antique clock from my collection- probably this one from the 30's for being so ahead of it's time.

Love that clock. I'll keep that as well.


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OK, my five.

1. A hardback copy of the I Ching. Not sure which translation, but probably Wilhelm or Karcher. The Book of Change, many many thousands of years old, it sees all things both near and far. One recent regret I have is not reading it enough over the past year or so. But you can't have my stalks.

2. A copy of a David Lynch film on DVD: Inland Empire It's about a woman in trouble, and is a meditation on identity, personality, grief and redemption. Many won't get it, but some will. You may have to watch it four or five times to get the gist of it, though. Best watched on a dark day.

3. A Pinkie Bar Only available in New Zealand where I was born; my mother says I was made from them as it was her main pregnancy craving at the time. So sweet you can't eat more than one in one go.

4. A copy of QuarkXpress The page layout app that I got my hands on. Like all first loves, both adored and despised for what it did to me, and even now today, I still can't get it out of my system.

5. A copy of my quarterly drug prescription All tales to be told could be deciphered from that small piece of paper.

And bonus item:




6. You

 

[Clete2]

A computer, Rush Limbaugh / Ronald Reagan (hey, you can fit people.. and bring people back from the dead, right?), some pictures that I took, and some other things...