After seeing an Urban Survival Kit like this one (and this one, and this one and this one), I just couldn't resist making my own. Forget the Boy Scouts, this little project brought back memories of Cub Scouts, where we crammed a survival kit in a film canister. My, that was fun, though good luck to us if we ever needed one. Still, it planted the seed of preparedness.
So here goes - what I managed to cram in an Altoids Tin. It's worth mentioning that I decided: (a) to focus the kit on things that would actually be useful on a regular basis (b) I tried to limit what I stored in there so that it wasn't impossible to repack.
Contents:
- Two rubber bands
- Blister treatment
- A couple of standard band-aids
- $20 in cash (a lot of money for a husband to be carrying around, thank you very much)
- A large needle - figured if I'm carrying dental floss, might as well carry a way to use it for sewing repairs
- A couple of waterproof matches and a striker. Sorry, as an Eagle Scout, I can't make anything with the world "Survival" in it that doesn't contain *some* way to start a fire.
- Headphones / Hands-free for my cell phone. Probably the most useful item in the kit - turns my cell phone into a TV, radio and entertainment center in case I'm stuck unexpectedly some place
- A roll of dental floss, which I fairly recently found has a million uses
- A lightload towel - another million-use-item. From improved bandage, to signal device to emergency TP, it does it all
- A P-51 can-opener - the take-anywhere (including through TSA checkpoints) multi-tool that just so happens to be super tiny and dirt cheap
- 4 quarters - useful for feeding meters
- A sheet of stickers - useful for keeping the little one happy. Also helpful for marking purposes
- A small coil of wire - used to fill a void in the case and to keep stuff from jiggling around
So what's in your get-through-the-day kit?
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