Everyone is embarrassed to say it, but tampons are an excellent addition to a survival kit. I have a whole box in mine. Not just for women who might need them, but they're understandably excellent at plugging puncture wounds.
For fire-starters, I have cotton balls soaked in vaseline I keep in a little baggie. They haven't gone dry in years. Throw a couple in your fire pit and light them up.
If you get MREs, the penne pasta and vegetable manicotti ones are good. Avoid anything with whatever they pretend is cheese. Peanut butter also carries an enormous number of calories in a pretty compact package.
Also, no paracord in your list? I have literally traded lengths of paracord for a knife before. That stuff is fucking gold. :)
Well said. Menstrual cups are so much cleaner anyway and you don't have to change it as often as a tampon. Nor does it cause toxic shock. I kicked the tampons years ago. Saves a ton of money and space.
Some old fashioned white birch bark is amazing. You can put it in water and hit it with a flame and it will burn due to the oils in it.
Also pine pitch. It's Amazing burns like model glue ( old world model glue ) when you see a pine with a natural break or old cut and it's thick and white. Use a blade scrape it onto a piece of birch bark. Shits amazing
Nature provides so much for us
Enough to start wet wood. Depends how much you use. The bark you can scrape and make like a dust to hit with a flint rod
Pitch needs a flame to start .. search bushcraft " fatwood "
Lighter and matches should be in a kit ( just remembered that )
Everyone is embarrassed to say it, but tampons are an excellent addition to a survival kit. I have a whole box in mine. Not just for women who might need them, but they're understandably excellent at plugging puncture wounds.
For fire-starters, I have cotton balls soaked in vaseline I keep in a little baggie. They haven't gone dry in years. Throw a couple in your fire pit and light them up.
If you get MREs, the penne pasta and vegetable manicotti ones are good. Avoid anything with whatever they pretend is cheese. Peanut butter also carries an enormous number of calories in a pretty compact package.
Also, no paracord in your list? I have literally traded lengths of paracord for a knife before. That stuff is fucking gold. :)
I like em and the crackers
I am blanking on remembering if it was called a ranger cracker or ranger bread, but whatever dry flavorless wafer thing was usually the best part.
Especially since those were the ones that came with jelly packets, and you can usually trade those. People love sugar.
Ranger bread lol I have some at home
Well said. Menstrual cups are so much cleaner anyway and you don't have to change it as often as a tampon. Nor does it cause toxic shock. I kicked the tampons years ago. Saves a ton of money and space.
Some old fashioned white birch bark is amazing. You can put it in water and hit it with a flame and it will burn due to the oils in it. Also pine pitch. It's Amazing burns like model glue ( old world model glue ) when you see a pine with a natural break or old cut and it's thick and white. Use a blade scrape it onto a piece of birch bark. Shits amazing Nature provides so much for us
How long will it burn for
Enough to start wet wood. Depends how much you use. The bark you can scrape and make like a dust to hit with a flint rod Pitch needs a flame to start .. search bushcraft " fatwood "
Lighter and matches should be in a kit ( just remembered that )