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Survival Kit Hack: What to Buy at the Grocery Store!
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Jun 8, 2025
Think you need fancy gear to build a survival kit? Think again! In this video, we’ll show you how to create a budget-friendly, effective survival kit using some items from your local grocery store—yes, even from the checkout aisle! We’ll cover: ✅ How to repurpose everyday items for survival use ✅ Clever container hacks using tins, gum cases, and travel-size kits from the checkout lane ✅ Tips for building a compact kit for your car, backpack, or home Whether you're prepping for power outages, road trips, or unexpected emergencies, this DIY grocery store survival kit is perfect for beginners and budget-conscious preppers alike. 🔔 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more survival tips and hacks! #SurvivalKit #DIYPrepping #GroceryStoreHack #EmergencyPreparedness #BudgetSurvivalKit Prepared Wanderer AMAZON STORE: https://bit.ly/3Jjs1iO Prepared Wanderer Patches and Stickers: https://thepreparedwanderer.bigcartel.com Prepared Wanderer WEBSITE:
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in today's video we're going to be
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taking a look at survival kit items that
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you can procure from your grocery store
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and make at home They don't have to cost
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a lot of money Stick
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[Music]
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around Hey everybody welcome back to the
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channel And today I wanted to do kind of
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a I don't know a short video of some
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items that I have been finding lately at
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my local grocery store and Walmart These
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are items that um I'm actually seeing in
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the checkout lines And what we're going
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to be looking at primarily is containers
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that you can get at your local grocery
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store in Walmart and how you can turn
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these things into
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uh components for your survival kits
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fishing kits hobo fishing kits things
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like that So there's a lot of different
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options out there and I want to show you
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some of the things that I've been
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discovering lately and see what you guys
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think You know when we go
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to the grocery store checkout uh it is
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filled with candy And candy containers
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um I'm finding are excellent resources
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for building kits around And um if
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you're going to be buying this stuff for
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yourself anyway or for your grandkids or
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whatever um and you have these
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containers why not upcycle them turn
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them into something else something
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that's more productive And uh these
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little M&M mini containers I'm finding
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are pretty cool and they come in
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different colors So this is a red one
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Here's a blue one where I've taken the
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label off of it It's a pretty good size
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container Uh so there's a lot of things
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you can do with this Also uh I'm finding
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these little Altoid tins um very handy
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This one is uh the I don't know what
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these are Arctic I've never heard of
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these before but it's kind of a cool
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tint because it's got a hinged lid to it
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but it's still metal so you can do stuff
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with that for survival And then of
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course this is what I would probably
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consider kind of the uh gold standard of
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uh candy container survival kits It's
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the old
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Altoids standard metal tin
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And I have tons of these in my in my
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gear boxes and I use them all the time
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for storing stuff But what's great about
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them is that they make fantastic
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containers to uh house your flint and
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steel kit and uh to make char cloth And
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that's why this
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one is not your typical color So what I
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what I did is I um sanded all the paint
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off of this and then um burnt it in the
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fire making my char cloth And this is
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how it comes out And then of course the
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more times you use it the more of that
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dark rich color you get But it's a
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fantastic container for uh making char
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cloth and holding the flint and steel
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kit It can hold a pretty good sized
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chunk of
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flint There's a smaller one
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There's my striker out of an old file
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And then in the bottom I just keep a
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bunch of these swatches of old clothes
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These are I think um from a pair of work
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pants or something Cut them up It's kind
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of a denim uh cotton
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material And that all goes in the
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tin And now when I get to camp and I
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make a fire I can make some char cloth
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with this And the tin also serves as a
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way of protecting the contents Uh you
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know flint and steel that big piece of
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flint is pretty sharp and you want to
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keep that uh protected in your pack You
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don't want that just you know loose in
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in a pocket because it will cut through
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the material on your backpack or or your
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uh your gear So the metal container also
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serves a purpose of protection So the
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Altoids uh tin Awesome Of course the
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other Altoids tin that I showed you Now
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on this one I actually put some
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mini fishing stuff in here So a lot of
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times um with survival kits you'll get
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these
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little spools of monofilament line And
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uh there's not terribly lot of
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monofilament line on here but it is
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useful So instead of throwing that away
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or not utilizing it I take those out of
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some of those kits that I get and then I
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add to it Here I've added a little bait
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that's um already rigged and ready to go
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Just need to hook that to some line So
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that's got it's a grub with a sinker
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head on it And then this package here uh
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this contains um some leader line some
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hooks and some sinkers And then the only
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thing you really need to add to this is
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probably maybe a small um
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bobber But that all fits into that
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container very well And once again it's
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protecting the the the
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contents and it keeps it all nice and
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neat Another candy container that I see
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a lot of at grocery stores are these gum
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containers Uh the label I've taken off
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of this one But what's fantastic about
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these is that it actually has two lids
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open ways of opening So you've got this
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large opening here but then you have a
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uh small controlled spout And this is
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perfect
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for keeping your slingshot ammo um under
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control One thing about slingshot ammo
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is um it's very hard to contain and uh
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you know taking it out one at a time uh
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can be difficult sometimes So this
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little container that where I can just
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shake out what I want uh one shot piece
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at a time is it's very valuable So it's
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a nice little container and then of
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course you can refill it through the top
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lid Another cool container that I found
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recently or actually my wife found this
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and she gave it to me and I was really
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surprised by it This is a Tic Tac
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container Um it's huge Uh but once again
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it has several different ways you can
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get into it So you can load it up with
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whatever you want Now I in here I have
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about I don't know I want to say 25 ft
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of
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paracord Um if I shoved a bank line in
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here instead of paracord I could
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probably get a lot more But what's cool
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is this thing
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seals pretty well but it's got a hinge
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top right so that way I can I can load
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this thing fill it with what I want And
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similar to the gum container it has a
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spout And that's a perfect place to run
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your line
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through Get it all tucked back in there
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And now you have a way of pulling out
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cord just as much as you need but it's
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also protecting that cord It's keeping
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it dry Uh it's keeping it tangle-free
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and it's a really nice little easy
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container that you can fit in the palm
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of your hand You can throw this in your
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uh backpack in your BDU
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pocket and just pull that cord out as
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you need it Of course with this red M&M
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container I you know I have a feeling
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with red this needs to be like a fire
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starting kit So that's a very easy thing
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to build You know you should always have
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um uh a bunch of fire starters that
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maybe you've made at home These are
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little cotton I think they're called
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dental dams and then they've been soaked
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in paraffin But you know I can drop in a
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bunch of those at the
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bottom Kind of shake them down so that
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they fill the space really well And then
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what I can do is I can take a mini ferro
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rod put that down
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there And then here we have a birthday
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candle But this birthday candle is a
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trick birthday candle You can't blow it
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out So this is a nice windresistant way
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of starting a fire And then I can just
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pack more of these little fire starters
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around the
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edges Get it as many as you can in
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there Now you got a pretty nice little
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fire kit um that is very easy to
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access Keeps the contents all uh
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contained um really uh not a bad idea
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for maybe a kids survival kit or their
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backpack Now of course what I would do
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is with a children's one I would make
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sure I would take the candy label off
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and I would wrap this in something like
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duct tape and then I would label this
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fire kit And of course and of course I
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would show them how to use this before
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they ever go out Just this is not
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something you just stick in someone's
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backpack and hope that they're going to
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figure it out But for a kid you know
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there's a few items in here that they
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can get a fire starter Now of course
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they're have to know how to use a ferro
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rod That's something you need to teach
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them um and decide of course if they
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need to carry a pocket knife or not If
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they don't or you don't think they're
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old enough then you need to put a
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striker in there for them and have them
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practice at home and how to fluff up
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those tinder tabs But they can get a
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fire going with this little kit Another
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kit that I just finished making and uh
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was a lot of fun actually was a hobo
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fishing kit Um fishing kits have a
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really good place in in the whole
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survival kit um realm because even
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though food is never a huge priority
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when you're trying to get out of a
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survival situation the hope is of course
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you're going to be rescued long before
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you ever need food And the human being
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can go a very long time without food Um
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but uh it's also kind of fun um to have
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one of these small fishing kits with you
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and throwing it in your daypack so that
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if you are out hiking and you discover a
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stream or a small pond in the mountains
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and you want to just fish for a little
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bit and try your hand at it well you got
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some stuff to to mess with and it's
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great practice And this one uh what I
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did is um first of all I stripped off
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the label and then I wrapped it in duct
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tape Now these
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containers are kind of thin in the
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middle and I think it's that's
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intentional of course because they're
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trying to save as much money as possible
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So they're very flexible very thin The
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duct tape helps uh strengthen the
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container a little bit gives it some
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more structure but also that duct tape
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can be taken off a piece at a time and
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utilized um in my survival situation
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Then what I did is I took a zip tie and
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I tied it um a little bit closer to the
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top about 3/4 way up And then I started
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wrapping my Kevlar line around this all
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the way
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up And once I came to the
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end I cut a notch in the lip of this
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container so I could put that uh line
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through it And now it's all contained
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and it's not going to come undone And of
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course the line at the bottom is tied um
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through the zip tie So that's not going
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to go anywhere So that's your line And
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what's kind of nice about this is with
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the zip tie what I've
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discovered it fits my hand really well
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and that is kind of a place for my
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thumb So now I can kind of control how
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I'm going to use that line And I think
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the the big experiment is of course is
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taking this out and trying it and see
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how um it does coming off of this
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container We we'll have to see how that
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going to work It it may or may not but
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at least you have the line that you can
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utilize Then at the bottom what I did is
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I had some of this mason's twine It's
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really tough stuff Um very hard to cut
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but I I made a little lanyard and then
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put tape over that so it doesn't go
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anywhere So
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now you know this hangs and I can grab
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this and I can start fishing And then
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some inner tubes uh thrown over there
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just as grip but also as emergency fire
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starters And in this kit uh is a ton of
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stuff So I've
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got another one of these little
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grubs here Looks like a little
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minnow or
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tadpole Got these little bait
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balls Couple different floats Styrofoam
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floats That one probably needs to be
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replaced Starting to
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disintegrate here I've got uh a whole
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bunch
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of sinkers and hooks
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And then this is another little
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container that I had that I filled up
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with all kinds of stuff There's
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additional hooks in here There is
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another little there's another little
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critter to fish with And then of course
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um some of these
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mini
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leaders And there's
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even a small spoon
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little
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fly some additional line This is
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monofilament line once
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again And a larger sinker these little
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egg
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sinkers So there's a lot of different
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stuff that I I was able to pack in this
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uh tube And these little tubes you can
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find these all kinds of different places
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Um you know a lot of times uh different
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kits will come with these tubes like
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eyeglass kits repair kits things like
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that So um you know always be on the
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lookout for containers of all different
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sizes in all different places because
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you can find some really good stuff And
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I never I never throw stuff away that um
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I think I can reuse um for these types
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of kits And of course honorable mention
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is always uh pill containers Now this is
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this is a smaller pill container And um
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I found these uh espit uh style fuel
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tabs that are round and they fit in this
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small pill container perfectly I've got
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uh see one two three four five um fuel
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tabs in here And what's nice about this
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is you know of course these fuel tabs
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they always smell Uh they stink really
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bad but if you can put them in a pill
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container that's going to keep them
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fresh dry and it's going to contain that
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odor so it doesn't get all over your
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gear So pill containers are always
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fantastic um containers that you want to
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keep I've done a video in the past on
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how to kind of do a DIY fire kit using a
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very large pill container Um I'll put a
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link u for that Um but you know any of
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this stuff is easily found and for most
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people it's trash You know they get it
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they buy it they throw it away and they
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never think about it again But um as
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preppers and survivalists and bush
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crafters we should always be thinking
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about how we can upcycle and recycle
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items that we find in our environment um
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not only as an exercise for your brain
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um on how to improvise things but also
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just how to save money and get to know
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your gear better Because of course you
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can go out and buy a very expensive
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survival kit and those are awesome at
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times but sometimes making your own
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stuff um just makes it even better You
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get to become very familiar with it And
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then of course uh the other thing to say
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about it is go out and test the stuff
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and see how it works for you carry it
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and make improvements to it and keep
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changing it and eventually you'll have
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some really awesome gear All right uh
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