Don't forget that you can buy Gatorade dry in canisters and they take up less space to store for emergencies! Plus, cost is less per serving.
12. Gun and backup ammunition. Gun-control advocates won’t like this one, but I believe in our right to bear arms. Make them safe and out of reach of kids if you have them.
Okay, this one made me chuckle... not because it's not sensible, but better to just teach your kids to use the guns and be responsible with them.
9. Whistle. Whistles are great to carry along on hikes because they can make a lot of noise without wasting a lot of energy.
This is something a lot of people don't think about. I used to keep a whistle on a string around the bedpost of each of my kid's beds. Told 'em that was required for use in case of emergency. You never know when that might save a kid!
24. A wad of small bills, mostly ones and fives. Stores would soon run out of change and most vending machines only take small bills. (submitted by Greg)
additionally, keep change. Many people throw their change in a dish at the end of the day or when they clean their purse out and then turn it in for cash somewhere. Why not just keep that stash of change for emergencies? It *really* adds up and could be the best form of currency in some emergencies.
On thread one, some place are recipes for making Gatorade from scratch.
LOL, your change makes me think of Grandpa Ira, when his kids came, it was cause they needed money, so he had two wallets, one in his bib overalls and the other, inside in his jeans.
The bib overalls held $2.00, that was all he would have to give the kids, these were grown ones, who did not want to take care of him, but wanted his money.
We let him come to live at our place, he slept in his camp trailer and kept his hog and cow with ours.
And I learned from him, all that I could.
Yes, on teaching kids to use guns, but not all kids, for some do not have gun sense and I have a daughter in that class, she simply is not the one to hand a gun to.
Whistles, maybe, but Bill and I worked out a different manner of danger alert, I don’t use my first name and he didn’t use his middle, so that is what we called out, if we wanted the other here and now, a snake or some other reason.
We have had strangers come into our camp, while out prospecting, and that is not always safe.
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