Posted on 11/04/2009 8:11:03 AM PST by ChocChipCookie
“the ‘flame stick’ which when rubbed with iron/steel makes prodigious fire starting sparks.”
Which ignites 0000 steel wool instantly to make a fire starter .
Spare batteries for the remote control. How would you like to be in a survival situation and have to get up to change the channel? Or worse, be stuck on CNN? (shudders)
And how disturbing that that was the first thing that I thought of....;-]
If you were, then you probably don’t.
If I had a dime for every time hubby asked me “WTH are you *doing*?”, I’d be rich.
[what? doesn’t *everybody* poke a stick in the ground to see what time it is??]....LOL
From the Ozarks born, from the Ozarks bred, in the Ozarks is where I'll be dead.
Ready Ping
Good on ya!
Lifelong Appalatchee, myself, from ancestors who’ve been here since the late 1600s.
[We’re born, live and die on the same mountain]....:))
When you run out of tubes you can stuff the tires with almost anything soft, like old clothing to make the bike ridable. A mountain bike survivalist once told me that even grass works in a pinch when you're out in the boonies.”
Good point, and good info. I'm considering filling my next punctured tube with some of that urethane-foam-in-a-can from Lowes or Home Depot to see if I can't make puncture-proof inner tubes. I know they're available, but last I checked too expensive for my current budget. Survivalism on the cheap can be fun, but also a PITA.
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