Posted on 03/20/2026 11:47:50 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper
I've recently gone back to keeping a Bug Out Bag (Get Home Bag), in my truck. I thought it a prudent step given that I live in a rural area, drive a very old pickup truck and note that the world in general appears to be getting even more crazy.
I've perused the internet and found multiple GHB/BOB lists covering the basics. However, I thought it would be informative to get input from my fellow FReepers who also have GHB/BOBs.
Excellent!
Pop Tarts.😊
That was 1964 dollars. Worth around $1050 today.
How do you look with the prophylactic, lipstick, and nylons, all on?
What? No Bible?
Practice.
When buying the first bug-out-bag, they tend to be very large. As your skills improve, the bag gets smaller.
I’m reminded often of that knife fighting movie “The Hunted” when Tommy Lee Jones heads off into the woods for a few days. Nothing but a good knife.
I used to traverse the Delaware Gap on my commute. I packed a bag in case the weather got bad out my car broke down. Radios chargers, maps, food, firestarter, even a 10-22 and a bow.
NY State Police got on me for the gun, and Pennsylvania game wardens (are far more powerful than people think) got on me for the bow (thought I was poaching). Now that I’ve learned how to make a fire even in the cold snow at night, learned Filipino knife fighting (3 years) and building snares and fishing line that bag isn’t even in my possession now.
It’s all about the scenario. Do you need to get a vehicle? 10,12,14,15,17,19 mm sockets, vice grips and a pry bar. Need to maintain caloric needs? An mre, uco candle, life straw and a mess kit. Risk injury? Forget the bandaids. Gauze, wrap, sutures and skill.
Even a gun isn’t in my “must haves” anymore. But my kabar is.
And this lamp...and this...
bump
Yes, all the important food groups!
Add salt tablets.
Being deficient in salt can kill you quickly.
Clearly that’s a question for Maj Kong.
You could have a great weekend in Vegas with that!
The “Bug-Out Bag” is one of the supidest obsessions in recent memory because it presumes some breakdown in essential services so severe that you aren’t safe unless you flee to somewhere else yet there mysteriously is some information service still in operation through which you can deterime where this magical safe haven is.
Unless you live in a coastal region prone to hurricanes, someplace with a credible risk of wildfires, or in a floodplain (et al), the whole idea of the bug-out bag is pure machismo fantasy.
The toilet paper shortage during the Cononapanic proves Americans are a bunch of panicky wusses. If there were a real large-scale emergency, by the time word reaches you, the gas stations would all be dry (meaning what was in your tank that morning is all that you’re gonna get) and there would be traffic jams on every road to anywhere. Followed by aggression-fueled collisions and random gunplay.
When what you should have been preared to do was shelter in place, with your full prepper’s pantry and water supply, and your ready rack full of AR-15s.
But if you insist on bugging out, please let me know so I can ransack your home after you leave to further fortify mine.
For later.
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Not mentioned....suppressor for your firearm. I carry a .22 with John Norrell suppressor I can take apart. Breakdown 10/22 would work too.
In 2020, in Covid, I had a “ready rack” with toilet paper and paper towels enough to last me into July. Because Costco and a largish house with lots of storage.
By that time, the supply chain had started to adjust to the greater need for residential TP, and the lesser need for commercial (office building toilet, restaurant toilet, school/institutional toilet) TP. So I could buy to replace.
I have moved. I still have lots of storage. I continue to choose to use some of it for appropriate shelter in place goods and gear.
If we’re on a coast highway or in the mountains when the big one hits there will be No highways left, all landslide or tsunami. We won’t be going to the mountains, we will be trapped in the mountains.
Store some supplies in a shed and if your house is damaged and you don’t want to walk to a place where help is then just stay in a tent or your shed in the backyard either no matter what you will have your supplies.
You need to learn more from the prepper threads, your thinking is shallow.
Fortunately for me, I'm usually constipated so my survival strategy is to just hold it until I get back home. ;>)
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