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9 Reasons a Coffee Can Should be in Your Survival Kit
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Posted on 11/25/2012 8:29:12 PM PST by Kartographer
The Many Uses of a Coffee Can
Thats how a 1-pound coffee can can earn its way into your 72-hour pack. Consider the following uses for this light-weight and versatile survival instrument.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: coffeecan; preparedness; preppers; survival
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Reading will give you more respect for the lowly coffee can.
To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
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posted on
11/25/2012 8:30:37 PM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
and even better when it is filled with caffeine bearing beans.
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posted on
11/25/2012 8:36:44 PM PST
by
vox_freedom
(America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
11/25/2012 8:37:17 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Kartographer
Things can be buried in a coffee can for later use.......
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posted on
11/25/2012 8:38:09 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Kartographer
I buy coffee in large burlap bags. I'll have to raid the neighbor's trash. ;)
/johnny
To: Kartographer
Not many brands still metal. So many are now plastic.
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posted on
11/25/2012 8:39:59 PM PST
by
Exit148
To: Kartographer
Good points; I will remember to buy my next few cans of coffee in metal cans and not the plastic ones. They are handy for storing, but could not do all the things they point out here.
To: JRandomFreeper; Kartographer
Hmm, I'm buying Kroger plain ground coffee in cans that have cardboard sides. I'm buying their lowest cost coffee so I can store more coffee. A big can is something over $5.
Maybe more expensive coffee is still in metal cans?
I hate throwing away the cardboard ones - I keep thinking I could put something in them.
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posted on
11/25/2012 8:57:56 PM PST
by
Marcella
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Exit148
Not many brands still metal. So many are now plastic.Yep, and the smaller size plastic can with snap lid holds a roll of toilet paper behind the seat of the pickup.
To: Marcella; JRandomFreeper; Kartographer
Maybe more expensive coffee is still in metal cans?Safeway's house brand of 100% Colombian is still sold in a metal can, last time I checked.
To: Kartographer
A metal coffee can with a survival candle inside makes a nice source of warmth. You can even place a small piece of (metal) screen over it and warm up something to eat. The can both protects the flame and concentrates the warmth.
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posted on
11/25/2012 9:01:06 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Fate plays chess and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along)
To: JRandomFreeper
J.Random....Why do I like you!......
I know you're a crumudgemon....But Id want ya on my side if shits comes to giggles....Cooks are only worth their weight in Gold if they know what they're doing...
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posted on
11/25/2012 9:04:58 PM PST
by
M-cubed
To: Marcella
The ones with cardboard sides would be good planters for gowing or starting vegetables; they won’t get as hot as the metal ones. just punch a drain hole in the bottom.
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posted on
11/25/2012 9:05:39 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
11/25/2012 9:15:57 PM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(Cigarettes are like squirrels: Perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and set it on fire)
To: thecodont
I think there isn’t a Safeway store in this part of Texas - maybe no where in Texas?
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posted on
11/25/2012 9:21:42 PM PST
by
Marcella
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: piasa
“The ones with cardboard sides would be good planters for gowing or starting vegetables”
Thanks, that’s a good idea.
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posted on
11/25/2012 9:24:42 PM PST
by
Marcella
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Kartographer
I keep several of them in my trunk of my car.
One has a roll of toilet paper in it for emergency use.
One has a wine glass and corkscrew wrapped in a towel ... for emergency use.
One has a beer glass wrapped in a towel.... for emergency use.
They have come in handy many times!
To: Kartographer
A coffee can is a standard engineering unit of volume
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posted on
11/25/2012 9:39:35 PM PST
by
BlueStateMadness
(Two commonly violated premises: you can save people from themselves, and the free lunch myth)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
A metal coffee can with a survival candle inside makes a nice source of warmth. You can even place a small piece of (metal) screen over it and warm up something to eat. The can both protects the flame and concentrates the warmth. In his book 'Going to Extremes', Joe McGinniss describes being left in an unheated shack and having to get through the Alaskan night unprepared.
He found a candle, and sat in a chair with the candle in a can, beneath the chair, then he wrapped himself and the chair in a blanket or something.
A candle in a can between your crossed legs, as you lean against a tree with your poncho over everything, to capture the heat, can get you through a night, of course a candle lantern with a 9 hour candle is smaller and easier to carry.
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posted on
11/25/2012 9:43:06 PM PST
by
ansel12
(The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb Fischers successful run in Nebraska)
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