The can has a thousand different uses, including its original purpose.
Ping worthy??
Night vision weaponsight,with mount would be nice.
Price range for the gift would be helpful.
/johnny
silver or gold coins.
Duct tape, bleach, plastic sheeting, rechargeable batteries, lighters, oxygen absorber packets (Ebay), 5-gal food grade buckets
Better Badder Flashlights:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2938879/posts?page=23#23
These people re not beginners. They have a ton of stuff stashed at multiple locations already including heirloom seeds.
The can has a thousand different uses, including its original purpose.
Katadyn water filter. If they have one, replacement filters?
bfl.
Looking for ideas myself for little stuff to pick up here and there.
I would like my own island.
It depends on the amount of money you want to spend, and what they already have.
Here’s a website that could give you some ideas, and then you could google for the best deals.
http://beprepared.com/category.asp_Q_c_E_404_A_c2c_E_ln_A_name_E_RadiosandCommunication
This brings you to several types of communication devices. I myself am kinda looking at the combo hand crank radio and cell phone recharger, since my car radio died and the lighter doesn’t work anymore for recharging the phone.
They have all sorts of other neat stuff too.
A Gerber or Leatherman multi tool is always a good gift.
The best one I have is an older Vice-Grip with semi needle nose pliers and Schrade tools on just one side. I am not sure if it is still made but that tool gets more use than anything I have.
Many years ago, comedian George Carlin did a stand up routine called “stuff”, that had a grain of wisdom in it about prepping.
He started out by describing your house as “a place to keep your stuff”. Then, when you travel a long way on vacation, you take a subset of your “stuff” with you. At your destination, you take an even smaller subset of your “stuff” as you go short distances. Finally, for the briefest of trips you take only your “bare minimum stuff” with you.
But this also applies to prepping. If you are staying home, you have all your prep things with you. But if you are evacuating, yet have time to evacuate, you still take a lot with you. Yet if you have only an hour or two to get it together before you go, a smaller amount still. Finally, if it is “grab a few important things” and dash out the door, you have the bare minimum you need to survive.
Now this being said, it is a major help if you have enough organization ahead of time to have different “manifests”, based on the situation.
And I imagine that most preppers don’t. They may have a good “whole house” prep set up, and maybe an evacuation manifest, but they might not have either a “two-hour” prep list or a “grab a bag and head out the door” manifest.
And *this* is your opportunity to give them a gift. It is as much giving an idea as it is giving “stuff”, but if you want you can make them a kit for the prep they haven’t yet made, but should.
Lots of good solar stuff at www.goalzero.com. A lot of their products are also on amazon.com.
Give them a how-to book so they can learn a skill. A local area foraging book with color photo pictures. A book on flint knapping and tools. A battery operated soldering iron with flux and solder. Farmers’ Almanac. A sundial. A 5 gallon bucket of canning salt. As many used Foxfire volumes as you can get for $50.