I put one together around 25 years ago.
It is still sitting where I left it. Probably need to raid it for useful items as I am too old to bug out and it probably never was a real option.
If you live in a rural area like I do, you house is probably your best refuge.
I hear ya about the home being the refuge.
I am working this bag to do just that; get me home.
I work close to a fairly large city but live where the EBT types probably won’t make it out once the city is dried up.
Just trying to plan if the road ways are jammed up and I get do a force march to my abode...
Not to be cute but as long as you have a gun you can get everything else you need/want on the fly...if you get my drift. Just be careful not to run into anybody else with a gun!
I hear you man, I’m too old to become a refugee and my home out in the boonies is my refuge of last resort.
But I am assembling a ‘contingency backpack’ to keep in my car in case I’m cut off from returning home by natural or unnatural forces. A few years ago my neighborhood was completely cut off by flooding for a couple days. Thankfully for me and my furry friends I was home when it happened, but next time I might not be.
So for the furry friends I’m using two methods of automatic watering (they can survive weeks without food but only days without water) and getting a set of items together for my car.
I’m actually going to be keeping the items in a ‘contingency bucket’, a big plastic bucket with a sealing top, for better protection. I can keep more items in there than I could easily carry, but my thinking is that I may not have to separate from my vehicle at least at first. If I do have to leave the vehicle, I’ll take a subset of the items with me in a backpack which I also carry in the car.
We’re rural and agree our home is our bug out. There’s fish and wildlife. The pantry is full. Probably much saver to stay put.