Choose three material items.

[Mickster]

A hypothetical question, but if you had to rapidly flee from your current abode with your family members during some form of civil or military crisis, which three items out of a possible supply of commonly-found household things would you instinctively reach for first?

And why those items?

I'd hope to have quickly within reach:
1. A multi-tool item such as a Swiss-Army-Knife, or Leatherman, or similar.
2. Some form of plastic sheeting material, such as a bin-liner or tarpaulin.
3. Some kind of tinned food.

Why?

The multi-tool could provide an opportunity to not only open the tinned food, but possibly cut down wood and provide the means to make a warming fire.
The plastic sheeting could provide shelter from the rain and also serve as a catchment for drinking water.
The empty food tins could serve as drinking vessels, or even cooking pans for grubs/insects/trapped-prey.


I hope that this scenario doesn't play out for any of our members, but you never know.

 

[Ian Rogers]

Sorry Mickster!!! The three items would be, A) my daughters HTC... B) my wifes handbag and lastly my sons hairbrush..

I wouldn't get a lookin... Ha Ha

 

[Mickster]

Sorry Mickster!!! The three items would be, A) my daughters HTC... B) my wifes handbag and lastly my sons hairbrush..

I wouldn't get a lookin... Ha Ha

At the very least, you could rest assured that the wife's handbag probably contains most of what you need anyway, plus some old bus tickets from 1978 as a bonus fire-lighter. Oh, you could also use the son's hairbrush to 'comb' the countryside...

 

[Grossel]

I watched "Man against nature" on tv yesturday. He successfully made a fire out of a cellphone battery. He stabbed the battery with the knife and the sparks was enough to get fire in some dry grass.

 

[jpanhalt]

gun+ammo
gold
scotch*

John

*Depending on the nature of the unrest, might substitute a pair of pliers.

 

[cr0sh]

Instinctively reach for? That kinda pre-supposes we've been thru this before. But - to play along:

1. My bug-out box. I built a box of items to have if things went south; it has a bunch of little survival stuff in it - enough to get you by for a week or so. It could probably be improved.
2. My pistol crossbow and bolts.
3. My truck.

Ok - I'm not sure that #3 is allowed, but I have a toolbox on the back that has a ton of stuff in it that could be used for "survival" in a pinch. I suppose if it weren't allowed, then maybe a tarp, or a machete - something like that. Come to think of it, I should re-vamp my bug-out box to make it bigger, and put the tarp and machete in it (and throw the whole shebang in the back of my truck).