Sooo...do you have a condom in your bugout bag...?

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No not for what you are thinking. I just saw on TV that you can make fire with a condom provided you are in a fairly sunny area. Fill the condom with water, until you have a nicely transparent balloon and use it like a large, strongly curved magnification glass. Pretty neat idea, the packvolume couldn't be any smaller :).
 
LOL , sounds like it might work but why not carry a small mag.lens instead. no water needed,unless you have some of those fancy coin sized towels to wipe sweat from your brow after all the waiting around looking silly holding a condom full of water and your saying to passer byers it is not what it looks like,I trying to make fire with a water filled condom.:D
 
Just my opinion, the water would probably have to be very clear (something hard to find here, even at campgrounds). An unlubricated condom is a good compact water carrier, but I still just carry an oven bag, marked at 1 liter.

I think Ill just carry a fresnel lense if i wanted to start a fire by magnification.
 
I wonder if the lubrication is oil based: oil + rubber = good firelighter!
 
Don't carry any of those but I have a assortment of heavy duty latex balloons which can carry water, use as a tourniquet, use as a bobber or float, can be used to tie about anything, Will keep pressure on a wound when used as a bandage. Probably a lot of other uses as well like marker bouys and such.
 
foxyrick said:
I wonder if the lubrication is oil based: oil + rubber = good firelighter!
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They use water based lubricants on jimmy hats (or it would dissolve). Hey... maybe you could make a solar still from the rubber and use it to produce clean water from the lubricant.
 
Knowing MY luck, as soon as Id got the fire going, the condom would burst & the water would put out the fire! I'll stick to fresnel lenses.
 
Gee, you guys sure go out of your way justifying carring a condom! :rolleyes: "But Honey! It's prt of my survival kit!" :D

-- FLIX
 
I should put one in my kit. In an EOTWAWKI situation, I'd want to get laid one last time. :D
 
you could carry a fresnel lens and a condom, so you can impress your partner into thinking it really IS magnum sized.
 
I remember getting a survival tin for christmas a number of years ago when I was in the scouts, it had a non-lubricated condom in it. I'll have to dig it out.

Matt.
 
It'd suck if you just got the fire going with your only condom when a really hot chick would show up with a zippo asking what you up to.
 
I have them in my hunting bag to cover the barrel of my firearm if it rains. Who doesnt have Mag XL's on em all the time?;)
 
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