What do you keep in your get home bag/car survival kit?

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I had posted a thread a few days ago about what knife I should keep in my get home bag, and I ended up buying the Ontario Combat Knife (SP1) (here: https://ontarioknife.com/fixed-blades/spec-plus-series2013-09-03-16-58-57/sp1-marine-combat-detail)

I know I can't be the only 'prepper' on this forum. So show/tell me what you've got in your get home bag, bug out bag or survival kit!

In my get home bag, in order of compartments, front to back I have: I may be missing out a few things since I don't have the bag with me ATM but this is what I can recall.

Front, square bottom compartment:
LMF Mora Knife with the firesteel in the handle
A bunch of petroleum jelly soaked cotton balls in a ziploc bag
2 waterproof match cases with matches and striker strips
2 regular bic lighters

Front, Top most compartment:
150 lumen headlamp with extra batteries
SAK with small saw
Lip balm (I get chapped lips alot)
Maglite Solitaire LED with extra batteries

Middle Compartment:
Heavy duty rain poncho (similar to military style poncho, not just the plastic cheapo stuff)
Heavy duty work gloves that I took from work when I was a powdercoater
Leatherman rebar
Ontario Combat Knife (7" knife)
Compact waterproof survival handbook and a plastic knot card book (handy to have)

Rear compartment:
Several hand warmers
First aid kit
Winter gloves and hat
extra batteries for flashlights
3 plastic water bottles (i keep this bag in the trunk where it may freeze so plastic works well and it doesnt burst, not worried about cancer risk)
backpackers tarp with grommets (full stuff sack is the size of my fist)
ziploc bag full of paracord bundles to make tarp into quick shelter
bunch of beef jerky sticks (the jack links ones in the vacuum sealing not slim jims :barf:)
lightweight cook stove with GSI bottle cup (fuel canister nests nicely inside the cup and burner goes on top) this is not to cook food, this is to melt the frozen water bottles. I live where it snows a good portion of the year so if my water bottles freeze, i just cut them open, put the ice chunk in the cup and melt them to get drinking water. Also would be able to melt snow for this purpose or to boil questionable water that I may come across

Tell me what you think. Tell me what you carry in your get home bag! feel free to recommend anything you feel i may need, i may be missing the obvious here.

Looking forward to all of your replies.
 
Waaaaay too late, and way too tired to list all the stuff in my "get home" kit and basic breakdown bag, so I'll just list the blade related stuff.

Victorinox SwissTool, Fiskars folding saw, Fiskars X7 hatchet, Opinel #8, and a Kabar USMC model.

There is some redundancy there, but these see regular use, and get rotated in and out, so I'm not too worried about it. All in all, if I can't cut it, chop it, stab it or split it with that combo, I have no business dealing with it in the first place.


Edit to add:
recently, the Kabar has been swapped out with a Condor Bushlore. They rotate back and forth in pretty much the same role of primary fixed blade belt knife.
 
19-3ben said:
Waaaaay too late, and way too tired to list all the stuff in my "get home" kit and basic breakdown bag, so I'll just list the blade related stuff.

Victorinox SwissTool, Fiskars folding saw, Fiskars X7 hatchet, Opinel #8, and a Kabar USMC model.

There is some redundancy there, but these see regular use, and get rotated in and out, so I'm not too worried about it. All in all, if I can't cut it, chop it, stab it or split it with that combo, I have no business dealing with it in the first place.


Edit to add:
recently, the Kabar has been swapped out with a Condor Bushlore. They rotate back and forth in pretty much the same role of primary fixed blade belt knife.
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You could probably fell a forest with that combo. How much does it all weigh? (roughly)
 
This will get more responses in the Prac Tac section, and in fact will probably be moved there very soon.
 
2 gas masks
2 level 4 bulletproof vests
6 MRES
Combat Life Saver bag
2 gallons distilled water
Multitool, CS Kobun, custom hunter, and some throwaway
Pillow

A few things I can't remember.

This is my car kit.
 
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