What's the strangest item you have in your survival kit/pack?

Next Tuesday, I'll have my wisdom teeth removed. Novacaine would be good then.

The articles were good. I've survived earthquakes by SIP. I even rescued a deaf person from a damaged apartment building, and put out a potential fire in another.
 
stsparky said:
Next Tuesday, I'll have my wisdom teeth removed. Novacaine would be good then.
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You just make sure that you and your Dentist have a nice talk before he numbs you and/or sedates you. Make sure that s/he is going to give you a real painkiller and not tell you to take Tylenol or Advil. Take someone with you, too. There is nothing worse than having a mouthful of bloody gauze in a Pharmacy waiting for your Rx to get filled. Also, go to an independent Pharmacy and not a chain store like Wal-Mart, Walgreen's, CVS or Rite-Aid. They are told by management to go slow on the Rxs because they want you to shop. Even if you have a mouthful of bloody gauze. :D

The articles were good. I've survived earthquakes by SIP. I even rescued a deaf person from a damaged apartment building, and put out a potential fire in another.
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Thank you.

And, you are a Good American, and I don't mean that in the petty, jingostic sense of talk radio. :)
 
Don,
Thank you. My dentist is someone I trust. My wisdom teeth have ice cream cone roots, so they should just come out. Pain meds don't seem to work for me. Local will have to do.

One thing articles should mention is that research is a good thing.

You would want to know if your home is in the middle of a flood plain for example.
 
I only had two wisdom teeth and they were impacted. It felt and sounded like he was breaking walnuts inside my head. I can eat a sandwich with one hand and help someone clean a deer with another (I actually did that and my mother was turning green. Bologna and ketchup. :D ) and the sound of him breaking them up made me want to hurl.

Hopefully they should come out just fine for you!

Yeah, flood plains and a whole lot more. I didn't think about putting that in that series of articles.
 
stsparky said:
Next Tuesday, I'll have my wisdom teeth removed. Novacaine would be good then.
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wishing you all the best for it. Local anaethetics don't work for me, as we found out while taking out my wisdom teeth ...

still I'm with you Don, the sound is worst.
 
Thanks.

I remember being knee deep in cold muddy water one CES in Vegas, so now I'll research weather and drainage in areas I'm visiting.

Storing water and food would also make for a good article. Id like to see post disaster inspection techniques covered too.

For example looking for fires, I found the smoldering mattress by a combination of smell and chance luck. The building had no water pressure, so I smothered the foul thing with a wet blanket and dumped it into the building's pool. A busted lamp sparked it and was burning internally.
 
Coffee beans. Not a lot just a handful in a ziploc bag for the strange or inconvenient time that you pull an overnighter some where and forget your toothbrush. It does not Dan your teeth but does replace the dragon breath plus give you a natural stimulant if that overnighter was A hard nights work. Might just give you that ummph to make the commute home.
 
Speaking of wisdom tooth removal, I got dry socket on the first one I ever got pulled. And if that pain wasn't bad enough when I went back in to get it packed with clove soaked gauze, that s.o.b. used that little suction tube and actually stuck it in the socket. I had no idea it was coming... I bet I jumped 3 feet outa that chair while mumbling any four letter words I could think of. But it was much better after it was stuffed. Do everything you can to avoid dry socket.
 
A little black plastic key that ESEE includes in it's survival kit. Saw it in there and have'nt taken the time yet to figure out what the hell it's for!
 
The two weirdest things in my kit are probably
1. A ruffly 4' section of very thin stretchy rubber hose (exercise band.) Uses include water retrieval from tight spaces, used to siphon gas/petrol (urban areas) or other liquids, and also would work as a great tourniquet.
2. two small aerosol cans of cologne/body spray; which is prob the weirdest thing. The reason for these is: If lost in the woods spraying these will leave a discernible scent trail for search party dogs to help find me. They are also nice and flammable when sprayed at an open flame source like a lighter which could be used to signal for help or used in a defensive manner. Lastly while I would not try to light a fire with them like they were a flame thrower soaking a tinder source in the mostly alcohol liquid makes for a nice and flammable tinder source and extends the burn time some.
 
Bare Rib said:
2. two small aerosol cans of cologne/body spray; which is prob the weirdest thing. The reason for these is: If lost in the woods spraying these will leave a discernible scent trail for search party dogs to help find me.
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Or turn around the situation...Use some of that rubber hose to hold down the nozzle and fling the bottle one way and you run the other.:D
 
DH1 said:
Or turn around the situation...Use some of that rubber hose to hold down the nozzle and fling the bottle one way and you run the other.:D
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I guess maybe you could but, I'm pretty realistic about things and given my life I see myself in a L&F situation more than a E&E situation.
 
If you want some dynamite water kit, go to Pet's Mart or whatever store in your area that carries a lot of aquarium supplies and get some clear, plastic hose, six feet is nice. Then get a couple of the aerator (spelling?) stones that you place on the end of them. Then, go online and find a supplier for syringes. You don't need to get the actual needle, you just need the barrel of the syringe and the plunger. You want the biggest one you can find, Vet uses would be good.

You might get lucky and the hose might fit right onto the end of the syringe's barrel or you might have to trim that very carefully with a pocket knife or small, fine saw blade.

You can get that hose with the stone on the end down into crevices you cannot normally reach. It's priceless and you pre-filter sediment/particulate matter with the aerator stone.

It's also a multi-purpose rig. The stone and a couple extras don't really serve any other purpose that I can think of right now but the hose could be used for stoking fires and for a solar still or possibly other uses and the syringe barrel, sans needle, can still be used for a higher pressure irrigation tool to cleanse wounds, etc. :)
 
Tampons. They're super absorbent for their size, and work well when dressing serious wounds that need packing or extra gauze. They can be unfolded once opened. Nope, I'm not female. But, they may just come in handy one day for their intended purpose if my girlfriend forgets hers.

Second would be the grappling hook, but someone else has one so I feel a little less awkward about that.

Third would be a hemostat.
 
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