EDC Kit Containers

Hi Guys! If you are reading this right now you are probably a survivalist or someone of the like. Good! Great actually! And if you are a survivalist you are probably aware of the advantages of having an EDC kit and carring it every day. So I'm not going to go into in too much detail. If you are reading this, are a survivalist, know to advantages of owning and carrying an EDC kit are, but you don't know what  EDC stands for, take in the knowledge I am about to give you! EDC stands for EveryDay Carry and refers to a survival kit that you keep in your pocket or on your person. Good now thats sorted lets get on with things!

After you have picked out and collected the items that will be contained in your survival kit you must choose a container. This may seem easy, but you need to work out how to are going to carry it, if you want a tin, a plastic container or a soft packaging, and if you think your kit may expand and evolve as it grows older and you grow wiser after using it lots, you will need to keep that in mind. If you want a tin, it's best to consider if it is painted inside, because if it is you can't cook in it without packing youself with harmful chemicals, feeling horrible for about 24 hours and then dropping dead from being poisened. Which defeats the purpose of trying to survive in the first place.

Personally I am a big fan of tins especially Altoids tins, of which are suprisingly hard to come by in Australia- where I live! Plastic if fine I suppose, but you can't make charcloth in it! They probably have more of a chance of being waterproof. An as for soft ones like small cloth bags, I hate them. You can't do anything in them. And get them near water an they are soaked through before you can snatch them from the water! The only time I like cloth/ facbric in the wilderness in in back-packs!

              Above are some examples of my Altoids tin kit with the waterbag strapped to the bottom.

 

Survival Sewing Kit

Hi guys! Just wanted to share with you dudes the new sewing kit I found at my local supermarket. As you know, every good survival kit or BOB requires a sewwing kit. End of story. Anyone who goes hiking and things like that should have one too. As well as being able to sew up torn clothes (and the odd deep laceration), this kit goes one further, offering a mirror. And as you know that is always a good thing. Infact, this mirror is so durable and reflective, it has completely eliminated the need for me to carry a dedicated signaling mirror. it has the basics for sewing including multiplue thread choices,a needle, a needle threader, some buttons and a saftey pin. All this is a housed in a ultra small for factor, being round in shape. It is 6cm wide and only 0.75 cm deep! it easily slips into a pocket and I am lead to believe it was designed for ladys to carry in their handbags (but don't worry, I'm male and I haven't found anything that suggests it to weird for us guys to keep in case of emergency). It may not be a military one, although I doubt it would be possible to find a kit of this caliber, even in surplus that is this cheap. I only paid $2 AUD for it! What a bargain! And I really and truely think that this is a neater all round package than anything this cheap or small on the market.

PS. I have since magnitised the needle, hence creting a makeshift compass. I also dipped the tip of the end that pointed north is pen ink so I could remember which end I was to take a compass bearing from! It can all be used for sewing to and if required and the needle can thread though the middle of a button so it will float better on water!