Tallbald
Buckeye
A changing world requires a changing approach. With help here I've begun working on a homemade small scale water purification setup (food grade plastic pails with lids from the deli and bakery section of my local grocery store, ceramic filters, chlorine and boiling and storage arrangements). Food hasn't ever been a puzzling issue for us as we have simple tastes, grew up on farms, and know the drill.
First aide stuff comes naturally to us as retired nurses, Boy and Girl Scouts and first aide training. But things are now available to the public that weren't openly sold even 9 years ago. Two levels of kits are needed in my opinion.
1). A home based kit with many supplies which is stored in a safe dry and temp controlled area of the house. A good container I think would be a 5 gallon plastic pail and lid as sold by the home improvement stores in the paint departments. Packs a lot, has a tight lid and a sturdy metal handle. Floats depending on content weight and a moisture absorbing package can be dropped in for added preservation. Packs the same stuff as a portable kit, PLUS other niceties just impractical for portable carry. Can even be fitted with suturing kits and the like, as well as over the counter medications and such. Makes for a water container and a stool too in a pinch.
2). A smaller kit for car and camping trailer carry. Perhaps made from metal coffee cans having a plastic lid, dropped into a cheap nylon shoulder bag for easier carry. Or maybe several rugged all plastic containers instead would be better though, divided and labeled as to contents.These kits would need to contain only stuff that would tolerate extremes of heat and cold because they would be meant to stay in the vehicle year around. Bandages, OTC meds, tampons (I'm told they pack bullet holes nicely), of course bandaids, ace wraps, etc etc.
* Some here may say I'm wasting the time of fellow members and can find what I need on hundreds of "prepping" sites or buy good kits pre-made. But that's just the point. There are hundreds of sites wanting me to buy their stuff, be prepared to do open heart surgery in the field (sarcasm), take care of dozens of people for a year in my own personal clinic, and/or have items for treatment of some bizarre medical conditions I'd normally only see on TV. I can't do that and can't take FEMA's place.
I need to be able to buy the kit makings in Walmart, Walgreen's or on Amazon. Members here from military and emergency response backgrounds can sum up on one page what a practical person can assemble for under $100 to help preserve life and limb until better prepared agencies or folks arrive.
Oh. Also. As to the car and RV kits? I hope the contents are cheap enough all told that if stolen, I'm not having to save for a month to buy replacements.
And please recommend to Penny and me a small emergency medical care BOOK to have in both kinds of kits. One that even includes emergency child birth instructions. You just don't ever know do ya?
Thanks everyone. Don
First aide stuff comes naturally to us as retired nurses, Boy and Girl Scouts and first aide training. But things are now available to the public that weren't openly sold even 9 years ago. Two levels of kits are needed in my opinion.
1). A home based kit with many supplies which is stored in a safe dry and temp controlled area of the house. A good container I think would be a 5 gallon plastic pail and lid as sold by the home improvement stores in the paint departments. Packs a lot, has a tight lid and a sturdy metal handle. Floats depending on content weight and a moisture absorbing package can be dropped in for added preservation. Packs the same stuff as a portable kit, PLUS other niceties just impractical for portable carry. Can even be fitted with suturing kits and the like, as well as over the counter medications and such. Makes for a water container and a stool too in a pinch.
2). A smaller kit for car and camping trailer carry. Perhaps made from metal coffee cans having a plastic lid, dropped into a cheap nylon shoulder bag for easier carry. Or maybe several rugged all plastic containers instead would be better though, divided and labeled as to contents.These kits would need to contain only stuff that would tolerate extremes of heat and cold because they would be meant to stay in the vehicle year around. Bandages, OTC meds, tampons (I'm told they pack bullet holes nicely), of course bandaids, ace wraps, etc etc.
* Some here may say I'm wasting the time of fellow members and can find what I need on hundreds of "prepping" sites or buy good kits pre-made. But that's just the point. There are hundreds of sites wanting me to buy their stuff, be prepared to do open heart surgery in the field (sarcasm), take care of dozens of people for a year in my own personal clinic, and/or have items for treatment of some bizarre medical conditions I'd normally only see on TV. I can't do that and can't take FEMA's place.
I need to be able to buy the kit makings in Walmart, Walgreen's or on Amazon. Members here from military and emergency response backgrounds can sum up on one page what a practical person can assemble for under $100 to help preserve life and limb until better prepared agencies or folks arrive.
Oh. Also. As to the car and RV kits? I hope the contents are cheap enough all told that if stolen, I'm not having to save for a month to buy replacements.
And please recommend to Penny and me a small emergency medical care BOOK to have in both kinds of kits. One that even includes emergency child birth instructions. You just don't ever know do ya?
Thanks everyone. Don
