Cheap things to buy for your BOB.

[Snow Walker]

Plastic bags (freezer and garbage)
Rubber tubing
Electrical ties
Cord (550, jute twine)
Small bottles of hand sanitizer/soap
Small note bad
Small back-up compass
Small piece of cordura (3'x3')
Emergency blankets
DIY Firestarters
Bicycle innertubes (For fire and heavy duty rubberbands)
Bandana's
Cotton balls/vaseline
Empty film canisters/medication containers
Wire
Personal/Medical Records
Denatured alcohol and/or rubbing alcohol
Brown rice, Ramen noodles, Spam
0000 steel wool
Strike anywhere matches
9 hour candles
Trioxane fuel
Chemlight sticks
Coffee filters
Dryer lint

Great post! It's the little things that can make a difference!

Here's another idea in the picture below...

[emergprep]

Forgot the fire kit
200 wood matches dipped in parafin wax
ferrocerium striker kit
50 cotton bals dipped in parafin
small bottle hand sanitizer
zippo

6 light sticks
screamer n/p whistle
silva pro compass
copies of birth certificates, marrige lic.
Bible

[emergprep]

I put together a bug out kit that includes the following items
12x16 tarp
6 aluminum ground stakes
75' 3/8 heavy cordage
1000' Catfish/snare line
200' 550 paracord
neddlenose/linemans/dyke pliers
4 emergency blankets
4 od rain ponchos
Gerber MarkI
Gerber LMF
Gerber Parang
Daisy sling shot/1000 rounds of ammo
250 pc med kit
2lbs jerky
24 granola bars
salt
metal signalling mirror
6 4" solid rings (make great block and tackle)
bobber, spinners, hooks, sinkers etc in separate small kit.
All this packed into a three compartment "outdoor products" back pack
Most emergencies will last about 72 hours, hopefully this will outlast that time frame!

[PT945]

I went to the dollar tree today. Picked up some candles, bungee cords, matches, little sew kit, some cutting mats, and clothes pins, and clothes line.. not too shabby for 8 bucks..

I love dollar tree.

[TennOutdoors]

a folding handsaw. two dollars at the Dollar store. one of the best buys Ive made. had the thing for four years now. and have used it alot on hiking and camping trips.

waterproof pill bottles to store things like matches, tinder, spices or what have you. just ask at the Pharm if they can give you a few.

Roll of twine, hand as all get out.

Meat skewers can be used as spear fishing heads, tent stakes, in hunting traps and a ton of other things.

[maric]

I went to the dollar tree today. Picked up some candles, bungee cords, matches, little sew kit, some cutting mats, and clothes pins, and clothes line.. not too shabby for 8 bucks..

[maric]

http://www.totallyfreestuff.com/

http://www.totallyfreecrap.com/

Google online freebies and you will find alot more. Most of them have the same stuff.

I checked this site out yesterday.. no thanks... I entered a alternative email.. its a bunch of BS. Thought it might be, but gave it a try.. Im not gonna take 20 surveys etc.. to get a free trial packet of Tide.. Maybe you have some tricks to get through all of it.. Im not up for giving out my address..read the fine print- they sell your SOUL ..lol :)

[Echo2]

The spigot key you can tie a piece of paracord around and swing it around.....if you pop someone in the grape with it....or the fence pliers for that matter....it's crayons for Christmas.....

[troubled troubadour]

Mind sharing any of the freebie websites?

http://www.totallyfreestuff.com/

http://www.totallyfreecrap.com/

Google online freebies and you will find alot more. Most of them have the same stuff.

[TacSKS]

Mind sharing any of the freebie websites?

[PT945]

Well they do ask for an email so be prepared to be bombbarded with junk mail, I have a second email just for that. For the Harbor Freight deal, its 100 percent free. I work next to one and take advantage of it all the time. My friends and family have the flash light to prove it.

I've got a junk email addy, if that's all they want and no phone number or physical address I may look into it.

[troubled troubadour]

Well they do ask for an email so be prepared to be bombbarded with junk mail, I have a second email just for that. For the Harbor Freight deal, its 100 percent free. I work next to one and take advantage of it all the time. My friends and family have the flash light to prove it.

[PT945]

Cheap??? How about free. If you join harbor freight's mailing list they send you coupon freebie every week. They have a 9 led flash light that is sweet for the price. Also I've been checking out freebie web sites. You can get anything from food and coffee to tools and flash light. All they ask for is your name, address and email and they send them to you.

I'm a firm believer that nothing is free, everything has a price or a catch.

[troubled troubadour]

Cheap??? How about free. If you join harbor freight's mailing list they send you coupon freebie every week. They have a 9 led flash light that is sweet for the price. Also I've been checking out freebie web sites. You can get anything from food and coffee to tools and flash light. All they ask for is your name, address and email and they send them to you.

[PT945]

My favorite place to get cheap Bob/kit items is dollar tree and harbor freight.
All the items in the first picture cost a dollar or less. The folding knife and match holder are a Buck at Wally world. [IMG][/IMG]
The fire steel is from harbor freight cost 2.99 reg price 1.99. When there on sale[IMG][/IMG]