100 Cheap Survival Items to Stockpile: Dollar Tree Prepping 

Took my kids to the dollar store ($20 each) and made it a game... Who can get the best bugout bag items. It was fun!!

This guy really seems to care about giving us good information for free. Two thumbs up.

A one dollar can opener from the dollar store is a bad idea. I bought one and it broke the first time I used it. If you are depending on a can opener for camping or shtf, buy a quality one. A can opener is too valuable of an item to risk it not working.

I actually just got back from the dollar store and then I saw this. I usually go there to stock up on wax candles, canned goods, rice, medical supplies, supplements, ect. Thankfully everything at my local store is 1$ flat. I recall this time where I was leaving the store and I overheard a group of women say: "only poor people shop there lol" and I found myself thinking: smart people who wanna save money on everyday items shop there.

Using coffee I bought 20 years ago for Y2K.... fresh as the day I bought it!

Use the sponge as emergency water gather picks up morning dew in dry conditions.

I need to fly to Canada just to go shop at that dollar store cause where I live, you won't find 80% of those stuff in a dollar store.

I'm not even kidding I made a Dollarama winter vehicle emergency kit this morning

The Dollar store preps and restocks i always get are: trashbags..Lighters long ones and small bics..matches..hard candies...kitchen gadgets. Cold packs. Ibuprofen and aspirin..baby wipes/body wipes..aloe vera gel...chapsticks..tea light candles..sometimes batteries..flashlights. .cotton balls/pads..toothpaste/brushes..nails...alcohol..and peroxide...and im going to get extra for possible trading/gifting to loved ones..better to be prepared than sorry..Look at Venezuela!!! And after watching this video i need to get petroleum jelly..jute twine/ropes. And if nothing happens then im earthquake disaster ready. Get prepared people..its not going to be pretty..things will get much worse before they get better..love from Southern California

Shopping like a boss, appeals to the masses greatly. Not everyone has a few grand to drop on the more expensive investments 👍🏻

My wife is an addict. Virtually every day she has to drop in at Dollarama. *Never* does she come back out empty handed. I have renamed the institution "DONNArama." Yeah, her name is Donna. LOL

Save old crayons. You can melt them down to make candles with the jute twine.

Birthday candles for starting that campfire. Thin sanitary pads to use as bandage pads. Raw honey to use as a topical antibacterial (but not for infants or toddlers or anyone with a compromised immune system). Chamomile tea bags and generic sinus allergy tablets to use as mild sleeping aids. Pocket size paper tablet + mechanical pencil for leaving notes or writing directions.

I use the laundry mesh nets to throw my socks in to wash and dry, never end up with lost socks.

Don't forget your toilet needs: cat litter for the smell when you poop in your plastic bag lined 5-gallon bucket. And if there's no toilet paper, make a bidet with a squeeze bottle full of water.

“The People’s Shopper.” I like it. It’s not about being some cashed up super-nuke-proof-bunker owner. It’s about having a constructive approach to the resources available to you. A very grounded video.👍

The cheap pie pans are good for plates and you can cook in them too.

I have always found that you get what you pay for. I would like to add though, not sure if they occur in Canada, but here in the US, Estate Sales are all around. Amazing places to find great stuff cheap. I went to a few today and loaded up well. At one, I bought over two hundred, yes two hundred candles for $8. Not little birthday candles, real ones. At another sale, I bought a box of rope for six bucks. In a store, the rope that I bought today would have been at least $60.

Fire starter: vaseline on a q tip. Light with a long handled lighter.

Damn, Canadian dollar stores are way better than the dollar stores near me in the northeast USA. Still have a couple of weeks left to stock up before the election chaos, and of course the regular winter stock up. Stay safe everyone!

I've had to use a ladies maxi pad when my father cut his arm quite badly. Believe me he wasn't even embarrassed

Buy glass jars? Save your pickle and spaghetti sauce jars. They will reseal once more at least.

Fyi, I bought one of the 900 lumen lights @3:47 tested it in the store nearly blinded myself.. brought it to the cash, girl was like this is cool, turned it on, blinded herself.. fun times lol

Another great place to find deals is thrift and 2nd hand stores. Also check out pawn shops for hand tools.

I was in prison from 97-99 and it just hit me that my entire stay was basically prepping 101 lol

One of the items I've never heard mentioned are finger and toe nail clippers

Great video. The one thing that strikes me as I watch this, and as I've been buying stuff the last months, is that it's all nice and good to have all this stuff, but you really have to be well organized and store it in an orderly manner so that you actually find what you need when you need it. I can see myself when the shtf looking for something, knowing for sure that I have it, but unable to find it amongst all the other supplies I've accumulated.

the magnifying mirror also makes a great fire starter

Don't forget to get some wool socks. They dry out faster than cotton. Great video .

Solar lights usually go for a buck here in Indiana dollar tree. Rechargable a useful low profile especially with safety comcerns if you have children. Just dont forget them out in the rain and they last a long time. Dollar tree here sells tarps for a buck as well. Keep up the budget prepping info so many people out of work everyone is going to value and likely be able to prep better on a budget.

The double carabiner bungee cords are great. I use one (from Dollarama too) to carry groceries over my shoulders, because I usually walk to most shops, but also typically want to maximize what I can stock up on in fewer total trips. Which became even more relevant with this pandemic. I doubled over the bungee cord and wrapped it with some fabric to shorten the total length to about 2ft, and give it some padding around it. I fill my backpack with the heavier/dense stuff, and then split the remaining goods into two reusable bags. One bag for each carabiner clip. I sling the now bungee-cord connected bags over my neck, after putting on my backpack, and then I can walk or bike with hands free. The two clipped bags hang in front, balancing out the backback weight, which is why I prefer this a bit over simply having a larger capacity hiking bag for now. Yeah, I could probably just buy another backpack and wear it on my chest, but this way, I have a lot of flexible carrying capacity with me in my bag at all times, should I be on an errand and discover a good sale on something or the bulk of lighter objects would be a waste of backpack space.

One thing lots of prepper channels leave out are supplies for those that wear glasses. While I hope most of us That do think of things. People with glasses should keep their last script for an extra pair, lens wipes, and some way of securing them to your head in case they get knocked off.

I think the silicone oven mit can also be used as impromptu puppet show item. When food doesn't taste that good, anything goes, man

NATE! Honestly!! .. These are the kind of vids I came along and havn't seen for a while now! 🤣🤣🤣👍 Well done, man! Thx & please keep it that way

Nate, this may have been your best video to date!! Certainly hits home *here*... Thanks, and stay safe!

If you're looking for an inexpensive pot for cooking, Goodwill & Salvation Army stores are a good source. I got some mini Crockpots at a Goodwill for $5.00 each-and they work very well.

Your dollar tree is way better than the dollar trees we have in Ohio. We don't have half those things! I literally was just at the dollar tree looking for things like this!

Unrolled cotton balls dipped in wax: You can get a fire started in high winds and have impressive 6 feet long sideways flames for a couple of minutes. nearly burnt my shoe soles with that one!

I enjoyed this. If you cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil, you have a big reflector and use fewer candles. I keep getting in case the shoe laces break. Tina

Your DollarRama looks much better than our Dollar Tree here in the States.

Watch out on those 1.00 can openers! They don’t often work. Buy them from the regular grocery store and spend 3.00-4.00 at least.

Cast iron pan at a dollar store wow

Hey Canadian Prepper, been doing some personal observation, and what the overall community (outside the channel) thinks: And the word is out, and almost everyone has you in their top 3 list. Damn, buddy. Keep up the content, cuz the community really does ya!!! Hahaha

Good list, but delete the cheap can opener. They often break on the first use. Just sayin'. Thanks, btw.

Wow, you have rubbing alcohol! I haven't seen that since the Great Prepping Rush last March.

I've bought the kitchen cutting knives, and they work really well. I've had mine for at least two years and it still cuts great!

Canadian Prepper: I have followed you with two of my RU-vid accounts that is how much I appreciate your work and totally love your videos. We have to prepare daily is the motto.👍

DOLLAR TREE still sells "everything for just $1.00" - and has some good stuff ! BTW - those canning jars are a HUGE bargain - totally UNAVAILABLE in the USA now !

They weren't going to look into a kid's backpack until you told them 😂.

Dude you're dollar stores are so much better than our pound shops!!

On the pot, go to the pet section and get a stainless dog bowl. On making bleach with Pool Shock, be careful what the additives are in the pool shock, which could make the bleach you make unusable for water purification due to toxicity.

Awesome job! I just went to the dollar store and spent $32 on some stuff I didn’t have in my bag! Thank you. Best thing is that expandable towel

"...Rambo a wound.." --I love it!

My brother in law had a sign in his yard that he made. It said, " This Property is Protected by a Twelve gauge Shotgun Three Days a Week. You Pick Which Days. He didn't have any more problems with people walking through his property lol.

At least HALF of the food we have put back has come from Dollar Stores. Its very good quality and it allowed me to buy more 2nd Amendment Pellets....

I am at Dollar Tree now and just found disposable diaper bags that are scented. Those could come in handy.

This is the best Dollarstore ever. The products they have are amazing. Let's go Brandon!🤘

Hi, Prepper. The best wipes for "sponge bathing", if you can get them, are Fisher-Price baby wipes. They are great, because they actually absorb odors as you wash with them. I have used them many times and they really work well.

I really need to keep watching your videos. Its so glad to be back and supporting your videos. I stopped for a number of months. My prepper mindset brought me back here alongside with other researches Ive been doing

Outstanding. Well covered. It's amazing, just how many items, have Bunches of survival uses. Crystallized bleach, is very handy and lightweight, if you need to Bug out. So many great items. Seems like each different Dollar store, has it's own unique collection of items. Good to shop several store's for items.

Damn we dont have cast iron pans or contractor bags at our Dollar Tree!

Great video! Informative and entertaining. I really do hope people are paying more attention, to prepping for any contingent, as things are quite likely going to get gnarly. Thanks for all the good work that you do Canadian Prepper! Keep safe.

If you buy one of those cheap folders at the dollar store, you're going to be needing that super glue to stick your skin back together when the knife breaks at the hinge. Yes, one of those cheap folders broke when I was using it. The "keeper" that prevented the knife from folding backward broke when I was using it.

I feel good I already buy a lot of the items you talked about. Love the spring clamps. I use them for chip clips to close the bag

It seems like Nathan has a kink 😄 Actually in all seriousness, I'm really happy that you made this video.

I lost it when you showed a "paddle" to go with the handcuffs. That was hilarious! Now I want to go prepper shopping. NOT for the paddle and handcuffs 😝

If it's got the hose with it you can always use it as a shower but hang in the yard tree and let the heat up in the Sun and I'll work as a quick shower to rinse off

Your Dollar Tree has absolutely nothing like our Dollar Tree is due. You're always actually has some useful stuff.

Ive been doing this for yrs, i first started in 9-11-01 👍👍👍👍

I am already looking forward to rewatching this in a few years when I will finaly be able to go full out on the shopping.

Baking soda, every time I stop at a dollar-pound-euro shop, usually I come out with at least a one pound or half kilogram package. Multiple cleaning, medical, and cooking uses.

Great idea for a starter kit with the ability to upgrade individual items later when able. I will need to buy new items for everyday life soon when I move to my new place in a few months, most of this list matches what I will need. Loved this idea.

Went to one of those $ stores in Kamloops, BC in 2016. Wife and I was pulling an RV down from North Pole, Ak. and the wheel bearing went out Lol! I found a dealer that had the parts, so I repaired it in the parking lot of Days Inn.

Really enjoyed your humor in this episode! You made me chuckle a few times, thank you!!!

Thank you CP. I have been prepping for forty years. I always learn from you!

Extra toothbrush pack ... when you upgrade to a better brand later, these can be for barter or the “help a friend” pile.

hearing that intro... I knew All American Prepper will come in the video even if just for a second 😂 And he did!

This is super exciting-- I wanna go to dollar tree now 😃 (Am I the only person excited during these times?? 🤔)

Thanks for sharing I made a list and going to buy what do not already have stored. TYVM!

I grew up with severe ear aches. A rubber water bottle was my best friend. I was just telling my wife about those weeks ago. Wondering if they still made them? Now I know.

Being math challenged, I was shocked by totaling up your shopping spree: I am afraud you spent $278.14. LOL GREAT SHOW

You have some good suggestions. I like the cheap coffee filters, since there's a good chance I'll never use them. The dried bleach/pool treatment tip was helpful. Earlier this year, when we couldn't find bleach Walmart had lots of pool treatment chemicals. I suspected that they'd work but wasn't sure. Since regular bleach has a limited shelf life, the dried stuff looks useful. I think I'll pick some up and include a tip sheet on how to use it in case I forget. I noticed that the over the counter meds at my dollar store usually have about one year on their stated shelf life. I live in the the south, and the interior of a vehicle can easily get over 120 F in the summer. Even top quality meds will break down in that heat. I keep an assortment of these cheap meds in my vehicle first aid kit. Every so often I pitch the expired stuff and I'm only out $20 or so. Some solar yard lights sell for as low as a $1 each. Keep in mind that those are inexpensive solar battery chargers. Where else will you find something like that for one dollar? I like the ones that have a switch that let's you turn them on and off. I also look for the ones that have easily removable batteries. Most solar lights run on AA rechargeable batteries that are 400 to 600 mha. Those don't have a long run time in some devices, but they are better than nothing. They will run some LED flashlights on low power for a long time. You can use the light itself for interior lighting (think a kids night light), or recharge your better batteries in the lights. You can charge a higher mha battery over the course of a couple of days if you turn it off so that the solar light is not coming on at night and using up your battery. I have a couple of LED lights than run on a single AA. Their lowest settings claim 45 to 60 hour run times. With 8 or 10 solar lights I can keep a couple of flash lights, or a head lamp running for a long time. Whenever I come across non working solar lights I try to scavenge the rechargeable batteries. More than half the time when the light doesn't work it is not the battery, but the seal around the solar panel had failed allowing the internals that control the charging or diode to fail. I throw the batteries into a smart charger and they usual come back to life. I use these cheap, low mha batteries around the house for clocks, cheap household flashlights, and my computer mouse. About once a year, or when a big storm is heading my way, I'll make sure they are all fully charged.

I wrote this all down. Its good to have a list in Emergency mode. I have these items but put them in a storage bag or tote in case of going on the run...best of luck y'all. THX C.P.

Every emergency kit should carry panty liners and menstrual pads. They are ultra absorbent for larger wounds. We keep some in the barn too, for animal injuries. Just wrap a little medical or duct tape to keep it in place. More absorbent than any bandage you'll find.

My regular Dollar Tree payday list: soap, toothpaste, Curad bandages, batteries, cookie mix, ibuprofen, canned vegetables and fruits, spices.

The most practical Dollar Tree "shop with me" ever created. No decorations, just survival. 💪

All the items mentioned by you are also good for regular disaster preparations. I keep mine in heavy duty plastic bins in case of tornadoes, heavy rains. Easy to store, to throw into my truck bed or take into temporary shelters.

Great video. I go in the dollar store often and I always think about what is here that I can use in emergency. Your discussion on the uses opened up uses I hadn't thought of. Thanks man. Much appreciated

It's a global reserve currency for the moment- maybe not for long. Many disconnecting from USD.

Cool beans on the cheesecloth usage. Never thought of many of them. Hair elastics? I never woulda thunk it.🤗 Kids backpack? Good one. Foam disposable plates can be washed a time or two if care is taken.

Thanks for making these videos !! I have learned a lot from you and several other youtubers about prepping.

I'm a first time listener and I thought this information was very helpful to me. It just confirmed some things I need to get. Thanks.

This is very useful information. Keep up the good work Canadian Prepper.

I'll definitely check out my dollar store with $35. I heard they also sale hand held fan. Here in the Southwest I'm sure I can benefit from a 1/2 dozen 😀👍🏼

All American Prepper real close to the surface today! I love it. The whole world can use a good giggle right about now. Tyvm CP! I worked at a Dollar General once for about a year. Worst employer in my life! Anyway, the stuff on the work gloves is what we used to call "fleather." Faux leather = fleather. Thanks again. Blessings

Here are a couple + things I find good to keep on hand. For repairs where stitching is required: large-eye needles, large roll of dental floss, reel of nylon fishing line. (These are also good for finer tying requirements - when paracord too bulky.) For firestarter, Dollarama has a 12-squares package of saturated sawdust for $1.25. Other sources sell 48-squares package for $7.00. So, very good deal and they work well. I always keep these in stock for my Motorhome’s mini wood stove. (They are usually sold near the candles section of the store.) I love regularly trolling thru Dollarama and Dollar Tree. Great help to learn where things are located and discover new finds. Cheers!

Omgaaad. Just starting to watch and love it already 🙃🇨🇦. A great end to a great day! Nice mask. I watched 2 of your videos from 2-3 years ago... and you've come a long way. Love this channel. Keep up the fun and good info. Genius creator.

Cast iron at the dollar store?? Canada dollar stores for the win!! Side note please don’t clean your cast iron with steel wool. That made my soul cringe

The sunshade you are holding is what I used to make a solar oven with.

I prefer tampons over cotton balls. So many uses. Tinder, one can just pull off the amount needed, dip in Vaseline and there you go, bandages, they are more compact, the ones with plastic applicators can be used as a makeshift life straw, not to mention their intended purpose😁