Great suggestions, thank you! I'll always have my little dog with me , so we both have a bag and I'll be pulling him and our bags in a small nylon wagon which I can discard if necessary.
Keeping our pets in mind is important. We have a fallout shelter here and on our "action list" we have for heading in, we include popping vacation feeders for the fist and to take our hamster with us. Pets are family. :)
The best addition to this bag would be defensive training for the item you dont really like and isn't very good, but it's convenient, as you said lol. Fear of the tool can be the cause of many tragic accidents, although carelessness ranks up there too . I would recommend anyone get training on any defensive device they choose to carry. Real life rarely plays out as it was envisioned, and people revert to their level of training in a crisis, not their level of thought exercise 🤣. Alot of great recommendations though, thanks for showing!
I don’t know how I ended up here! I’m not American, I’m alien to the idea of survivalist and I don’t understand why anyone should feel as a priority the necessity of being prepared to catastrophic events, like you mentioned as main objection to this kind of videos. However, I find interesting the topic as long as it stays within the boundary of what is likely to be useful day to day: carrying water, sunscreen, windbreaker, band aids, disinfectant and this sort of stuff might really be convenient. It’s connected somehow to military or boy scout / hikers’ preparation but in a daily use perspective
Personally, I think both types of preparedness are useful (mundane and catastrophic... and everything between). Day to day snags happen all the time. Sometimes things go beyond that. I was camping with my boy and he tripped and received a rather long gash on his head. Without the tools in my bag, that gash could have turned into something much worse than it was. The ability to clean it out immediately prevented infection and allowed it to heal far better than it otherwise would have. As for catastrophic events, those (unfortunately) happen every day as well - just not to most of us. But just a quick sampling from the daily news around the world serves to remind that while these events might not be something we each individually have experienced in our own personal pasts, they may be something we might encounter in the future. So I think it's good to be at least somewhat prepared for them (especially since it's not that difficult to be at least somewhat prepared). Doing so isn't just a personal benefit, but also creates a societal benefit. The fewer people there are that need help and handouts during a crisis, the better the help and aid can be used to target the people who REALLY need it.
I never heard back from that yakity yak commenter (which is not surprising). I'm like you, I also like hearing people talk about ideas that they're interested in.
In the past, I'd usually jokingly reply to comments like this saying that the writer should probably just stick to RU-vid shorts. But this isn't really helping you any. Instead, I'd suggest that you reconsider what's valueless to you. A lot of people DO find value in that "yakety yak". You (at present) do not. Consider whether people who find use in ideas explained deeply are idiots, or if maybe they're seeing something that you're missing. As I say in this video (at some point), building a bag like this should be custom to the individual. So it's perhaps more important to talk about the "why" than the "what". That's why I talk about the "why" a lot.
