How TO Make A Pill Bottle Survival Kit (DIY) 

I build my own kits, too. Suggestions: roll up a grocery store plastic produce bag to use as a water container; they will hold more than a liter. You can fold and roll them tight enough to secure with a slit drinking straw. Fill it from a stream, add a water tablet, and carry it inside one of your socks for added strength. Shorten your straw of antibiotic gel, you won't need that much. Use the room gained to fill another short straw with Vaseline, and use that to rub into your cotton ball for an improved tinder. Don't use Steri-Strips (or the antibacterial gel) on a puncture wound; only use them on small gashes/cuts. Using them on punctures traps bacteria inside and promotes infection instead of wound drainage. And maintain your tetanus inoculations.

A small fire steel and a food produce bag in exchange for three of the matches. You still have emergency fire and a way to make water. Very nice Ben.

I did a lot of those when I was in the scout 20 years ago but we made them with old Kodak film container!!

Cool kit. I always put a button battery (2016, 2032, etc.) with electric tape around it in mine. I slide an LED in one side for storage. To use, pull out LED, and slide one leg on either side of battery. Boom! Flashlight!

Good set up boss. little tip = You glue compass out side on top of the blue cap .so you don't have to take off all item's to use compass

Clever little kit, I like the mirror tip and bandaid. Surprised how much you fit in the container. Good job. Thanks. Tony

If you have it, wrap a couple of ranger bands over the Kevlar cord. They do a couple of things: 1) Protects the cord. 2) Adds friction to the outside of the case which helps to prevent it falling out of a pocket. 3) Ranger bands make a very good flame extender. Very helpful if your dealing with marginal or wet tinder.

A crazy amount of items packed in that bottle 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

A great starter kit for those interested in preparation for those unfortunate moments in life. Because, a small kit is better than nothing at all. 😁👍

Nice kit Ben. In mine, I also carry a P-38 can opener, along with a needle and thread.

I do - they were always quality intros but once seen I prefer getting straight to your insights,, recommendations and advice which I always value! Thanks again!

nice. I use the small bottles for my matches. Since my girl is pregnant, I keep her prenatal vitamins bottles, much bigger and they hold a ton of stuff. I also keep a smaller bottle full of cotton balls impregnated with Vaseline and since the other has the UCO Stormproof matches, those two bottles alone make for a decent fire kit. they also work great for sewing and repair kits, don't have the worry about the needles in those. These bottles are great in conjunction with an Altoids tin.

Great kit well done keep the whistle on the outside clip if you need to make a quick signal or scare off an animal you don’t have to go digging around for your whistle

Fantastic idea. I use pill bottles for all sorts of small kits. Battery storage is good for packing spares.

Nice kit Ben! I never thought to put floss picks in a kit! Thats a great idea! I'm gonna add some to my kits! Thanks for the good ideas!

Dang I never thought about using a pill bottle I have a bunch sitting around. Thanks for the idea.

Actually working on something similar to this myself. I found a small waterproof capsule with carabiner top at Dollar Tree (who actually have lots of cheap survival stuff). It came with earbuds, but I just got it for the case. Your kit really needs a micro light of some kind. Yes, fire gives light, but you can't waste a match every time you need to light up a particular area or signal for help. A few needles and sewing items wouldn't be a bad idea either. And a ferrocerium rod to compliment the storm matches.

Very cool! never ceases to amaze me the stuff you can cram into a small survival kit! great video!

Awesome video (as usual) Ben! I have several of these bottles laying around and have made a couple of them into match safes. Never occurred to me to do a mini survival kit. Excellent idea! Great choice of contents also! Thanks!!

Absolutely loved pill bottle video, sanitize gel in straw as Neosporin, saniwipe. How creative, very inspiring. Awesome job bud. Really going to play with this concept. Thank you so much ✌️

MAN I love your videos. It's so nice to see some videos that aren't just knife batoning videos for a change of pace. I always learn a lot from you Ben. :-) Thanks!!!

Your kits are among the best I have seen and I have seen many. I would put some needles that could be used in conjunction with the kevlar cord.

Another thing to consider with a kit like this is, another bottle will screw onto the lid of this one, doubling your kit size.

Great idea! Thanx for sharing!

That's a great kit. Thanks for sharing

Great Job on this kit, like seeing these videos from you..........

Great idea! Love it, thank you.

Another great vid! Thanks and thanks for foregoing the intro. Super to get right into topic!

Good planning and using common items to do it with =)

Pill bottles are great.... I use a couple for tender/fire kits.

Good looking kit Ben! I like the idea with the mirror and neoprene.

I would use a smaller hook size, #8 or 6, a coil pack of 6 or 8 lb test leader and a few small split shot. It is more probable to catch small fish than large in fresh water and this size hook and leader will hold a large fish should one bite - if you don't try to horse it in. The hooks and shot can be carried in the leader package which is usually 2 plastic disks on a center spindle. Carry extra hooks! Use the pill bottle for more important gear such as matches or meds

Great for throwing in your truck glove box. Good job man

Great ideas! I would love to make one for myself too. I like to wear a Tilley summer wide brim hat that has a pocket inside. I like to use heavy duty small pouch and make small kits to place in the hat. I have a mini chem light, handcuffs key, band aides , safety pins, compass, and a mini ferro rod in the pouch. I live in Farmington Michigan , so the areas that you probably hike and fish, I am there too. Great video

Made one of these in scouts as a kid. That’s where prepping started for me.

Nice kit. The little square floss containers are great to put a couple of snells into, maybe a couple of split-shot wrapped in scotch tape. Floss is very strong. I have them in all my psk’s.

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

Great kit. I would add a little bit of money like a $20 bill i and maybe a quarter in this kit and in the kid's kit that you made in another video. Thanks for posting.

I LOVE this...this is my xmas present this year for family and friends lol

Nice! Think for that particular bottle, one Birthday Candle should fit. Gives you a little light for the night while you're trying to get a Fire going. Hope this helps.

Brilliant idea 👌👊

Thank you for making this video. You should add a liat of items in the description

Duct tape wrapped around bottle, then wrap some fishing line, then some cordage secured with ranger bands. Plastic bag for water, rolls up tight, takes hardly any space

Awesome vid Ben!!

Outstanding 👍

Nice idea, great vid.

Thanks for your ideas

only thing is the razor could be traded for a swiss army knife. giving you more items with one knife. and depending on the model you coose to go with it could be added with the razor

Pretty cool 😎. I’d probably trade the whistle toothpicks and mirror for some medicine but different strokes. I need to get those individual water purification tabs. Great video

Nice mini kit

Good stuff!!! Thanks

Great video

That is really cool 😎

Nice kit! Sould glue the compass on the outside of the lid. Just an idea on how to save space

nice kit.yeah is very very good

I would glue thr compass on top of the lid. You can use the fishing line as dental floss or pick your teeth with the fidh hooks or safety pin so the flossers are unnecesary. A plastic dog poo bag takes up the space of a soda straw and has many uses including water collection and purification. The water tablets can be individually wrapped in tin foil to save space. I would include a few baby aspirin, too. Instead of that giant knife, I would put a couple of exacto blades (you can use fishing line or filament to tie it to a stick to make a handle) and use the extra space to add a tube of alcohol or acetone (important to getting a fire started in damp conditions) and I would glue the striker for the matches onto the bottom or side of the bottle and include a coil of fine floral wire.

I find room for a couple twist ties they fit anywhere and get used a lot

Very clever!

IT was pretty good. 👍

one of those grimworkshop micro tools would fit perfectly inside. maybe the file or the saw, the capability of creating is worth a lot

Pretty good ideas 💡 👌 THANKS

Not bad bro good ideas

These little kits are fun to put together

I like this idea. I'm always over helping my mom at her place about half a mile from home, and I will break a fingernail, get a splinter, or cut myself and I often have to go home to get a magnifying glass, good pair of tweezers and a splinter remover or neosporin. I kinda keep a lot of that stuff in my man-bag, but I frequently don't take it with me that short a distance.

Cool!!

I like this better than the altoids tin. These kits are fun to make. Probably more fun to make than practical.

the straw tube thing is a cooool technicique I am on the go alot and i might use that to make some portable tubes

Great stuff. I don't like to use pill bottles as they don't seal well enough. I tested it by putting in weights and put them in a pot of water and it didn't seal using the lid both ways. Thanks, dude.

ive been watching your channel fir a while i didnt know you live in michigan i do aswell thats funny alot of youtubers arnt from here

Hi from WV 😊 love ur videos 💓

Small ferro rod and a few Imodium… stomach issues will take toy out. Stress, dietary changes, questionable water…. Imodium for the win!

Great video, Ben. I actually want to do a dedicated fishing pill bottle kit. Maybe you would want to do this next, & give me some ideas lol.

Great idea... you can improve it in space by gluing the compass on the top of cap and wrapping the hooks on outside under line, and my want add a small zip lock bag to drink water and same aluminum foil on inside. I did one similar to yours without the mirror and clip. My bottle that I used was a bet longer I added the electrical tape on the side upper of bottle. Great tip.

Primer like,saludos desde México buen video

Do you have a video showing how to put the string on the bottle, how you wrapped it?

All American Prepper may have Sonething to say about this... The kevlar line is something ive been meaning to get, mezilch (youtuber) will like this

Wrap bottle in just twine tinder and cordage, a little tape can ga around it as well. Compressed tinder quicks instead of cotton ball. Magnifying lens for splinters and fire.

I'd add a small magnifying glass like you can get in an eyeglass repair kit, and a couple eyeglass screws. Also, a couple bandaids

Holy crap that's funny. I did this with a large Tylenol bottle. Great video. Your's have a lot of cooler stuff though.

Great idea! For a container you can use a bag from the produce section of most grocery stores. The .youtube channel MeZilch gave me the idea. You can actually roll them up an put them in a larger straw. You can then use the bag and straw to create a drinking device. I would be interested in knowing how you affixed the string around the bottle so it did not roll off.

that was good

I’m thinking about doing that

I like it. I'm looking at kit to carry on my PFD for river trips so water proof is a requirement

I'm not big on the tiny kits...myself I like kits made from water bottles...can fit all the essentials..don't have to skimp so much...a pill bottle...I might make a fishing kit...or a small fire kit...but cool little kit none the less..

Great! One exception- a cotton ball's fibers would stick into a wound. Not a good thing. some non stick gauze would be better, which also could be used for other things.🙂

I've actually done this before😎

the nelsporn cream also can be used to start fires

Love it I have. Made an aloud but like. Will post my. Pill bottle survival kit its. More. Convinient it stys in place. It doesn't. Rattle. Like. The altoids but it stays good video for. Thank. You

Cool

I'd throw in a jolly rancher 😋

Mirror was a good idea.

I have also done this I still need to add things I didn't have such as the kevelar line and weather proof matches

sweet blade where did you find that ?

You can take five or so bottles fill with goodies and put in p.v.c.pipe for cane,just ideas

Great video, Ben. Love this - Is there any way you could get a very thin bag in there for water or a bit of foil?

Don't know if it would fit but they say a condom holds a great deal of water (non-treated of course)

Where can you get a whistle like cabelas or something?

Great idea to glue the mirror in the cap. What glue did you find works best? Put a cover on the fishing hooks please, please 🙏

now for the challenge. Can you do an over-nighter using just that kit?

One thing I like about this vs the tins is you don’t have to unwind the line to open the kit.