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I keep a 5 gallon bucket of water in the bath tube. Wash and renew frequently, water the garden with it, so does not get dumped down the drain. Comes in handy if electricity or well not working. Obviously not enough, but have water stashed all over.

Just watched your bug out dhoes video. Id kike to see your take on a survival coat or vest video

Not a bad idea. I would have added more plus road snacks.

Good information. I have three *kits* I bet I could bring it down to one! Thanks -

I do extra medications that way, individually food saved, to help preserve the efficacy of the meds. We don’t use some of them often but do need them at times. I cut the plastic to make small bags to eliminate waste. I hadn’t thought of doing other things like first aid!

My girls use reusable feminine pads that I sewed for them. The outer layer is flannel. The inner layer is zorb fabric which can hold 15x its weight in liquid. They can go right in the wash and they come out stain free. The girls say they are much more comfortable than standard pads.

Another tip associated with shoes by the bed - always leave a pair of pants in a chair or hanging over your foot board with your KEYS and WALLET in the pants, so all you have to do is put on the pants, shoes and a shirt and go. No fumbling around in a panic trying to find your keys and wallet.

Awesome video bro great idea I'm subbing!

OK - one more idea cause I just can't stop. Arrange all the stuff you finally decide on in your shoes, then take it all out and arrange it on the table as if it were in your shoe. Grab a plastic shopping bag (or a double bag for strength) and slide the stuff for one shoe into the plastic bag. This should make it fairly easy to slide the bag and contents into the shoe and then you can tie off the bag. On the flip side, the bag should make it easy to pull all the stuff out of the shoe quickly, plus you have it all in a bag for easy carrying in the event you do not have pockets or another more permanent bag. Do the same for the other shoe. Slide each shoe into its rubber booty cover. Then vacuum seal. The plastic bags can also be used for emergency rain headgear or even over your hands like rain mittens. Or you can make a small slit for each finger to poke through and your palms will stay dry, even though your fingers will not. These uses would also help with heat retention, if needed. A bag without a puncture could conceivably carry or store water, although actual performance would be far from ideal. I saw a video about the homeless recently and one of their strategies for insulation in cold weather is to stuff their clothes with plastic shopping bags, which they say works even better than crumpled newspaper (which is no longer as readily available as in the past). If you double bagged the contents of each shoe, that would be 4 bags to use for insulation, which would not be much, but if you were combining the shoes into a larger kit in which you also were storing items in double bags, you might be able to carry enough to insulate your upper body and/or arms at virtually no increase in weight or space to each sub-kit.

I am still thinking about this idea and love the comments you are getting on the video. Couple of more enhancement ideas: 1. Latex Rain Boots Waterproof Shoe Covers - Temu is selling pairs of these for as low as $2. Basically, they are a rubber overshoe you can pull over whatever shoes you are wearing to keep your feet dry in wet conditions. For this case use, you could put all your stuff into the shoes, then put the shoes into the rubber overshoes, then vacuum seal. When the time comes to use the shoes, if it is not wet, remove the overshoe, but if it is wet, you are good to go. 2. A bag to store the stuff from the shoes - Rather than add an actual bag which would be outside the shoes, I would use a bandana which you can form into a bag and tie to your belt in the event you do not have any pockets. If there is a fear you will not have a belt or belt loop to tie to, carry cordage which will wrap around your waist. This will allow you to keep all supplies within the shoe for minimal storage space while not in use. If you really want a bag, I would store the sealed shoes in your preferred bag in the car. This would allow you to store a few other items in with the shoes, still provide the on-the-go storage solution, and provide a "home" inside the vehicle for the shoes and supplies to live. 3. For additional supplies, add a pair of cargo pants, put stuff in the pockets, vacuum seal, store in the bag with the sealed shoes. My suggestions for the pant's contents would be a full rain suit which you can purchase for less than $20 in most cases. I think if you roll the jacket and the pants separately and tightly, secure with girly hairbands you can get in packs at the dollar store, you can fit both into a single cargo pocket. This gives you not only rain protection, but a fairly decent extra layer for warmth. It also allows you to use your emergency blanket and poncho for shelter, if needed. Stuff a cheap beanie hat into another pocket to keep your head warm. As you said, everyone needs to tailor these kits to their own needs. My personal philosophy is each kit should supply you with options to allow you the most choices when the emergency arrives, so they should probably include items for all the types of weather you may encounter, then you ditch what you don't need when the actual emergency arises.

Came on, unless you are brain damage or you have never travel, every body knows to put your socks and/or others items inside your shoes

What a waste of time!

In the event you would have to use your shoes in a survival/emergency situation, you would need something to carry all that gear in you placed in your shoes. How about adding a small waist pack on top of the shoes prior to sealing? That way you have a “container” to carry your survival gear in. Just a thought! Great video! Thanks!

nice idea. add some cash also.

This is such a genius idea! I'm going to see how much I can fit into my shoes! Thanks for sharing!

Man, you are on a roll. As I watched this, my mind drifted to the two wheel crowd. A huge percentage of the population in the Philippines depend on their motorbikes for daily transportation. Many are in the 125 cc to 155 cc class. Some new models have a liquid cooled engine, and CVT transmission.The trunk space under the seat is impressive. These bikes will exceed all speed limits on the Philippine highway system but are still excluded from the NLEX system because they are under 400cc. Being forced to always ride off the main highway system exposes the rider to many additional road hazards. A kit built for the tropical conditions in the Philippines would benefit thousands of Filipinos. This will be a MUST SHARE! I will send this first to my friend from Belgium. He is planning an excursion 400 klicks from home base in the near future. His machine is nearly new (just nicely broke in) with superior maintenance. Nevertheless, he should be ready for rough road conditions in some spots. Even now, my friend is collecting extra emergency gear in case of need during his trip. He and I both agree, "it is better to have and not need than to need and not have."

I appreciate you using my idea! I love the way you ran with the idea and used your hiking experience to improve my initial proposal. Watching you turn this idea into a sealed bag of shoes gave me some more thoughts, but these are just extrapolations on the important stuff you have already included. If you roll the socks tightly, I think you could squeeze some more items into the first shoe. You might consider adding a 99 cent pair of one-size-fits-all knit gloves, just in case it is cold and especially if you had to sleep in cool conditions overnight on the hike home. A small vacuum sealed first aid kit mainly consisting of one-use packet antibacterial stuff for cleaning wounds or blisters. The leukotape you already included would double as bandages all wounds including blisters. If your packets include iodine, that would be a back up water treatment. A pair of extra shoelaces would double as decent cordage allowing you to turn the emergency blanket or poncho into a shelter. A stick of beef jerky would be totally unnecessary, but tasty. If you could fold and store a bandana in the bottom of each shoe, in the event of cold weather, you could tie your pant legs shut around your ankles to prevent the dreaded sock to pant's end gap and to keep your body heat from escaping. In warm weather, they are good sweat wipers, headbands, wrist bands, etc. A vacuum sealed 3 day hygiene pack would also be handy. Maybe throw in a pack of matches. To meet all 5 C's of survival, include a razor blade, box cutter, or pocket knife and you have Cover, Cordage, Containers, Combustion, and Cutting. From a purely CZcams perspective, being able to advertise The 5C Shoes might pull in more prepper, survivalist, and camping eyeballs. Again, I appreciate you reading my comments, responding, running with the ideas, and crediting me within the video! It has been great fun tot both watch and participate!

Great idea! I keep everything in ziplock bags. In case of flooding or a leak in a pipe at least our closet items will be dry. Everything is an a ziplock baggie: toothpaste, bandages, shampoos, etc.

Nice informative video.

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What if you took this a step further? I assume you add some favorite spices when you cook the rice. Could you add the spices to the bowl of rice and mix before you bag it, then when you go to cook it, you don't have to worry if you have your spices available? Another example would be cornbread. I love cornbread, but you do have to add milk and eggs. For prepping purposes, could you add powdered milk and powdered eggs (you will need to note the amount of water you need to add for both) and then vacuum seal it all together so that in the event of an emergency, you could cook cornbread without worrying about milk and eggs which might have gone bad in your fridge if the power is out? You could also do this with flour for a regular bread recipe or a cake mix or even pudding. I am also wondering if you vacuum seal any pasta? I am enjoying your videos. Thank you for sharing them.

I have a few other ideas for vacuum storage which I have never seen anyone else do. I have an issue with excessive humidity which dry rots a lot of stuff, especially athletic shoes and paper. I almost never use a paper map anymore due to GPS, but I still keep several in my vehicle just in case of GPS issues (in my opinion, tech never works when you need it most). I also like to keep some emergency supplies, but even in my closet inside the house, stuff dry rots after a few years. Maps - Could you vacuum seal several paper maps into a single flat pouch for storage in your car? This would not only preserve them, but keep them all together for the time they are needed. Shoes - Could you vacuum seal a pair of athletic shoes for storage in your car in the event you need to walk away from your broken down vehicle but are not wearing the proper footwear? Based on the size of the bagging material I saw in this video, I think you could seal up one shoe per bag. If you stuffed each shoe with a pair of socks (you need a backup pair in case the first get wet during your on foot travels), some moleskin for blister treatment, and maybe an emergency poncho in one shoe and an emergency silver survival blanket in the other, I think you would have a pretty neat emergency walking kit. If you set up a pair for each of you, you could store it in the car in a small over the shoulder bag with a few other items, like a vacuum sealed flashlight and batteries, a couple of vacuum sealed nylon jackets or even full rain suits, and maybe some food items which would not be drastically affected by change in temperatures which occur to anything stored in a vehicle. This would allow you to quickly grab the bag and go in the event you needed to abandon your vehicle quickly, yet still have the personal wearables of comfortable travel and shelter. Nylon bivouac or hammock - There are a lot of fairly small bag stuffable nylon emergency or even multiple use shelters. They tend to be about the size of a small neck pillow when stuffed into their storage bags. I have never seen anyone try to vacuum seal one of these, but I bet they would get pretty small if you could squeeze all the air out of them. Maybe small enough to slip into a winter or fall coat/jacket pocket or cargo pants or a survival vest, all of which you could keep in your car shoe bag. The stuffed bag for most of them looks small enough to fit into your vacuum bagging system. Blankets - I like to keep a blanket or two in my car just in case, but they always end up in the way, under other stuff, getting dirty, and sometimes getting wet in rainy conditions. Obviously, you cannot vacuum seal blankets with your food sealer, but your video has sparked the idea maybe I should get some clothes vacuum bags that you use with your home vacuum and pack up my car blankets that way.

For long term prep storage, I think you may want to pack kits by time period rather than similarity of items. For instance, in the event you need to open your toothcare kit, once you break the vacuum seal, you have two tubes of paste immediately aging outside of the vacuum seal when you really only need one. It might be better to pack one tube of paste with two toothbrushes (one for each of you), a pack of floss, a small bottle of mouthwash, a comb (it is an emergency use prep, so maybe all your daily use hygiene products have been compromised or lost), a bar or bottle of soap (careful as this may be extra temperature sensitive), a bottle of shampoo, other girly hair and body products, a man's razor, a woman's razor, some wet wipe packets, toilet paper (you can take some off a roll and fold it flat), some band-aids, single packed medications, pain relievers, etc., and maybe even a couple of washcloths. Depending on the size of the product, this could be anywhere from a 3 day to a week to a month of prep for these items. If you could prep a month's worth per bag, then with 12 bags which will probably fit into a medium sized Amazon box, you have a year's prepped hygiene supplies. By opening only one bag at a time, the rest of the year's prep stays as fresh as possible. You may also want to pack some items into resealable ziplock bags, then store in the vacuum seal bags so that once you break the vacuum seal, you can still close the product into a sealed bag for transport and storage without searching for a ziplock bag which may not be available to you in an emergency situation. I have never used a vacuum sealer, so if a sealing stuff in a zip bag first creates issues, maybe you could just store one empty and folded into the vacuum bag for use when you finally do break the vacuum seal.

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Vacuum-sealing is a great solution ... it protects your items and keeps like with like

Second of your videos I have watched. I like the "vibe" and I am thinking the younger members of my family will find encouragement from what you present. I stated on my first post that we in the Philippines are blessed with an abundance of water. Treatment is mandatory before consumption! Now, this very night after finishing laundry, I went to fill a small bucket and the water flowed out nearly black with a slight hint of purple. That was around 2:30 AM. As I type, 4:45 AM and as we wait for the water to clear in our "high end" sub division I will share a little of what we do for water prep. Do not worry, the management company claims they are "working on it." Many Philippine homes included a "dirty kitchen," an outside covered area where food preparation and cooking is done to help keep inside the home tidy and odor free. There is a lot of storage in the dirty kitchen, outside our home. For everyday use, I ordered twenty (20) five (5) gallon round water jugs of drinking of water along with a good number of blue rectangular jugs with dispenser taps. The plan is, as soon as five (5) round jugs are empty together with whatever number of rectangular blue jugs are empty, more water is immediately ordered. We keep five (5) of our round jugs and a good number of our retangular jugs at the refilling station. They fill, deliver and pick up the empties, usually the following day after we call. We have more than enough drinking water in reserve to last for weeks in the event of localized flooding during a typhoon and deliveries to many location are interrupted. For domestic water, we have been collecting and filling food grade 55 gallon barrels. We also found a source of empty shortening containers from bake shops that are plentiful and cheap. They make fantastic trash barrels and since they are also food grade plastic, we have water storage galore both inside and outside our hacienda. This bulk water storage can be treated for drinking, if ever our delivered water becomes unavailable. We have scoped out available water sources in and around our subdivision, just in case! Now, off the whack the subscribe button.

Old geezer EX-pat from the Philippines checking in. Due to our high humidity tropical climate, we battle rust on a constant basis. Some tools that see regular use like my KABAR need protection but vacuum sealing is a no-go. After touching up the blade, I give it a wipe with vaseline witch is relatively food safe. I picked a model with synthetic grip and sheath rather than the stacked leather grip and leather sheath, again, because we live in the tropics. Gear that may see regular use, we generally pack in gasketed plastic containers with a moisture absorber. Beautiful Bride attempts to find containers that will offer some view of what is inside each container in the event the label falls off. Some items that may be changed out occasionally, we pack tightly in the best quality resealable plastic bags available.The reason for this is additional water storage. We have an abundance of water in the Philippines. However, without treatment, you should not consider consuming this water. You can never have enough water storage in a bad event. For longer term storage, YES, vacuum sealing is a great option.

More water stories. I worked outback. When I moved there, my neighbour took me to see the waterworks. This was desert country and we were in a bad drought on top of everything else. So the creek river (small source) was way low, making it difficult for animals to get do the water. There were dead kangaroo floating in our ‘drinking water. My neighbours response to my pointing out the obvious was “don’t worry. They put enough chemicals in the water to kill anything,” I only used bottled water, even for showering because I would get rashes if I used the tap water. Then I got a Berkey. Still have it to this day.

Anyway, water is the topic. Roadworks cut the line that brought the water up the mountain. I had nothing in reserve except for what a person would normally have. It was a 3day repair job at least. By the time I got to the grocery store water was gone and so were most other drinks. Luckily the school that I worked in was given a priority so I had water during the day. I just made sure to fill up my bottle (only one because we were all in the same boat) and it would be enough to get through the night.

I can identify with your fire experience. When I lived in the Blue Mountains, we got to the be ready stage (like you). My car was packed full for weeks ( fire threats don’t end just because it is ok to return home, I.e. root fires can start the whole thing over again instantly). Schools shut, only essential business were open, and we had to lodge our destination information. The fire and police came door knocking to see who was left, were we packed and where I was going. I was the only one left within a two block radius because a friend said not to worry and hotels/ motels were booked out for over 100ks.

What about those hybrid cars that run off of electricity. Can you tell us about them please? What to expect from them? What happens if caught in a traffic jam like you two were during the fires?

Looks good and I like the idea of fresh to start with. Can you tell me more about the Spanish rice? My mother made it when I was so young that I never learned. So far I have not found any receipt (old fashion word) that does the job. Ta (thanks).

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The cig lighter runs my portable dvd player and charges my unit when I am driving

Thank you for sharing. you talked about thing that I had not thought about and are doable without spending heaps of money It also sounds that the recommended 3day prep is not enough, something I have been thinking about. Can you talk more about this and what you would actually bring? It may be different if joining other people.

Really liked this method! Many of the items you sealed up are things that often leak (and make big mess), but this will not happen when they are sealed up,, or at least the leaks will be contained! Thanks.

BAG BALM ointment since 1899 about $6-$8 for 10 Ounces which is alot--GET YOURSELVES SOME, a 3" H by 3"W Green Container with small old fashioned design on it--MY EXPERIENCE as an OINTMENT it works BETTER & FASTER than Neosporin etc. plus it is TRULY COST EFFECTIVE, you won't regret having this in your kit. An Old Time Farmer Household Necessity. I've found it at wal-mart in both health & beauty aid section and pet section, some drug stores and in pet stores. It was used by farmers as a wound healer on cows utters, it worked so well farmers used it on their own cuts and scrapes. I personally refuse to use anything else as per what my specialist wound care Dr. said to me WHATEVER YOUR USING KEEP USING IT, IT IS WORKING PERFECTLY AND NO INFECTION. It has and looks kinda like a darker color vaseline. I had a huge cysts/boil type wound pop out of my upper-back that had drained 3 cores and oozed nasty poison for 3 weeks soaking an ABD Pad daily, I used BAG BALM ONLY. This HOLE in my back was the SIZE of a 50 CENT PIECE 1/4 inch deep with another Hole dead center of the 50 cent hole perfectly the size of a pencil that went directly into my body (a canal so to speak). This thing formed overnight and stuck out of my back about 2 1/2" like a volcano and deep purplish red with so much pressure. This formed because of a mastoid obliteration wound surgery of the EAR I'd had 30+ years prior, the poisons made its own path to get out of my body. Yes it was disgusting yet it was good to get that junk out and no other health problems followed as easily this now OPEN WOUND could have become infected from the outside in--IT DIDN'T because I used BAG BALM. Unfortunately I couldn't get in to seeing my Dr. for 3 weeks, the day I did the wound had just began a thin layer of replacement skin over the holes, there was no redness/soreness ONLY HEALING and just like that it was gone, however it did leave a scar but very light in its invisibility (hardly noticeable), Sincerely a granny.

Maybe wipe and dry then seal. Id ask about vinegar water ling term affects for food grade ..or rusting. But seriously not to hold germs for months or yrs.

I had some emergency GMRS radios that I kept in my car and after several years of changing temperatures and humidity, they finally quit working. I replaced them with new radios which I vacuum-packed to keep the humidity from affecting them. Hopefully, this will keep them from dying on me the way the first set did.

Yes stock up . Stock what you eat and rotate. One is none and two is one. That’s what I learned

Your channel popped up and I subscribed. Also, I prep to survive also. I like to see what I have. My prepping got us thru Covid pandemic and when we had Covid twice. We didn't need anything.

Very Informative videos. I love them.😍😍❤❤👌👌

Thank you. IO keep vacuum sealed kits in my backpack for hiking. Personally, I bought a first-aid kit, took everything out of the original pack, added a few things that I thought was needed. Vacuum sealed it all together and put it in my backpack for when we go hiking or wherever. Yesterday, my daughter and I went white water rafting for the first time with a group of people and guides. We got soaking wet and so did our gear. The contents in my pack were completely dry, thanks to vacuum sealing. I have our main first-aid kit that stays in the RV bundled in one kit, our emergency hygiene is bundled in one kit. I like your idea better by breaking it down into smaller kits. More organized and no need to break open a large kit for one or two items when a smaller kit can be resealed later. And if the open smaller kit does not survive before getting back, the whole kit wouldn't be ruined. Tonight, we will separate and make smaller kits.

Weirdly enough i hsve a failing fuel pump and it burns more gas when over a half tank

There are times I had dirt to grow a potato but, I can't wait around for a garden mature, If I sit too long, I feel as if I'm decomposing. I have to move on. 14 days is my usual time limit for a stay.

As a full time RVer as you know. I always fill my tank just before I stop for a couple days.

I have the same generator, but without the bluetooth. I converted mine to tri-fuel using the MSK7000 kit and now I use natural gas. You can see it running at various loads on my channel. The EU7000is a great generator.

I always fill up when I'm only a 1/4 tank low.