Preparedness for when

jk0

Honestly, I would create your own.

I need a first aid kit to treat myself occasionally when doing DIY. Mostly I need easy to open plasters, and steristrips.

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jk0 wrote: »

Honestly, I would create your own.

I purchased a basic kit, then added to it, to suit my requirements.

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

It rather depends on what you want it for (BOB, camping, vehicle or home use), how many you are likely to need to treat (do you live alone, or have a large family?), the type of injuries you anticipate treating, your level of 1st Aid skill, and of course, the depth of your wallet.

I think that the purposes will be BOB, camping, travel and home use. I could also modify them for car if necessary but I think that your other idea is close to my plans. If I buy one for each task and then add to them. I already have started one at home so could cannibalise that for any extra components to complete each of them. The red bags are very handy to identify them so I will see if getting the bags alone are a better option. Though considering the fact that each will have quite a few items already it might be the far better option, especially as they look pricey on eBay. Thanks for the comments.

Perplexed_Pineapple

The Adventurer kit looks pretty useful. As above it depends what you plan on using it for. For a home kit I'm acquiring as much kit as I can - space isn't such an issue (well it is but this is a priority item) and if there is some sort of major event which causes multiple injuries you can never have enough basic dressings and bandages. The limitation of most pre-packed kits is that they only have one of everything - there is a prepping saying that I've come across on other sites that "two is one and one is none" or something like that - it certainly goes for first aid supplies IMO. I'd also stock up on rubber gloves to protect yourself. For a kit you are going to carry with you on foot you are limited in what you can carry and one of the pre-packed kits would do very well with maybe a few tweaks like some anti-histamine cream for insect bites and those padded plasters you can get to put on blisters (anyone who keeps a pair of hiking boots for bugging out and doesn't wear them in or use regularly is going to get blisters if they ever have to use them). By far and away the most important thing is some sort of training; I've done rather a lot in one way or another over the years and it's amazing what you can improvise with pretty basic kit if you know how.

nuatha

Frugalsod wrote: »

I am looking at first aid kits and would like some feedback on these please. Not sure of whether to get or to create my own from scratch.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000T9LRUY

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000R2FM86

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0015NMPVS

My preference is to make up from scratch.
I have a very simple kit as part of my Every Day Carry; scissors, tweezers are part of a multitool in my wallet alongside two sewing needles in sterile pack. Alcohol based gel hand sanitiser, a selection of plasters and small dressings and a triangular bandage. (There's also a small amount of thread and two buttons). I carry spare painkillers with my meds.
The car kit increases the quantities of the above, adds wound dressings, eye bath, pouches of sterile saline, gauze and crepe bandages and a box of latex gloves.
The BOB contains a cut down version of the car kit.
Like Perplexed Pineapple I haven't stinted on the house kit.
When I started down this route I found it was almost as cheap to buy a box of dressings or bandages as it was to buy two - some got split with friends, some just got added to the house kit once the other kits had as much as I thought was needed.
Training is important, you can improvise wound dressings, bandages and slings, but only if you've got a good idea what you're doing to start with.

jk0

Nothing to do with SHTF, but this evening I have been watching this fascinating lecture. I recommend it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe6DN1OoxjE

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I went up to London yesterday to meet DD1 and go to the British Museum for the Viking Exhibition that was showing there and as always I was absolutely blown away by the artefacts they had on display. This one had a picture of a Viking Longhouse that's been constructed at a living history museum in Denmark and what struck me was the levels of comfort and normalness that I could see in the photographs. There was an air of sophistication and levels of comfort there that would be comparable with our lives today although very different methods of achieving it. I've also visited the Butser Hill ancient history site here in Hampshire and sat in a reconstructed Roundhouse and had that same feeling of awe at what our ancestors achieved by way of home comforts and feeling of familiarity with what they had in thier daily lives. Prepping ought really to include visiting museums and living history museums and attending re-enactment events and going to stately homes to see what can actually be done with very little else but skills and knowledge. I'm always struck by the beauty of craftsmanship and the skills that are involved in objects from the past, and wonder at the sheer inventiveness that allowed our forebears to survive and rear the next generation. I'm certain that we as a species can adapt to whatever situation post SHTF we encounter by looking to the past for inspiration and not bemoaning the loss of our modern conveniences and ease of living. It won't be a picnic in the park but it might just be a survival feast in the future.

mardatha

I felt the same MrsL when I went to Gladstones Land in Edinburgh. They have a 16th cent room, a 17th cent room and an 18th cent one. I found the oldest one the best, with a gorgeous fireplace that did everything, and loads of gadgets like a 16th cent toastie maker, an oatcake maker, and loads of other state of the art stuff Plus the bed that pulled down out of the wall ... The whole room felt so comfortable that you wanted to sit down at the fire and take your shoes off lol

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The place in the world that I have felt the most empathy with MAR is a sunken stoneage roundhouse the remains of which are at Skarra Bray on mainland Orkney. It's a ruin that has emerged from the sand and been excavated but it's got a built in welsh dresser in one of the walls, little stone enclosures that they think were for bedding material and even what is thought to be a loo in one of the smaller chambers(no pun intended!) along with a stone lined tank that is thought to have been for fresh water storeage. I stood there and could see in my minds eye the stoneage housewife putting the fish up onto the highest shelf being watched by a small iron age hunting dog like my Dockling and saying 'Not yours!' just the way I do to him!!!

Charis

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'm always struck by the beauty of craftsmanship and the skills that are involved in objects from the past, and wonder at the sheer inventiveness that allowed our forebears to survive and rear the next generation. I'm certain that we as a species can adapt to whatever situation post SHTF we encounter by looking to the past for inspiration and not bemoaning the loss of our modern conveniences and ease of living. It won't be a picnic in the park but it might just be a survival feast in the future.

I feel the same when I drive through Malvern, Mrs L. Huge houses and big shops and banks on a steep hillside, all erected without the aid of computer calculations, modern day trucks or cranes. Most, if not all, of the stone and brick was brought up the hill on a horse drawn cart. This didn't stop them from building in a classic style, with attention to detail. They built things to last in those days. I like your idea of a 'survival feast', a community sharing.