5 Things You Never Thought You Needed In Your Prepper Gear
While food, water, and ammunition seem like the obvious items to hoard and store safely for a SHTF scenario, these five items could also help, even though it may not have been considered before now. But once you see the things we’ve come up with, we are confident you could think of even more ways to use these valuable items!
1.A PENCIL SHARPENER
A pencil sharpener is small and light, but that’s only one reason to toss it in your bug out bag or put it in your bunker or food storage room. You could even save a few pencils if you so desire. But a pencil sharpener could be an invaluable tool to help you make kindling. You would simply use the pencil sharpener to sharpen a pencil (or a twig) and get kindling to help you start a fire. Most preppers carry a lighter but stop short at thinking they could need kindling to help get a fire going. Obviously, you can shave down wood into tinder using a great knife (if you have one handy) or you might be able to find some small twigs, but nothing you can carry can make kindling quite as easily and more safely as a pencil sharpener.
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