{"id":36456,"date":"2018-08-05T07:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T12:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36456"},"modified":"2018-08-05T07:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T12:58:36","slug":"5-things-you-never-thought-you-needed-in-your-prepper-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36456","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Never Thought You Needed In Your Prepper Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 Things You Never Thought You Needed In Your Prepper Gear<\/a><\/h3>\n

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<\/center>Preparing for the worst is often looked down upon by those who don\u2019t think there\u2019s any reason to prepare for even a natural disaster by storing a bit of extra food.\u00a0 But when you live in an area where even major blizzards are possible in winter, thoughts often go to the most obscure items and their potential use.\u00a0 Here, we will list five things you may or may not have thought to add to prepping supply or gear and some possible uses.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 But once you see the things we\u2019ve come up with, we are confident you could think of even more ways to use these valuable items!<\/p>\n

1.A PENCIL SHARPENER<\/strong><\/p>\n

A pencil sharpener<\/a> is small and light, but that\u2019s only one reason to toss it in your bug out bag or put it in your bunker or food storage room.\u00a0 You could even save a few pencils if you so desire.\u00a0 But a pencil sharpener could be an invaluable tool to help you make kindling.\u00a0 You would simply use the pencil sharpener to sharpen a pencil <\/a>(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.<\/p>\n

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5 Things You Never Thought You Needed In Your Prepper Gear Preparing for the worst is often looked down upon by those who don\u2019t think there\u2019s any reason to prepare for even a natural disaster by storing a bit of extra food.\u00a0 But when you live in an area where even major blizzards are possible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4018,4019,648,650,6787,20441],"class_list":["post-36456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-emergencies","tag-emergency-planning","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-sara-tipton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36457,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36456\/revisions\/36457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}