Is it important to have a survival gear list ?

Here is an interesting question: Is it important to have a survival gear list when thinking about emergency survival ? Anything in life, if done methodically can have a bigger success. It’s the same with the survival tools. Having a well done survival gear list will ensure you have everything you need inside your pack during a disaster. Spend as much time as you need to think of the items that will fit best in your survival gear and put them on the list. You shouldn’t get more in your survival pack than what you can actually carry. But at the same time, be prepaired !

So what would a good survival gear list contain ? Your list should be designed to protect you form the disasters that are most likely to strike close to you, or the ones that could damage you and your family in any way. So when near a volcano, prepaire for a volcanic eruption first. Other than that, the survival gear list should contain the following essentials, before anything else:

• Food and water supplies that have a long shelf life and will be enough to keep all of your family members fed for three days or more;
• A first aid kit, containing bandages, pills for all kinds of pain, disinfectant and anything else that could ensure your health during a disaster;
• Tools to make a shelter, defend yourself, hunt if needed and cook your food;
• Lighting and fire starting items, to signal your position in case help is coming, keep warm and so on;
• Clean clothing and shoes;
• personal items (clean is healthy);
• Entertainment items, to make the time pass faster.

When doing your survival gear list, make it in the checklist style and always mark the items that you already got. Also, talk to a specialist when making your gear list. Make a list with his help, compaire the lists and see what items are missing from any of the lists.

Always update your checklist with new items that you think will fit best in your survival gear pack. Browse the internet and any other media for information about the best survival kit. Periodically check your survival pack to see if the food and water is still ok to consume. Don’t forget to taste the food and water that you are planing to keep in your survival gear kit and make sure you and your loved ones like the taste.

Don’t stack a lot of tools that do the same thing, always look for devices that perform a lot of tasks, are light and easy to use. Stack yourself with batteries and any other items that are perishable. Go throught the survival gear checklist at least two times, to check that you’ve bought everything you’ll need and don’t forget to show your loved ones how every tool in the kit works, where is its place in the pack and so on.

And as a final advice, the survival gear list can wait. Even though you need to know that your loved ones will be safe in case of a disaster, don’t neglect the present, to think about the future and try spending time with your family first, and then prepaire for a disaster that could never happen.

Is it important to have a survival gear list ?