Have you considered buying or constructing your own survival bag? The easiest way to get started is to purchase a complete bag, but this might seem too expensive. The second option is to construct your own, using existing household items.
The cost to create a kit or bag can seem much like insurance. You spend money periodically to maintain a level of protection. If you never have an accident, or in this case a disaster, you get nothing for the money you spent. This is not true for survival supplies since they do retain value, even after an extended period.
Consider the cost of a single person survival bag. It contains food bars, packaged water, heat sources, personal shelter, fire starters, basic communication items, multiple light sources, basic first aid & hygiene with a few additional tools. This is all packaged into a storage bag or bckpack. The average cost is sixty dollars per bag.
Of the items that are in your survival bag, only a few need to be periodically replaced after a few years to retain their future usefulness. The food and water, fire starters, batteries and some of the first aid items will need to be replaced at a cost of approximately twenty dollars. This cost is pretty low to “refresh” your kit. Remember, before you trash these items, most of these can now be used in daily life. This reuse helps recover some of the initial or replacement cost.
Now this is just an example of a very basic survival bag and the related cost, but the same would hold true on larger, more detailed survival bags. The key to reducing and recovering some of the initial cost is to replace the items before they become unusable. Many of the items that require rotation will have a date printed on them to help you keep up with this task.
No matter if you purchase a survival bag or create your own, you should start collecting your preparedness supplies today.
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