Preparedness For Life

Altoids Tin Type Mini Survival Kit

Having a few small resources that are difficult to reproduce in the wild can make a big difference in your ability to survive a wilderness survival situation.  Take a look at the video below to see my mini survival kit.  Mini survival kits are a personalized thing and you should certainly put items in your own mini survival kit that will be most useful to you based on your own skill set.  I believe most of the items I put in my kit cover the basics of what can be covered in such a small kit, but that is certainly up for debate.  Knowledge and attitude are by far the most important things to have in a survival situation, but having a few of these extra items like those in my mini survival kit can certainly help out as well.

Mini Survival Kit Contents List

Metal Altoids type tin

3 1/4″ x 5/16″ ferro rod

3″ section of hacksaw blade

CRKT Ritter RSK MK5 Knife

15 feet of snare wire

2 hanks of 7 feet each of 115 lbs test bank line

Small button compass

Zip lock bag

4 Zippo waxed cotton fire starters

1 Chicken bullion cube

2 Packets of antibiotic ointment cream

2 Two by two inch gauze pads

1 Knuckle bandage

1 Butterfly bandage

2 Regular band-aids

Click here to watch the video on YouTube if you don’t have Flash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMR9ga8JGRw&feature=plcp

Click here to see another post I did on building a cheap personal survival kit from items commonly found at your local department store for under $50.00.  http://www.realitysurvival.com/wal-mart-survival-kit/

What items not listed above would you recommend putting into a mini survival kit like this one?

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