WanstallsOnline
Expried Business Member
- Location
- Maple Ridge BC
With the recent Covid 19 situation we have on our hands, a lot has changed.
One thing that got me thinking was how ill prepared I was for an actual pandemic or disaster. Sure guns and ammo aren't an issue I have the typical 3-4 weeks of food set aside. But I had never thought about things like being on the move, water filtration, sleeping supplies for being on the move, signaling, compasses, tie downs, fire starter in our terrible west coast rain, IFAKS for myself, the wife and spares. etc etc...
This sent me down a rabbit hole of 72 hour bags, get home bags and in general being better prepared on a day to day basis. I seem to have found myself yet another hobby to add to my endless lists of things to do. This has also led me to start ordering stuff for the shop because hey, if 1 person wants it, 2-3 people more would likely be looking for it to.
One thing I noticed is the Canadian market although has a lot of stuff, it is spread out over multiple sites/ shops and everything (from at least my research) has to be sourced from multiple locations. Granted Amazon has a lot of stuff, but certain things like IFAKS or water filtration I was have a hard time purchasing due to the little info out there on some products or lack of knowledge on others. I didnt want to get stuck with off brand blood clot.
So my question is to you guys/gals, do you have a 72 hour bag? of a get home bag? What is in it? What was hard to find or put together? What do you wish you could've found north of the "wall". What brands do you like? What brands do you hate? What have you thought of your fellow preppers may not have? Also if it is stuff with enough demand, I will source it and start carrying it
Personally a complete IFAK was my biggest pain to find. A complete kit I have 0 intention of applying myself, but hope someone with the knowledge could use on me if required.
I would like to start compiling info here so Canadians have somewhere to read and because its in our forum, it will show up on google searches.
So post your supplies, pics, lists.... whatever you have.
Ill be throwing my stuff up tomorrow with lists and pics.
-Matt
One thing that got me thinking was how ill prepared I was for an actual pandemic or disaster. Sure guns and ammo aren't an issue I have the typical 3-4 weeks of food set aside. But I had never thought about things like being on the move, water filtration, sleeping supplies for being on the move, signaling, compasses, tie downs, fire starter in our terrible west coast rain, IFAKS for myself, the wife and spares. etc etc...
This sent me down a rabbit hole of 72 hour bags, get home bags and in general being better prepared on a day to day basis. I seem to have found myself yet another hobby to add to my endless lists of things to do. This has also led me to start ordering stuff for the shop because hey, if 1 person wants it, 2-3 people more would likely be looking for it to.
One thing I noticed is the Canadian market although has a lot of stuff, it is spread out over multiple sites/ shops and everything (from at least my research) has to be sourced from multiple locations. Granted Amazon has a lot of stuff, but certain things like IFAKS or water filtration I was have a hard time purchasing due to the little info out there on some products or lack of knowledge on others. I didnt want to get stuck with off brand blood clot.
So my question is to you guys/gals, do you have a 72 hour bag? of a get home bag? What is in it? What was hard to find or put together? What do you wish you could've found north of the "wall". What brands do you like? What brands do you hate? What have you thought of your fellow preppers may not have? Also if it is stuff with enough demand, I will source it and start carrying it
Personally a complete IFAK was my biggest pain to find. A complete kit I have 0 intention of applying myself, but hope someone with the knowledge could use on me if required.
I would like to start compiling info here so Canadians have somewhere to read and because its in our forum, it will show up on google searches.
So post your supplies, pics, lists.... whatever you have.
Ill be throwing my stuff up tomorrow with lists and pics.
-Matt