11) I’m making a list, and checking it… obsessively.


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    Addendum:


    So yeah, forgot the little black triple AAA battery LED flashlight that goes in the bed bag, and in my pocket when I''m awake. Its light is a little wan, but it doesn''t have a bulb to burn out.


    Is Wan too obscure of a word to use nowadays? It means pale and weak and it seems to describe the sort of blueish light LEDs give out exactly. At least in comparison to someone who grew up with the yellowish light you get from incandescent bulbs.


    So atsmemum, made some suggestions in the comments that made me realize that everything I packed is either short term stuff, to keep me alive for the first day or so, or long term, to help me thrive in a new world.


    What I’m a little short is stuff to keep me alive in the middle of nowhere for what might be weeks, months, or years.


    So:


    1) Two plastic pickle buckets with snap on lids for carrying stuff including water.


    2) On order, a stainless steel mess kit with a frying pan with a fold out handle, a deep sided plate the same size, a pot with a handle and a lid, and a plastic cup.


    I plan to replace the cup with something metal and will add a few carabiners to hold the pot above a fire and I''m sure there will be other uses for them.


    Might as well add a scrubber pad and a small bottle of dish soap as well.


    3) A coil of cotton string, and two fifty foot long coils of nylon rope.


    4) An axe head. No handle, I can attach something to it later on.


    5) A folding camp shovel with a pick on the back of the shovel head.


    6) A one-pound box of one and five eights inch drywall nails.


    At this point, the Oh Shit bag is about at the limit of what I can haul in and out of my car''s trunk let alone haul around in a wilderness. So adding anything else means something else has to come out.