NAro,

I can see your point...but in my mind, different situations calls for different needs. I keep thinking about a fire in your home which puts you out (for a few nights or for good). In reality, if a fire occurs in my home and I get out...I'm going to need things like extra clothes, toiletry items, money, etc. I'd also want things like insurance policies, inventory items, ect. Things like flint and snares probally aren't going to help me much as I would be staying with realitives. Now if it's a SHTF scenerio (something that affects the entire community, county, state or country) then the flint and snares would be pretty handy and the insurance info and paper money (possibly) would only be good tender.

In something like a house fire...you may only have seconds to get out and you'll be lucky to have anything in hand. What I would want with me after a fire or flood would differ greatly from what I would want with me if Russian troops started falling from the sky <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />