What survival items do you keep in your wallet. I am currently stcking my wallet up with a few compact items. I have 2 wind/waterproof matches and trimmed striker, a BCB tool, and a tiny recipricating saw blade. What do you have?

i got:
-swisscard tool
-2x platypatches
-2x safetypins
-2x paperclips
-P 38
-1L ziploc bag
-note paper
-accident evaluation report
and various cards and money

I always keep a few normal size band-aids (what you Brits call plasters, I believe) in my wallet. There is also backup currency folded up and tucked away. When normally dressed, a Leatherman tool, photon II, and SA Classic are elsewhere on my person. Other items, including a real FAK, are my pack or briefcase, whichever I am carrying for the day.

Aside from the usual cash and cards...
1 fresnel lens
1 fishing hook w/ leader
1 x-acto blade
1 paper clip
2 hair pins (have gotten me and a friend into his house when he forgot his keys)
1 list of contact info

My other EDC consists of a leatherman squirt, SOG autoclip, fox 40 whistle (cut down like Doug's), white photon II, a red photon I, FAK, bic lighter, and cell phone.

One condom (for water carrying).

1. Cash
2. Credit Card
3. Debit/ATM Card
4. Spare Checks
5. I.D. in the form of Driver's License
6. a small piece of paper, folded, with these words (periodically updated) printed on it:

IF I AM INJURED OR UNABLE TO DO IT,
PLEASE CONTACT THESE PEOPLE FOR ME:
^^^^^^
Heidi Berthiaume home 972-del-eted
(Girlfriend) work 214-del-eted

Bill/Brenda Entzminger 972-del-eted
(Father/Stepmom) work 972-del-eted

Sally Lou K Entzminger 972-del-eted
(Mother) work 972-del-eted

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CARING AND HELP!
(I fold the piece of paper here, so it's very small.)
IF I'M INJURED OR UNABLE TO SPEAK
MY PERSONAL INFORMATION IS BELOW:

James Thad Entzminger (J.T., Jim)
Birthdate 3/13/64 Blood Type A+
drug-free non-drinking non-smoker
no medical allergies & conditions

18625 deleted Rd., Apt.# deleted
Dallas TX 75287 USA Information
972-del-eted home updated on
214-del-eted cell 08/13/2002

Hmm... boy, that formatting sure is screwed up above. If I could use tables, I could straighten this out. For instance, the
"Information
updated on
08/13/2002"
is very much separate from my address and phone numbers, but the forum doesn't give me the ability to format it so you can tell. Oh, well, I'm sure you can all interpret it sufficiently. <img src="images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

That's it for the wallet. I used to carry a spare car key, but now I drive a Wrangler w/ zip-out windows, so there's no need. I have never carried a condom there, since sitting on them crushes and weakens them, encouraging breakage. All else I carry elsewhere on or about my person.

In addition to my cards and cash I carry a spare R$50 note tucked away, a phone card, single edged razor blade, and I have a small tablet of paper that rides inside the fold that functions as my memory. I also have a cut down pen refill in the fold so my memory never runs out of ink.

One thing I have started doing here in Brazil that I never did back in the States is to carry a magnetized razor blade in my shoe. It is under the insole held in place with a piece of duct tape.

This is kidnapping insurance. Estrangeiros like me get kidnapped and tied up often enough that if it happens to me I will have the means to cut my bonds. The magnetized blade also functions as a compass when suspended from a thread. Thus may help to orient me as I would have arrived blindfolded or in the trunk of a car.

It is a slim chance this would ever happen but then again it is a slim blade in my shoe that is no bother at all. Mac

1. Various credit cards- work as ID also
2. Cash money and £20 note separately (for emergency)
3. Button compass (helped many times when I was in an unknown town)
4. Victorinox classic knife
5. Photos (sometimes necessary)
6. Very small pen
7. receipts- use them as paper for writting also
8. Amulets
I am also thinking to put some lighter into my wallet, but cannot find anything slim, except matches, but I do not trust matches because once they are used you cannot use them again. Also, some string and something instead of condom to carry water- I am married and my wife will not understand why I am carrying a condom in my wallet. <img src="images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Ebakeev,

If you were a truly committed survivor, your wife would actually believe that the condom in your wallet is an emergency water container. <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

John

In addition to the usual, my already overstuffed wallet contains:

1. Telephone card;
2. Emergency notification list containing family, friends, neighbors' names, addresses, phone nos. It also includes such information as to hospitals, physicians, dentists, attornies, CPA, church & pastor, schools, insurance carriers with policy nos. & claims office phone nos. You never know what form an emergency may take;
3. Fresnel;
4. Assorted band aids (after all I have 2 active sons, not to mention miscellaneous Cub Scouts & Boy Scouts for whom I am occasionally responsible);
5. Auto Club card;
6. Health insurance card;
7. Birth dates, Social Security Nos., health insurance identification nos., & driver's license no. for each member of my immediate family;
8. Spare vehicle keys; and
9. Business cards (they make good note paper).

Incidentally, a goodly amount of cash can sometimes work wonders.

John