I posted a thread some time ago asking for suggestions about a food cache on our property while the house is rebuilt. Someone, I think it was Blast, suggested that I recreate a BOB, which I've done in a 5 gallon bucket.

I used mostly stuff I had, a lot of gear being replaced in my BOB. I bought a Heatsheets Bivy for our BOBs, and the cheaper emergency sleeping bag went into the bucket. For food, I used rice and beans, it was cheap. I have a cheap bottle of water, mostly because I wanted a bottle in it. Some iodine with instructions on using it to treat water. An inexpensive knife and multitool, the knife was $1 at Wal-Mart and thhe multitool less then $15, from a few aisles over. Some plastic dropcloths, useful as shelter or for collecting rain water, a pruning saw, etc. Waterproof matches. And a few other things. It's not as good as my BOB here in NYC, but it would never be a bad thing to have.