It's always good to get some use out of your emergency kit. I can't tell you how it pains me to go through and toss out of date items that saw no use only to restock them "just in case"

On the other hand when you use any of it to help yourself or others the expense doesn't really seem to matter.

Sometimes it's cool to be the "go to" guy. Sometime it's not so good when they expect you to keep restocking everything by yourself.

When I went camping with friends last summer, no one got hurt, and none of us needed a PSK, but we used an amazing amount of equipment and pieces from my Medium PSK and FAK.

We used a lot of my kit for various things around camp, but most of it went to repair model rockets we were launching.

I used my Leatherman's blade, saw, scissors and file.
We used my marking tape as streamers for various rockets.
We cut 550 and unbraided it to repair parachute strings.
We used Duct Tape to repair everything from burn holes in parachutes to broken fins.
We Used 550 with a rock tied on the end to retrieve rockets from trees.

And then it got silly...

I taught the guys how to make "bottle rockets" out of the engines we had left.

We cut sticks, shaped and filed down knots with the Leatherman.
We made loops for the launch pad guide with twist ties.
We attached the engines to sticks with duct tape.