slayer,

Of all the items I have in my various kits the needle and thread have come in handy many more times than just about anything else, other than a knife or multitool perhaps. It is not always about major emergencies...sometimes sewing a button on your pants seems like a real emergency <img src="images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

A kit or more properly multi-kits is always around me. I follow the MiniMe approach of on-body, coat, desk, shoulder bag, and car kits each getting bigger or having better items.

My desk kit has the rubble kit---3' pry bar, hardhat, and lots of extra water so I do not carry these around.

I always think of these as concentric rings of better equipment but all relying on the same set of basic skills.

Minimum is the on-body and while my scenario does not use a PSK tin it does use a PSK vest and pockets and belt to have what I consider the absolute minimum. BTW needle and thread is one of the items that meets my absolute minimum test.