Perhaps it would help if you explained why you chose some of these items. Some items (lip balm, matches, lighter, knife and cough drops) don't need an explanation. Are the cotton-balls multipurpose items or are they strictly used as tinder? If strictly used as tender, why not replace them with Tinder-Quick?

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday