I was talking to someone the other day, absent mindedly playing with the empty Hooah wrapper in front of me, and I wondered what they could be used for in a survival situation.

I thought perhaps a back up signalling device, or emergency patch for clothing, a tent or bike tire.

Other ideas?

-Lure to attract birds or small animals into a snare.
-Fishing lure.
-Small drinking cup.
-Does it burn? Fire starter or accelerator if so.
-Stitch a few together to make a heat reflector.
-Cut small slits, and use with string to make snowglasses (reduce snow blindness).
Water resistant wrap for something small.

Stitch a bunch together and make a hat to reflect those durn mind-control rays ..... <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

good one, 'specially to block those durn mind control rays"

To leave a message on, so that a thousand years from now, someone knows where you went. :P

Melt it and use it as a binder. If you had a bunch you could crumple them up and use for insulation.

This? Why I could make a hat, or a brooch, a pterodactyl...

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

I guess that, a few days later when you are getting really really hungry, you could sniff it and pretend you are eating one...

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there, does it make a noise? I would drop the wrapper and take 3 steps forward. With my luck, an Earth First! activist would start berating me about biodiversity, a state trooper issue a citation for littering and two blue haired grandmothers from Saint Paul with a birding guide give me a good lutheran lecture. Oh, I could also make a splendid fishing lure and involve Fish and Game for good measure.

I think I remember a MacGyver episode when – faced with this very situation – he used it as a single square of TP.

checking the time stamp on your post, a question comes to my mind :
are bankers supposed to be drinking alcoholic beverages so early in the morning ....????.... <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Frenchy-

Was just trying to decompress after 8 hours of [forced] Christmas shopping with my wife. It was brutal. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

On the positive side, told her I was going to test for ham license in January, and after a little skilled "guidance" (OK, it was blatant manipulation) on my part, she agreed to get me an Icom handheld radio for Xmas <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> (thanks Schwert for the recommendation).

May I express my deepest sympathy .... ??.... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


... well done .... !!!! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Oh, sweet light, what did you do that was so naughty? You have my deepest and truest sympathy.

-shudders- I did my Newtonmass shopping online for a reason.

cellophane can be made to make a piercing, very loud screech if you hold the edge tight just in front of pursed lips and blow. mess around with it a little and you can get good at it. it's almost as loud as a whistle

I have used a PowerBar wraper to repair a bike tire twice, makes a great boot. Gel packets work well for this also!

How about an occlusive dressing?

all my other ideas have already been posted.

Oh yeah, that's right.

I like to do that with tape grass, or reed blades. I can really get a good screech or two out before the durn thing shreds.

Anyone else try this? I bet a skilled person can squawk well over 100 db out of one.

Looking at the make-up of my flashlights; could you form a concave cone (using the reflective side of the wrapper) around a chem light to direct or magnify its candlepower? at 200 yds a dull green light that is 3 inches across is better than one that is half an inch across. Try it sometime.. take a peice of alunimum foil and form it to the inside of a funnel. Take the foil out and place a chem light in the hole at the bottom of the foil cone. then hold a chem light by itself up in the other hand and see which one is brighter at 50 or 100 yds... " Throw nothing away! Even the most insignificant item could be credited for saving your life"