what could you do with an energy bar wrapper?

Posted by: Ors

what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/07/05 09:04 PM

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?
Posted by: Farmer

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/07/05 09:13 PM

-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="" />
Posted by: 7k7k99

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/07/05 10:17 PM

good one, 'specially to block those durn mind control rays"
Posted by: ironraven

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/07/05 11:51 PM

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

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/09/05 08:19 PM

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

Posted by: Anonymous

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/09/05 11:33 PM

This? Why I could make a hat, or a brooch, a pterodactyl...
Posted by: groo

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/10/05 04:55 AM

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
Posted by: OldBaldGuy

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/10/05 05:22 AM

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

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/10/05 07:16 AM

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.
Posted by: xbanker

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/10/05 08:29 AM

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

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/10/05 11:12 AM

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="" />
Posted by: xbanker

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/10/05 02:46 PM

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).
Posted by: frenchy

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/10/05 05:48 PM

Quote:
8 hours of [forced] Christmas shopping with my wife. It was brutal.

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

Quote:
she agreed to get me an Icom handheld radio for Xmas

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

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/10/05 07:11 PM

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.
Posted by: Anonymous

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/10/05 10:11 PM

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
Posted by: Alan_Romania

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/12/05 01:29 AM

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.
Posted by: benjammin

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/12/05 11:41 PM

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.
Posted by: mtnhiker

Re: what could you do with an energy bar wrapper? - 12/13/05 02:32 AM

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"