I would also include.... a wallet with photos, an ID or Driver's license, some cash, a debit card with a small amount of money on it. A watch.

if I had to skip out in a hurry... i may not have these things on me. If detained in a camp... and escape, these things would probably have been taken away... with clean clothes... looking more like a jogger.. don't forget a bottle of water and a head band... maybe a cheap ipod... with a wallet and watch, they may stop you but let you go.

Because of earthquakes, my kids and I buried a rubber maid tote not far from their school. It contained a BOB so if the school went into lock down... they could get out in the confusion and head for home through a canyon and wash.
We sealed the lid with silicone sealant to keep the water out. everything in it was old and expendable.

Saucy Rose

I posted a thread some time ago asking for suggestions about a food cache on our property while the house is rebuilt. Someone, I think it was Blast, suggested that I recreate a BOB, which I've done in a 5 gallon bucket.

I used mostly stuff I had, a lot of gear being replaced in my BOB. I bought a Heatsheets Bivy for our BOBs, and the cheaper emergency sleeping bag went into the bucket. For food, I used rice and beans, it was cheap. I have a cheap bottle of water, mostly because I wanted a bottle in it. Some iodine with instructions on using it to treat water. An inexpensive knife and multitool, the knife was $1 at Wal-Mart and thhe multitool less then $15, from a few aisles over. Some plastic dropcloths, useful as shelter or for collecting rain water, a pruning saw, etc. Waterproof matches. And a few other things. It's not as good as my BOB here in NYC, but it would never be a bad thing to have.

I've started looking into this some too since my bug out location is 250 miles away. I'm trying to find someplace in between to store some gear. My best thugh is a state park that allows geocaching. Get permission to plant some caches and document them on the geocaching web sites and then plant one undocumented cache for myself so it appears that I'm just doing the geocaching thing.

don't forget some books and a wind up radio. A day is a long time if you are just sitting.
The Sock

Those wind up radios the internal battery goes bad just sitting in a cache, much better to put in an aa or aaa powered one and some lithiums.
I think the most important cache item though would be a gas can but how and where to store it I don't know.

Something to think about in regards to caching would be storing everything(even if it's already in a bag) in a 5 gallon bucket. It can serve many roles: a waterproof container for burying the cache. if you have to hide the cache in a building, a bucket will not be as conspicuous as a bag. and finally, a bucket is handy for its intended use as well, a bucket.

I use the 5 gallon bucket for everything- all my long term gear, emergency toilet, water tote, etc. they stack easily, are essentially airtight, and don't look like anything valuable to prying eyes. I have the square topped cat litter buckets (sanitized of course, but unused cat litter isn't dangerous anyway, is it?)

I know your not supposed to expose babies or pregnant women to cat litter so there must be something nast in it. I used to store things in cat litter buckets but everything I put in them would smell and taste like it, its pretty strong stuff.

I think the major problem is used cat litter, which can harbor cat scratch fever, which is usually harmless, but can be dangerous to infants. Unused cat litter is just bentonite clay, but clumping litter can contain silica dust, which is harmful to breath in. But silicosis is a pretty long term style disease. And just rinsing out a box should remove the dust.

That would be “used” cat litter, containing cat feces due to the possible the cat(s) are infected with Toxoplasma gondii.

Pete