whats your luxury items in your kits? or what luxury items do you need. camera,phone,book,pictures..etc.

Do you mean luxury, as in "expensive"? Or luxury as in "nice to have, but not essential for survival"?

It´s a little bit about what´s luxury to you, isn´t it?

In my 24/7/365-deep-core-kit the only not directly tool-like item is a picture of my wife - for me a psychlogical tool to support me to get home again.

My left eye is practically blinde so sunglasses are always with me to protect to sound one.

A watch is essential to me in daily business only but it´s a quiet expensive one - but from the preparedness point of view I wouldn´t need a watch at all.
By the same reason I could live well without my PDA except business demands.

A real luxus to me would be if I could have my wife and my dog with me all the time ...

Nice to have but needed...

In my ditch kit, the spice tin- salt, pepper, garlic powder, chili powder, crystalized lemon juice.

In my bug out, that would be the book. Right now I have a copy of "Guns of the South" in there. Always a soft cover, always a book I've read a couple times so that if I need to take the back pages out as tinder or TP, I won't be wondering how it ends.

I assume you meant "nice to have" items rather than expensive items... 6 Boullion cubes and 2 coffee bags in my outdoors PSK.

In my kit the luxury item is a deck of cards. I have used cards throughout many years of traveling in the military and across the country on a Greyhound as well as many hours in the ER. Another thing I like to have is my Mandolin. For years I carried my guitar everywhere, even to the movies on a date.

not essential. but it can be expensive i suppose <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I got: playing cards, foldable cardboard chess/checkers set and some crossword puzzles for my wife (she loves those), a notepad and pen.

In my BOB, I carry playing cards and a small Teddy Bear.
An explanation must be provided: My children always sent a teddy bear w/me on my voyages, to keep me safe from harm. It doesn't hurt to have a good luck charm AND it takes a REAL man to carry around a Teddy Bear!

I also travel with a teddy bear, but that's just on business trips.

yea charms and lucky items can be a good moral booster.It can give you the extra boost of fuel you need.

off the top of my head i think i have: the ultimate survival guide by john lofty wiseman, a small inflatable pillow that folds easy(which has multiple uses if you think about ,that i have discovered).
some little packs of sweettarts.all of the above in my bob.
and i always try to carry a cross on me when i can , that and prayer really do wonders for moral.

Thanks to you, I remembered 1 other thing I carry: my medicine pouch (in the Native American tradition). Little things like these do matter to one's morale.

The best luck is what you make yourself

That isn't luxury, that is part of your identity.

Other than my knife? Everything else is pretty much a luxury isn't it?

I suppose I make a short list of absolute essentials and include a firestarter, a water purifier, a bivy, and the clothes on my back. Anything else I can scavange or MacGyver up, more or less. I wouldn't bee too comfortable for a while, but I could get by well enough with that.

Books by Turtledove are necessity (for sanity), not a luxury! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Photos of wife and kids.

I-pod nano, loaded with John Hiatt, Steve Earle, Warren Zevon, Elvis Costello, and the Stones. I consider this motivational music.