We keep a get-home bag in all of our vehicles at all times, for us these are a collection of tools and supplies, but not an obsession.
Get-home bag – the minimum necessary to get the job done
I’ve got to admit it, in the prepping community there seems to be a bizzare fascination with the collecting, construction and contents of get home bags, three day bags and bugout bags.
I’ve seen people come to verbal blows on the subject on prepping forums, to the point where somebody eventually whips out the Navy seal copy pasta…
These three types of bags ARE important, but the amount of contention I have seen about them borders on the downright silly.
The get-home bag podcast
In this episode, we open up Spice’s “get home” bag that she carries with her in her car. Keep in mind that this car rarely travels more than 40 miles from home, so that very much affects the contents of what she has in it.
One thing we both highly recommend is some form of lithium battery powered boost charger for the car, the stronger the better. It comes in handy in SO many ways. Here’s what she has in her car.
Not that they always work… of course… and not that we always have them…
Sometimes, despite a prepper’s best intentions, bad things happen without us being properly prepared.
In this article, we explain a fail, when after a new car purchase we didn’t transfer all the get-home equipment into the new car. You can read about it by clicking HERE:
Click, Click, Click: Postmortem Of Our Recent Really Dumb Prepper Fail
Yes, that wasn’t our finest moment
Another fail involving our get-home bags is learning what happens to gel caps when they get really, really hot.
Let’s just say that what happens is very, very ungood
Give the podcast a listen!