Six Prepping & Survival Items That Somebody Could Sell A Bunch Of If They Manufactured Them

Preppers are, by and large, a creative and industrious lot. There are many people among the ranks of the prepping community that are amazing at pulling off all kinds of do-it-yourself projects, who invent high quality devices and solutions for many different types of needs.

Then… there’s people like me. 

I’m not “helpless”, but the “do it yourself” bug is one I’ve never been bitten with. I do it myself when I HAVE to, but in general I would rather their be a quality commercial option available built by people who know what they are doing.

My part of the transaction is earning the money to pay them to do the thing they do best.

I do have ideas about things that preppers need that, to my knowledge, don’t exist… or if they do, they keep their availability well hidden from me. 

I would love for somebody to invent and market the following six items. Feel free to take the ball and run with it, start a Kickstarter or whatever, and make these things happen!

1) A GOOD crank powered flashlight with all the crank/body components made of actual metal and a good dynamo that won’t break after 10 minutes of use. There are many, many crank flashlights out there, and every single one of them I have seen is just a cheap plastic piece of junk. I think if a person could keep the price under $50 and make it rugged as heck, you could sell a TON of these things.

Plastic here, plastic there, plastic everywhere. Imagine trying to use this at 0 degrees…

2) A good, simple, at home seed cleaning system. Seed cleaning is both critical and a pain in the butt to do right. Commercial units work great, but they need scaled down. Hand powered, of course.

3) A pre-made “sun tracking” solar oven that actually works. There are some good pre-made solar ovens, but none of them (to my knowledge) track the sun automatically.

4) A good “plug & play” solar system that doesn’t cost the moon and that actually works. There are many kits available, and there are even “plug and play” kits, but frankly they are low power, not robust and basically glorified toys. Turnkey portable solar? You could sell them, a lot. 

5) A portable solar water heater. Not just a rubber bladder that gets hot in the sun, but an actual solar water heater that can be moved from place to place. The ole “Gallon Plastic baggy” doesn’t really cut it in the North past September. 

6) A good, heavy duty food-safe barrel pump that is affordable. Most barrel pumps are either junk, or not food safe.

There’s a few ideas, please add your own or share links if some of what I am asking for is available already.