Watch the DIY store Survival Challenge next: https://youtu.be/Nz61YCUx13c?si=noOHgybN12Dup3xG

I tried surviving for 24h in Poundland as well, but they always kept throwing me out.

Regarding the fire bowl - Every inch of our woodlands needs to be cared for and respected. Totally on board with this bit of "cheating".

You should do a challenge where you have 5 minutes inside your house to grab everything unprepared, simulating an emergency situation, and you have to survive for 24 hours with just what you grabbed. That seems like a good challenge.

You say that enamel bowl doesn't have handles, but it does. It has two latches that, with two sticks THROUGH the latches from opposite sides, can make very good handles indeed.Wash it and the lid very well, and keep it for the next time.  Thanks for the video. Jon

How about a charity shop survival challenge,  where you find the things you need in charity shops.

You are impressed with the brightness of the head lamp while I am impressed it worked out of the packet... better poundland experience than I've ever had 😂

These challenges are interesting because you show different ways to solve basic camping problems. Most of us will have better items of equipment at home.  So much can just be borrowed from our Mum's kitchen drawers.  So many of us already have put together starter kits that will function well for many years.  My TAKEAWAY: read the labels carefully.  Buy pure water and the right size tarp.  Take a 'right sized' pot and lid from home.

Absolutely creased at the water, and then your face when you saw the tarp 🤣🤣🤣

Not cheating at all using the firebowl.
So, found it interesting.
Hope you don't mind me giving my take on it..cooking the beans first would have given you another cooking pot.
Duct tape a bottle lid to a stick would have given you a small spoon.
The biggest thing, I think buying a roll of black bin bags was the thing most needed.
Duct tape a couple to your tarp to make it bigger.
Fill a couple with dry leaves and tape them shut. Keep the bugs inside lol.. Makes a good browse bag.
This type of challenge, bin bags and Duct tape should be default items. Waterproof clothing by the way too.

Imagine going for a little stroll with your family and finding some random guy sleeping under a little tarp 😂😂  surprised you didn’t wake up with some loose change on your blanket 😂

You could add to this challenge by going back to the store and seeing how much you would have spend to have a "comfortable" night, like a decent size tarp and a spoon.

With a small tarp, I think it would have been much easier to find a fallen log to use as one side of the shelter and make it more of a low profile bivy set-up.

"I might as well roll myself up and cry myself to sleep" classic line. Loved the vid, thanks Mike.

Poundland started in the west Midlands as a shop called "Steves Discount Market " in the King's Square shopping centre in West Bromwich...just thought id throw that bit of trivia in

That torch is insane! For £1.50, that’s really good! Great video Mike!

A cheap vs expensive challenge  to see which bushcraft items are better depending on the expense, would be fun to see and help other armature campers like myself 👍

The fact that he can just go to a cheap store and make this of it is amazing! I loved the whole thing. Please do more of this in the future.

I was thinking the whole time you were talking about the water 'well yeah it would be a bit cloying and annoying but flavoured water for 24 hours is OK'. Then I remembered the pasta just as you brought it into shot. 😂

I'm guessing you realise, once the tarp was obviously too small, its basically a groundsheet. The shelter needed to be harvested locally.