1. Sturdy Can opener
2. Fire starter ability kit
3. Head lamp / portable hand’s free lamp
4. Sewing kit
5. Water storage containers/ stainless steel
6. Cast iron skillet
7. Compact stove or rocket stove
8. Manuel Bow saw
9. Professional grade multi-used tool
10. NOAA emergency hand cranked radio
11. Stainless steel water storage containers
12. Properly balance splitting Axe
13. Solar panel and lithium power station
14. Pressure cooker
15. Canning containers
16. Crow bar / pry bar
17. Manual grain mill

I find it incredibly heartwarming that an AI voice is so deeply concerned about my physical survival. Thanks, Skynet, I'll go buy that multi-tool now.

Silky make great saws. fantastic recommendation.

My one item missing is knowledge, books. Meat can be salted to preserve it.

You can open cans easily, just rub the top of the can on the concrete till the seal breaks. I did this for months while homeless. No food is wasted if you're careful. Rub it tilll you see a wet spot. Then carefully open the can

Salt to taste food, preserve food, bake and a necessary electrolyte, especially during the heat. I have some salt with iodine, needed for the thyroid. It will be an item to trade because people didn't think of this.

Anyone else notice the dudes on the couch firing up blunts with a Zippo lighter?

buy the "old school" can opener ..(P-36???)...have 6 of them in my disaster tote(s)..dad taught us to use them long ago!!

Thank you for the video, prepared not scared!

The only thing on the list that I don't have is the grain mill. Of course, I don't have grain to mill... All the others, I have 3 or 4 of each, plus more modern backups. Oh, I don't have a rocket stove, I have a cast iron stove in my BBQ grill shelter, plus firebrick to make a ground-level firepit. I have 21+kwh of solar power banks, I have 4 Lifestraw water filters. What I need is to get an electrician out here to wire a solar power bank backup circuit to my well pump. I have more than 2kw of solar panels to recharge my power banks. 10.24kwh of the solar is dedicated to keeping the fridge running during a power outage. The other 10.8 kwh is for my workshop outside the house, and drop cords can route that to the house if needed. We have 20 oil lamps for illumination, plus candles. We have a propane as well as an electric camp stove, plus the BBQ grill and the cast iron stove for cooking. We have an emergency propane heater with a CO detector built in to keep a third of the house warm during ice storms, as well as a wall-mounted CO detector. Electric chainsaw that can be recharged by the solar setup. Half an acre of woods behind the house that can become emergency firewood--and during a SHTF situation, easy access to 10k acres of woodland I would reluctantly harvest as sparingly as necessary. Not to mention ample deer, rabbits, squirrels pheasants, ducks, quail, feral hogs, and bear who wander up into the yard occasionally. As for two-legged predators, a sausage grinder would greatly expand our pet food supply. Don't @ me folks. I'm from East Tennessee. From an area where even Revenooers have learned to make appointments before raiding Grandpa's still. SHTF in the 1930s, and the fan still isn't cleaned off. I'm almost 70, and I have seen quite a lot of change in the world.  --Dan

The old-school items in these comments make the most sense to me: hand tools, extra batteries, a real can opener, buckets, and something that works without the grid. Simple gear is a lot easier to trust when life gets complicated.

A budget breakdown would be helpful. Which 3 tools should someone buy first if they only have $100? Not everyone can afford to stockup all at once.

Galvanized steel bucket is always a must. Fire underneath it then fill it with water, either a warm bath or wash your clothes.

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A very informative video and well made.

Make sure it's a big water bather. I unfortunately bought the medium one

Gerber multi-tool....👍

Accept the needle and the rvs barrels, i got it.

Have 2 waterpurifiers but the needle i Just ordered.
Thnx

This is some AI generated slope.
1. Can opener. If you can't open a can without a can opener, you need a course in the basics before you start on survival and prepping. An ordinary knife will do the job.
2. Ferro rod. What nobody tells you is that ferro rods oxidise over time. After five years in storage, you may find yours partially degraded and coated in a grey powder. That's oxidation, and slowly but surely it ruins the rod.
3. Survival radio. This one is a joke. Solar charging takes forever, and winding the hand crank burns a lot of calories for very little charge. In a crisis, you should be conserving energy, not running around like a headless chicken doing "survival work" and then needing 5,000 calories to recover.
4. Compact stove. This one's fine. But when a real emergency hits, you can make one from any larger tin, such as an old paint can. It holds up to the heat perfectly well. It isn't as versatile or comfortable to use as a commercial stove, but it does the job.

The rest of the items are genuinely good to have at home.

The folks looting stores are taking things thatbare useful