If this is not the first time you think about survival, you will know that the benchmark for such urban (and not-urban) kits tend to be the one presented in John Wiseman's "The Urban Survival Handbook".
The guy, a former SAS member, has a rather high-tech, high profile approach in its general purpose / wilderness survival kit, including things like a radioactive, tritium based, light source.
I must admit that his Urban kit makes a lot of sense... but I believed I could improve on that.
Container
Just while I was pondering about which container might be suitable, given a primary goal of having a kit the size of a sigarette pack... Lucky Strike came out in Italy with a special edition pack. Made of plastic and metal, light and reasonably resistent. Problem solved.
I've seen good alternatives, such as much tougher tobacco metal boxes (the SAS option), specialized survival plastic containers (costing you an arm and a leg) and so on. Another classic is the "Altoids Mint Tin" (or equivalents). My recommendation is: try to have fun.
Stay alert, you'll soon find some food or equipment container or some box originally developed for some completely different purpose that you can hack into a BUPK container.
It's much more fun to find clever and cheap solutions than to buy specialized equipment when not absolutely necessary; and especially when the price difference is not fully justified by performances or special features.
The guy, a former SAS member, has a rather high-tech, high profile approach in its general purpose / wilderness survival kit, including things like a radioactive, tritium based, light source.
I must admit that his Urban kit makes a lot of sense... but I believed I could improve on that.
Container
Just while I was pondering about which container might be suitable, given a primary goal of having a kit the size of a sigarette pack... Lucky Strike came out in Italy with a special edition pack. Made of plastic and metal, light and reasonably resistent. Problem solved.I've seen good alternatives, such as much tougher tobacco metal boxes (the SAS option), specialized survival plastic containers (costing you an arm and a leg) and so on. Another classic is the "Altoids Mint Tin" (or equivalents). My recommendation is: try to have fun.
Stay alert, you'll soon find some food or equipment container or some box originally developed for some completely different purpose that you can hack into a BUPK container.
It's much more fun to find clever and cheap solutions than to buy specialized equipment when not absolutely necessary; and especially when the price difference is not fully justified by performances or special features.
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