CostCo is at it again. Remember the Bucket O’ Survival Food that wound up having to be re-labelled because it was considered misleading to call it an xxx day supply? (By the by, CostCo has these things at $99 and I’ll bet they ain’t gonna sell many of ’em.) Well, same outfit, for a hundred bucks, gives you a bucket full of Made-In-China ‘survival gear’…also now at CostCo. It contains, among other things, a Sterno-type stove, a halfway decent waterbottle/purifer, a windup radio/light combo and of course some of the fabulous starvation-grade food pouches that made thei first preparedness offering so memorable.
I’m not kidding, I stood there and went through the bucket looking at all that crap. Factor in the Made-In-China angle and you have some seriously overpriced crap. However, I have to be fair…if I were trapped on the roof of a building by Hurricane Katrina and all I had was this bucket o’ junk I would probably be glad I had it. HOWEVER..for the same hundred bucks I could put together a far more superior system that covered more needs.
Still, the mere fact that products like these are appearing in the mainstream shopping venues is encouraging.
I’d be slightly concerned about the toxicity of the food given the dog food issues going on lately.
i’d keep the 100 bucks in the glove box and the radio tuned to news i’d put canned food from the pantry into the bucket, into the trunk and in case of anything i’d get the hell to somewhere else as quickly as possable and figured out what i needed to spend 100 dollars on.
if all i were willing to spend was 100 dollars anyway.
HMM
sorta like those overpriced “72 hr” kits in a daypack. seriously rather pack my own in washed kitty litter buckets for emergencies than rely on unknown pre-packaged survival kits of dubious quality.
or would you trust emergency rifle kits, complete with ammo, that you never had fired off, before an emergency? hell no! so spend your money on grub, supplies, and other stuff that you can use now or future emergency.
and those troubled times are arriving fast for many out there. be forewarned and prepared. Wildflower 07
Those survival kits are sprouting up everywhere these days… I certainly wouldn’t want to count on the food in that kit in an emergency, but at least it is something that is on the market for those who are following the good ol’ FEMA’s recommendations and can’t figure it out on their own… as for myself I’d rather purchase items that I know I can count on.
This is my question as well.
Bucket O’ Goodies
I would be interested in a list of essentials that could be packed into a 5 gallon bucket, and what the people here would recommend.
While I too am dubious of the pre-packaged BOBs and 72 hour emergency kits, consider how much better off any community would be if every home had one of these starter kits in the closet.