72 Hour Emergency Starter Kit

Four things, and the reason for each one.

Most people don't fail a bad night because they were missing something exotic. They fail it because the power went out, the phone died, and nothing in the house was where they thought it was.

This is the smallest honest starting point I can put together — four pieces that cover the four things that actually go wrong first.

What's inside

• Emergency Thermal Survival Sleeping Bag — reflective mylar bivvy. Weighs nothing, packs to the size of a fist, and holds your body heat when the heat is off and the house is getting cold.
• Flint & Steel Fire Striker — fist-sized high-carbon steel. No fuel to leak, no lighter to fail, nothing to run out of. Works wet. Works cold. Works in twenty years.
• Motion-Sensor LED Headlamp — hands-free light. The single most underrated item on this list. You cannot carry a child, open a door, and hold a flashlight at the same time.
• Survival Paracord Rope, 9-strand — securing a tarp, a load, a gate, a splint. The thing you don't think about until you need fifteen feet of it and have none.

Why it's priced like this

Bought separately these run $72.96. Together they're $54.99, and they ship free.

I'd rather you start here than not start at all. If this is the only thing you ever buy from us, it still puts warmth, fire, light and cordage in your house — which is four more than most people have tonight.

Every item vetted by a working firefighter/EMT.

Shipping note: the fire striker ships from a separate facility, so this may arrive in two parcels. Both are tracked.