What Are the 5 1/2 Things You Need in a Survival Kit? By C West

When you are putting together your survival kit for home or office, there are items that you need to have to be minimally prepared. These are:

1. Food and Water

Lets face facts. The body can last only 3 days without water and several weeks without food. But when dehydration kicks in, you make mistakes due to confusion. Having plenty of clean water is crucial. A case of bottled water will do. Add some high energy bars for 3 days worth of eating, you can keep the mind fueled right and hopefully not making mistakes due to hunger/thirst.

2. A Multi-tool (Leatherman/Gerber/etc.)

A multi-tool is crucial since you never know what situation you will come across where a pair of pliers or a knife is needed. When you are tired and the food bars wrappers are hard to open, guess what - a multi tool comes in handy. Plus you never know when a screwdriver or other attachment is needed!

3. A Space Blanket.

At night, keeping warm is important. A space blanket is light weight and waterproof. Wrapping yourself in the blanket at night will ward off hypothermia which is dangerous in cold climates. If you have a couple of them, you can use one as a cover and a second as a blanket.

4. An LED flashlight:

Traveling at night if hazardous without a light. Tripping over stuff can be hazardous to you! Be sure to have additional batteries as well. If you want to have a multi purpose light, get a combo light and radio (make sure it can get NOAA weather stations!) Make sure that you get one that uses LED for the bulbs since they last way longer than a standard bulb and are more durable!

5. A First Aide Kit

Having a proper first aide kit with supplies can be a life saver. Make sure it is properly stocked with supplies which are not EXPIRED. The best way to ensure the kit is up to date is to have an annual kit check date where you dump the old/expired stuff and replace it. If you plan to do this on new years day, you will always have your ducks in a row!

5 1/2. An Inventory List

Having a method to check what should be in the kit and when it was last replaced is all too important. What good are expired supplies or spoiled food in your kit at a time of disaster? The easiest way to store your list is to type it up and place it in a zip lock style badge. Make sure you have a date written on the list as well for a quick view for the last time you checked your kit.

Make sure you keep these items in a soft briefcase, backpack or other other case with a strap which you can sling over your shoulder. Be sure you also keep a set of comfortable shoes in your office as well in case you have to get the Heck otta Dodge!

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The Most Important Things to Know About Smoking By Steven L Jones

Many, many people smoke. That's kind of a stupid statement, but bear with me here. While many people smoke, very few understand the underlying causes of why, in addition to smoking, they find it so hard to quit.

If you don't want to quit, here's where you should go read something else. If you do want to quit, however, you've probably realized that it's not exactly the easiest thing to do. More than that, nobody seems to be able to offer you any actually credible ways to go about it. Instead, you get a bunch of ideas that sound great in theory but are obviously ridiculously hard and won't ever actually get put into action.

Why is that? Because far too many people believe that they can treat the symptoms of nicotine addiction with patches and pills without dealing with its root causes. The causes are why you smoke, and they're entirely in your mind.

If you've ever tried quitting before, you remember that great feeling you had when you told yourself that you weren't going to smoke any more. You probably felt great for a day or two before the cravings started kicking in, and then the whole quitting thing didn't sound all too great any more.

In order to properly quit smoking, you need to understand that your subconscious controls your desires to smoke. It's what causes your mental state to change from the happy cigarette free you to the depressed smoker who can't break free from their habits.

When you want to smoke, it isn't because your body is telling you that it's running low on nicotine. Your body is quite happy, in fact, to be rid of nicotine. Your mind, on the other hand, has associated cigarettes with pleasure so deeply that it believes that you will somehow feel better by having a cigarette.

Granted, that's not actually the case. When you're feeling down, having a cigarette doesn't bring you up. Smoking a cigarette when you're happy doesn't make you feel happier. You're just convinced that is the case, and understanding that is the first step to freeing your mind from its addiction. When I say understanding, I don't mean that you need to stop relying on those triggers, just that you need to know that they are present.

When people quit smoking cold turkey (and there are those who have successfully done it) you've slowly and painfully broken those ties and realized that cigarettes won't make you feel better. Instead of spending weeks being a pain in the butt and wishing you could smoke a cigarette, there's a better way of going about it. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to, over the course of a few mere hours, break away from your mental prison and be able to go about life without constantly thinking about having a cigarette?

You're far too smart to need to waste your time thinking about smoking. You need a way to just stop the whole thing in its tracks so you can move on, once and for all!

Resource: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=379133&ca=Self