Bug out bags are essential tools that you will never use – until you have to do so. When / if that situation arises, you will be thankful you spent a bit of time preparing.

What to pack, however, remains a mystery to many folks and that can lead to a bag full of stuff you cannot use.

Essential Items to Pack In Your Bag

There are a myriad of lists available online that provide suggestions on the essential items to pack in your bug out bag. However, the best person to determine the necessary items to pack is you.

The items in your bug out bag should generally fall into the following categories (listed in order of importance):

1.    Shelter And Safety / Protection
2.    Water
3.    Ways To Make Fire
4.    First Aid
5.    Hygiene
6.    Food
7.    Personal Tools

Hopefully, none of us will ever have to use our bug-out bags. But you never know, you just never know.

Whether a man made event, natural disaster, civil unrest, the list is literally endless of things that could demand you vacate your premises and situation immediately and a bug-out bag makes that much easier.

In fact, it could be the key to your survival.

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