Winter car kit (pre-covid)

[wolf_from_wv]

I made a list one day of stuff I carried in the car in the winter.  I drive about 27 miles each way to work, and have been the only car on the road when I was on midnight shift.  I tried to stack the odds in my favor.

This kit has changed since covid and masks and everything else.


MOLLE SUSTAINMENT POUCH


4 – Uncle Ben's Ready Rice Pinto Beans & Rice
2 – Uncle Ben's Ready Rice Red Beans & Rice
1 – Uncle Ben's Ready Rice Roasted Chicken
1 – Chicken flavor Ramen noodles
2 – Butterball cracked black pepper turkey jerky
1 – So Natural freeze dried strawberries
4 – StarKist lemon pepper tuna packets
2 – StarKist honey BBQ tuna packets
1 – Great Value tuna packet
8 – Herb Ox Chicken bouillon
2 – Betty Crocker Herb and butter mashed potato flake packets
8 – Sunbelt fudge dipped coconut granola bars
1 – Bridgford 3.25oz Sweet Baby Ray's beef jerky

DUFFLE BAG (in car)

1 - blaze orange overalls with reflective stripes
1 - yellow reflective vest
1 - knife
1 - folding saw
1 - folding shovel
1 - small fire extinguisher
1 – Sterno stove kit
1 – water filter
1 – 12V heater/defroster/light

CAR

3 – reflective triangles
Mini-tire inflator
1 - tent
2 – tarp
1 - heavy blanket
1 - thin fleece blanket

POCKET

1 - Zippo lighter
1 - Leatherman Wave
1 - 3AAA flashlight
Bandaids
CPR mask
Whistle
Knife


1 - mechanic's type gloves


1 - Hot Paws ski gloves

1 – clip-on sunglasses

SMALL MOLLE POUCH

1 – compass
1 – AA flashlight
1 - signal mirror
8 - tinder packs
1 - ferro rod




1 - Zippo handwarmer
1 - can Zippo fluid

BACKPACK

2 - construction type face masks
1 – goggles
1 - 3AAA headlamp
1 – AM/FM/weather radio
1 - battery brick phone/tablet charger
1 – micro-usb cable
1 - Iphone cable
1 – USB-C cable
50' paracord


2 - FRS radios


AA batteries
AAA batteries
Crayon containers help to organize batteries by type
1 - box storm proof matches

SEWING KIT (in backpack)

Needles
Thread
Thimble

FIRST AID KIT (in backpack)

5x9 trauma pads
bandaids
Ibuprofen
Tylenol
Immodium
Meclizine
Zyrtec
Benadryl
2" guaze wrap
2x2 gauze pads
3x3 gauze pads
napkins
toothbrush
toothpaste
deodorant
Hand sanitizer
Nose spray
Saline nose spray
Rehydration packets

MOLLE CANTEEN COVER (on backpack)

GI canteen
canteen cup
canteen stove
trioxane tablets
water purification tablets

VEST KIT

2 – UST wetfire tinder
2 – 12" square aluminum foil
1 – UST fire steel
1 – UST one hand fire starter
1 – whistle/compass/match safe with 16 strike anywhere matches


1 – 100yd 8lb fishing line
1 – 100yd 10lb fishing line
Sinkers
Hooks
spoons
Swivels
bobbers


Garmin Legend E-trex
Engineer lensatic compass


Area maps
1 – large garbage bag


"ninja" mask
Coin cell headlamp


Space blanket


SwissTech rescue tool (window breaker/seatbelt cutter)


Buck Crosslock sheepsfoot knife


PRC-68 Strobe Light converted to use 123 batteries


2 – Hot Hands super warmers


PopTart
5 – surgical masks

[majorhavoc]

Excellent list!  I'm a visual person so photos would really make this post come alive.  When you list items found in "pocket" do you mean a map pocket in the vehicle?  And the vest kit, is that something that's always in the car?   

Maybe I'll list all the things in my car kit but one thing I noticed off the bat is water, or lack thereof.   My car has a cup holder molded into every door.  A mostly full 16 oz waterbottle lives in each of those pockets (I drain off an ounce or two to allow for expansion when they inevitably freeze solid in the winter) and I have a larger (quart size?) waterbottle in the back.

[wolf_from_wv]

Water is usually limited to being carried out each day so it doesn't freeze.