prepping things to never throw away trash to treasure don't throw away DIY prepping emergency survival gear save money
hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper I'm out at Granny Camp
which is my Alaska remote off-grid cabin and I wanted to talk to you about things
that preppers should never throw away make your won prepping emergency survival gear save money reuse things
before you throw away or recycle something look it over and think about all the
ways that you could use it trash to treasure some of the items that you should never
throw away include egg cartons dryer lint soda cans straws
let's look over a bunch of items that might normally get thrown away or
recycled and figure out how you can use them for
prepping prepper and emergency survival DIY prepping gear needs save money reuse items start with dryer
lint we know it's a great fire starter you can save up a cardboard tube even an
old dryer sheet and stuff dryer lint inside of the cardboard tube you have
a fire starter I put a magnet clip from Dollar Tree onto a gallon ziploc
bag stuck it right on the side of my dryer
and I can use it every time I have to empty dryer lint
put it into the bag then it's all collected I have a nice big supply
of free fire starters just from my dryer you can also use cardboard tubes as seed starters
DIY seed starters put a few snips in a cardboard tube fold up the bottom
and you have a little container ready to use for starting your seeds
jars are always handy I like the Classico pasta sauce jars because they have the
same lid as a canning jar so you can clean them
out and reuse them to store your dried foods
you can also use a jar to make an oil lamp
remove the lid from your jar and punch a hole in it
when you do it punch a hole from the bottom through to the top
you have little nubs of metal that are going to help hold the wick
in place so it doesn't slide back down into the oil or the jar
cut off one of the mop strings and stick it back up through your jar
lid fill your jar with oil place the lid on
and screw on the cap you have a DIY oil lamp from a jar
you can save up old crayons and use them as candles
you can make a charcoal lighter just take a big old can
and you cut out both ends of it and you just go around with a church key can opener and
poke holes in it all the way around
use a can with a lid poke a hole in the lid and use it to make char cloth once
your can is empty you want to loosely fill it with cotton rounds
get your barbecue going full blast and set the can
onto the barbecue the heat from the grill is going to
char the cotton so that you have char cloth left DIY fire starters
you can use an empty can to melt wax to make a little emergency stove
make a simple buddy burner cut strips of cardboard
roll them up and fill an empty tuna can now pour melted wax
over it and then in an emergency you can light the wax
it'll burn the cardboard and you have a buddy burner
plastic bottles from things like soda water
and gatorade or sports drinks can be cleaned out
and used to hold emergency water or if they have a wide enough mouth
you can use them to store your dried foods rice beans
oatmeal lentils all can go right into the
plastic bottle make sure it's only held food
and then on the bottom it says p-e-t or p-e-t-e
melt down old candles and pour them over things like dryer lint
pine cones wood chips egg cartons and make fire starters
save your old newspapers to start fires clean windows
you can spread them out between the rows and your garden to mulch the weeds
wrap up garbage or roll them into fire logs
you can cut off the bottom of a plastic container and use it as a mini
greenhouse or cut it and make a funnel
use old pill bottles to hold small items kindling matches you can even use one to
make an emergency water filter kit pill bottles are airtight use them to
store your oxygen absorbers flatten and roll up an empty water
bottle for an emergency water carrier container there's hundreds
of uses for plastic bags stuff them in the empty dishwasher
tablet box and place them right under the sink you
can take an end kleenex box and stuff them in and then
you can easily pluck them one at a time out of the top do you buy oatmeal
stuff them in the oatmeal carton make a slit in the lid
place it on and you have a pop up garbage or trash
bag dispenser if you have something like an
altoids or a candy container you can make many emergency kits
you can make fishing kits there's all kinds of little kits you can put
together in empty altoids and candy containers
do you have straws you can turn them into little waterproof containers
fold over the straw pinch it in a little bit
and push the ring of straw you cut off right over the end
that will seal it up and allow you to open and close it when you want to open
it take off the straw ring open the
straw and you can pour out what you want
seal it back up with the little straw ring
if you ever get take out food and they give you plastic utensils
save them in your bug out bag keep a box of them in your kitchen then in an
emergency you have plastic utensils you don't have
to wash things say if there isn't any water
there's all kinds of things you can do with an old pop can DIY emergency survival gear prepping prepper gear
you can cut a pop can soda open use it as a lantern put a candle in it
you can flatten soda pop can out and use it as an emergency baking sheet
you can cut off the bottom and use that to make an oil lamp
sometimes I buy food it comes in a plastic container with a snap-on lid
you can save these for organizing your emergency gear
label them on the side use them to organize your dog's poop bags
use them to store your face masks and gloves put them by your purse so you
remember to take them when you go out of the house
look things over before you discard them try to think
how can I use this for something else DIY emergency survival prepping gear save money load up a five
gallon bucket with things you might throw away that are interesting to you
and see if there isn't a way that you can figure out how to use them
the more ways that you figure out how to use the thing you have
the more things you actually have and it can be
creative it can be entertaining and it can really be life-saving
if you figure out how to use the things that you have
to make the things that you need prepping can be a lot of fun
it can be a challenge and if we've thought about emergencies that we may
face then we have prepared and we're mentally
ready to face whatever comes our way
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