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1. These emergency blankets costs less than 80 cents each in bulk. Great for winter travel (ie upcoming storm), backpacking/hiking, any disaster prep kit. There are lots of brands, but the cool thing about these is they are very affordable, and lightweight -- you can stick one or two in your car, throw one in the desk at work, put it at the bottom of your backpack or briefcase. These work great also as emergency signaling devices (they are big, and shiny!)
@ai6yr Surprised no headlamp on the list. There are so many great AA headlamps around, id suggest that way over a maglight. Hands free is amazing. And if you need you can hand hold a headlamp.
Tips for headlamps: go for AA. They have much more power, the AAA headlamps are all crap. All of them. (1 AA ~= 4 AAA is why!) Don’t worry about name brand at a camp store. Most are AAA crap for the label. Fenix, Zebralight, and Sofrin are some brands to check out.
Dont get lumen stary-eyed unless you are willing to deal with 18650 cells.
And if ya wanna dive deeper…get some eneloops and a decent charger but this strays into a totally different topic about why low self discharge rechargable batteries are far better for high draw over time and also why you should just replace all your AA and AAAs with them haha. Costco often has eneloop multipacks with charger on sale this time of year if ya wanna go down that rabbit hole.
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1. These emergency blankets costs less than 80 cents each in bulk. Great for winter travel (ie upcoming storm), backpacking/hiking, any disaster prep kit. There are lots of brands, but the cool thing about these is they are very affordable, and lightweight -- you can stick one or two in your car, throw one in the desk at work, put it at the bottom of your backpack or briefcase. These work great also as emergency signaling devices (they are big, and shiny!)
2. Emergency inflatable solar light (Luci Light, other brands)
These are wonderful, inflatable solar charged lights (great for camping, or for when the local right wing militia puts holes in all the power transformers in your town). The Luci light is about $15.00, and there are other brands too. You let them sit in the sun to charge, and you can inflate them and hang them anyplace, or put them on a table. Also great for when PG&E or SCE turns off your power during a Public Safety Power Shutoff.
(Update: apparently these are now $30 or more!! Not sure if this is inflation or tariffs... but there are other options of similar design)
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