Auto Emergency Kit Organization! Must Haves for Every Day Carry & Emergencies!

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• JE

  @jenharvey3397 · 3 years ago

  Yesterday I had a good example of why it's a good idea to be prepared whenever you drive. Crossing the border into the US to drive to MA for my step mother's long delayed funeral, border crossing shut down for over 2 hours due to a system outage. Security agents walking down the very long lines of vehicles occasionally to tell people to get back in their vehicles and be patient. Some folks were honking horns, getting impatient, yelling that they needed food or a toilet. I pulled my collapsible mug and a packet of miso soup out of my tote bag, poured out some hot water from the thermos at my feet, and calmly sipped miso soup, nibbled senbai, and read a book until things started moving again. Later in the day, I stopped to have a snack at a service center that was closed down - they had a gas pump and a porta pottie, everything else closed. I watched an older lady walk toward the porta potty, open door, and sort of jump back in horror. I was able to hand her a sealed "Potty pack" which had a seat wipe, hand wipe, tushie wipe, seat cover, and paper. It was enough clean stuff to allow her to use it. (Yes, they are a real product, from the company by the same name!)

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• EN

  @enanry · 3 years ago (edited)

  Hi, love your videos. You can also use your head rest to break a window. All cars head rests are removable. This is designed as a safety feature just in case you can’t get to the glass breaker. 😊

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• JE

  @jenharvey3397 · 3 years ago

  Hi Eunice, you are really speaking my language here! Growing up in the Great White North, where for at least 4 months a year, getting stuck in your car could become a death sentence, we learn to prepare our vehicles for emergencies before we learn to drive. Where I live, items for winter survival take priority, so I have many more warmth items. (One tip for winter sleeping in your car here: unless you are wearing snow boots, take off your boots and wet socks, put on the wool socks you keep in your car, then place an activated hand warmer along the bottom of each foot, then top with heavy wool slipper socks, then finally wrap feet in a survival blanket. All of that will go into your emergency bivvy with the rest of your body!) In cold climates, taking care of your feet in the cold is essential, every winter one hears at least one story of someone being stuck in their vehicle overnight and needing to have their feet amputated due to frostbite.)  I would love to have a vehicle like yours, mine is much smaller and less well thought out in its design (it was literally the only small crossover in the car place when my venerable old steed gave up the ghost). Far less space in mine, so I need to rely more on organizers slung over seats. Molle back seat organizers on both back seats filled with pouches of useful stuff, including a small Barocook and fuel packets for heating food or water inside the car and a small fire extinguisher,  a combination trash bag/tissue holder on the front seat, a cute front seat organizer from Vera Bradley that doubles as a walker organizer when I need to walk around stores and use my walker for pain. I also keep an unexpected motel stay bag in my car for those times I might need to stay somewhere without having planned it, a cook/drink kit with a single walled water bottle in a molle water bottle bag, and a Mountain House bucket in case of longer stay (the bucket takes up more space, but helps cut down on rats and mice getting into it - in my very old house and alleyway shed garage, mice and rats are an enormous problem.) Some of the things you mention, like pepper spray, are illegal here. I discovered a while back that US border guards get very shirty about people having anything in their vehicle when crossing the border (enough cash for a couple of nights at a motel in my wheel well got me stuck in secondary for about 3 hours when I crossed the border a few months ago), so I tend to take nearly everything out when I cross the border. I am doing that fairly frequently at present, living on a border city - usually to shop or pick up some gadget I've ordered from your Amazon shop which I can't find here in Canada. I have to be very careful, but I do keep the classic AAA emergency bag, which doesn't usually raise eyebrows, with a few small additions, and a water bottle, and a VSSL flashlight filled with small emergency supplies in my glove box. That doesn't appear to be suspicious. But I feel better when I can stay this side of the border and keep all my winter necessities in the car.

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• LE

  @leslekcleary7621 · 3 years ago

  My new favourite channel. Thank you.

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• DO

  @DonD56 · 3 years ago

  As always you have lots of neat and useful things. Thank you for all the work you put into your videos. Very helpful.

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• MO

  @moniquec7215 · 3 years ago

  OMG!!! You are truly THE Gadget Queen!  Love all your ideas… and what I especially like is that they are gender neutral ideas that every traveler should have🤩

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• PA

  @pattirose54 · 3 years ago

  I have always traveled with snacks and water plus a blanket in the back. You take it to the next level. I am going to add a few of the items you have in your Jeep.   Thank you Eunice for a very helpful video.

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• CU

  @curious855 · 2 years ago

  I have hiking sticks, two folding chairs and a folding table (they fold into carry sacks and have tent pole style legs), a bivy, a small tarp, a rain poncho/shelter, hat and gloves, walking shoes, cashmere socks (so warm!),-first aid kit, a daypack with the essentials, but no clothes at the moment. I need to add a few things. I keep a Matador blanket, small first aid kit, Swiss Army knife, flashlight, folding eating utensils, a water bottle, snacks, Budi and power brick, shopping bag, mirror with light, eye drops, meds, pen, pad, small tablet, in my purse, and an insulated thermos for coffee/hot water in the console. We're required to have a breakdown kit in the car, which has jumper cables, fix a flat, high-viz vest, reflective triangle, jack, and flashlight. I also have a strip flashlight with different settings that has magnets so it can stick to the inside of the hood, if necessary. My partner thinks I'm mad.

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• CO

  @colleencorr-panek1064 · 3 years ago

  Eunice, I've been power watching your videos today and THIS BY FAR IS MY FAVORITE!!!! Not because I particularly NEED to do this in my car but because you showed your personality in this video!!! I love your side comments throughout this. Keep up the good work in your next videos 😂

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• KA

  @Kaykavoosi8 · 3 years ago

  I love love  sesears also I am glad that I am not the only one

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• CR

  @CreachterZ · 1 year ago

  I’ve never seen that saw extension. Very cool!  Thanks.

• LE

  @LezleysAdventures · 3 years ago

  I like those sun visor attachments

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