They can go in lunchboxes, backpacks and emergency kits.
This is especially true when we are being advised to stock emergency kits with iodine pills.
The rear is nicely carpeted, with tool and emergency kits stored underneath.
Churches responded with extra collections during Masses and assembled emergency kits for children and the sick.
Products include a compact fire-starter, emergency kits (whistle, tinder, matches etc) and a rather fearsome-looking parang jungle machete.
One Saturday, I slicked on a Ms. & Mrs. Deodorant Towelette, a refill for the brand's diminutive emergency kits.
But plans to deliver 5,000 emergency kits from warehouses in Damascus were postponed because of continuing violence in the capital.
Officials urged residents to draft family disaster plans and emergency kits, but they said duct tape and plastic sheeting were less important than blankets and batteries.
"At this point, we're only telling everybody to make sure they pay close attention, make sure they have emergency kits and evacuation plans in place," Ms. Jarema said.
People shouldn't just have 72-hour emergency kits for when the power grid goes down; they should learn how to live on their own.
An entrepreneur in the Siberian city of Tomsk, for example, has sold several thousand gag emergency kits, a cleverly packaged $29 parcel including sprats, vodka, buckwheat, matches, candles, a string and a piece of soap.
