The Every Day Carry kit is a valuable tool for survival in emergency situations, whether it’s an adventure in the wilderness, an unexpected disaster, challenges in the urban jungle, or other dangerous scenarios. Proper use of the EDC can make a significant difference between survival and failure. Here are some important safety tips and advice to keep in mind when using the kit:

Ten Guidelines for Proper Use of the EDC

1. Familiarize Yourself with the Contents: Before finding yourself in an emergency situation, thoroughly explore the contents of the EDC. Learn how to use each item and understand its limitations.
2. Learn How to Use Individual Items: Before encountering a stressful situation, learn how to correctly use various tools and aids in the kit. For example, how to light a light source, use a compass, or assemble a multifunctional tool.
3. Regularly Check the Contents: It’s important to regularly check the box’s contents and ensure that all items are in good condition and unused. Replace and refresh expired items if needed.
4. Learn First Aid: Knowledge of first aid is crucial for proper use of the EDC. Learn basic procedures for treating wounds, stitching, stopping bleeding, and other essential medical techniques.
5. Customize the Kit to Your Needs: In certain situations, it may be appropriate to add additional items to the EDC that will help you better handle specific circumstances. For instance, medications you regularly take or other tools important to you.
6. Keep the Box Accessible: Store the EDC in a safe and easily accessible place so that you can quickly find it when needed. In a pocket, in the top compartment of your backpack, in your car’s glove compartment, and so on.
7. Training and Practice: Set aside time for training and practice with the EDC. Explore different scenarios and simulate situations to be better prepared for real-life situations.
8. Don’t Abuse the Kit: Only use the kit in truly dangerous situations and don’t misuse it for everyday purposes. There might come a time when you truly need it in an unexpected situation.
9. Inform Someone About Your Plans: If you’re embarking on an adventurous journey or heading to a location where you’ll be out of reach, inform someone close about your plans and where they can find your Last Resort Box.
10. Always Have the kit with You!

It’s Not Just a Box, It’s Your Key to Survival

Remember that the EDC is a valuable tool for survival, but it can’t replace your own knowledge, skills, and decision-making in emergency situations. Being prepared and knowing how to properly use each item is essential for reacting quickly and effectively in unexpected circumstances. By following these safety tips and advice, the kit realizes its true potential as a guide in challenging moments.

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Once upon a time there was a box…

Attention – a fairy tale! Once upon a time there was a box. She lived almost her entire life in an ordinary room, where she waited with other boxy friends for someone to put some gadget from kouskysveta in it and send her on her way. She was completely new, unwrinkled, full of ideals and often listened to the people around her talking about traveling. It sounded great. And when one day it was finally her turn, she was clear – she wanted to travel the world! The box wanted to see all the beauties. She longed to see the blue sea, jagged mountains, blossoming meadows and incredible nature that those strange people in kouskysveta were talking about.

Our boxes are eager to travel the world! If you think she’s fit enough to handle it, don’t throw her in the dumpster right away, but send her on. Don’t forget to write where the box is leaving from inside the box in the marked place. Starts in Pardubice City. Let’s reduce the consumption of cardboard at least a little together. Let’s see where the boxes go!

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Good luck traveling!

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Cheeks flushed with blush, shy smiles or even upset. I met all of this in your faces when you found out that most of our kits also include a condom. In the following article, let me show you the incredible range of possibilities of what can be done with this amazing invention.

1. Water container

Thanks to its incredible flexibility, you can easily use the condom as an emergency bag for water or other liquid. Just be careful! When the volume of the rod increases, the resistance decreases. Therefore, it is a good idea to place it in a sock, to prevent accidental tearing.

2. Emergency glove

In an emergency, a condom can be used as a glove when dealing with any first aid issues. It will prevent dirt from your hands from contaminating the wound. It is also advisable to use them if you are dealing with an unknown person.

3. Waterproof packaging

A flexible condom can be used as a waterproof package for e.g. electronics (telephones, etc.).

4. Throttle

You can use the condom as an emergency pressure bandage for bleeding wounds, e.g. with a piece of gauze and an elastic bandage. If you don’t have gauze, simply roll up a piece of fabric.

Fixation of fractures

For example, making a finger splint with a condom is quite easy, you only need a twig to immobilize the finger and then twist the condom over the broken finger and the side finger.

Other uses

The condom can also be used as a rubber band – just cut it into strips. A cooling compress – ice or cold water in a condom can work wonders. Of course, you can also make a warm compress out of it. The condom can withstand boiling, so if you dare, you can place a suitable dish in it and, for example, cook in an eshu. It certainly won’t taste like Jamie Oliver’s, but you will certainly remember it for a long time. ? It can also be used as a slingshot elastic. If you inflate it with feeling, like an emergency pillow. You can even start a fire with a condom – after filling it with water, it becomes a magnifying glass. This takes some practice though. If you go into the water and have a patch on your hand that you don’t want to get wet, just cut off the tip of the condom and stretch it over your hand. Emergency sealing – for example, in a car, it can provide a short-term (e.g. with Duct tape) sealing of a pipe.

Last but not least, the purpose of a condom is to prevent pregnancy (barrier contraceptive) and at the same time to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted infections including HIV and hepatitis B and C. We live in the 21st century and I think condoms should not be taboo.

Textile adhesive tape, duct tape, carpet tape, gaffa. We all know her. Its history dates back to 1942, when it was custom-made by the US Army to insulate ammunition boxes. This treasure should not be missing in any EDC, its uses are countless, we will look at a few of them.

First Aid– Dozens of ways to use gaffes. For example, it can be used to compress a sprained ankle, as a tourniquet, as a wing patch or as a substitute for a blister patch. Tape up broken ribs: If you have broken or fractured your ribs but still need to function, you can give them support with duct tape.

Fire – Duct tape is made of PE foil, textile insert and glue. It burns great. A roll of tape can be used as a lighter. Can also be used as a chip “binder”. You tear off a piece of tape and stick chips on it. That way, you will be able to start a fire calmly, even if the wind is bothering you.

Resealing food – Use tape to seal partially opened packages. Fold over the top of the package and seal tightly with duct tape. You can also seal cans similarly.

Repairs of all kinds

Patches – The tape is waterproof, so you can seal a hole in a boat or a tent, it will seal a torn sleeping bag, container or hydro bag. Repair of work gloves. You mend shoes. I recently fixed a cracked bucket with a carpet cleaner.

Eyeglass repair – If your glasses break in nature, repair them using duct tape. You might look like a nerd, but at least you’ll see something…

Car or bike repair – Duct tape can temporarily help you repair a car – repair a broken pipe, fix “cobwebs” on the glass, secure parts of the car after a car accident (for example, if you break your mirror). Repair of cracked handlebar or saddle grips.

Marking the way – If you get lost on the way, you can use sticky tape to mark, for example on tree trunks or branches. Alternatively, you can hang a lightstick on it

And others…

Temporary hem on the pants – if you need to quickly shorten the pants, you simply fold the excess fabric inside and stick duct tape.

Removes dirt – Use the sticky side to remove sand from the tent, lint from clothes or even dirt from the mirror.

Shoelace – If you roll up duct tape, you can make a pretty durable replacement shoelace.

Keeps feet warm – If you want your winter boots to accumulate more heat, stick duct tape on the insole of the boots. The reflective surface of the tape will help reflect heat back to the flats of your feet, so your feet stay nice and warm!

Keeps your feet just OK – You are waiting for a shower in a dirty place and you forgot your slippers – put duct tape on your feet. Better than taking a wart away.

Wart Removal – This one isn’t completely scientifically proven, but it seems to work. The theory is that if you keep the wart completely covered for several days, you cut off the oxygen supply and suffocate it. It should be done in 6 days.

Opening glasses – Can’t open glasses? Wrap the lid with a piece of duct tape. Leave one end unglued. Just pull it and that’s it.

Duct tape can be found in all our kits. And as a wise man says – if the adhesive tape didn’t help you, then you didn’t use enough of it!

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