Survival: Survival Monkey Fist - Home Office Edition!

Yes....yeeess, I know I know. I start to look like a one-trick-pony here doing the same stuff over and over again. Best example: The "Survival Monkey Fist"

Which kind of anal retentive weirdo does these over and over again?! Is the repetitive work soothing for you/me? Am I on the spectrum?

I am quite possibly on the said spectrum but simple fact is: The meds and water purification tablets in survival sets have a shelf life and I don`t want to have a false feeling of "being prepared".

So I opened the wide selection of Survival Monkey`s Fist Survival Monkey`s Fist - Deluxe Edition or the legendary (in my own head) Glow-In-The-Dark Survival Monkey`s Fist to exchange the meds and water purification tablets and/or to add or to remove stuff I regret having/not having put there.

Borg Cube? The Puzzle Box from the movie Hellraiser?

Or just a frame to keep control with a 15 strand Monkey`s Fist

Lots of stuff I can reuse from the old/opened Monkey Fists.

I am sticking with the Israeli Taharmayim water purification tablets, 

they have a pretty long shelf life and I dont have to exchange them

before 2024. Bonus!

A neodym magnet, I often found they have a 

weird tendency to be extremely handy.

A nano titanium cleaver because it is small

enough to fit in and because I have no other use

for it. (Don`t eBay and drink!!)

A scraper for a mini ferrocerium rod I am going to add.

The compressed napkins I like to use for Capillary Water Filtration

All the other usual suspects are there again:

Tampons for water filtration (more to that later)

A BIC mini lighter with 3-4 m of duct tape, freezer bags, 

mini ferrocerium rod etc etc etc

I am sealing the lid on the plastic ball and work 

the Monkey`s Fist...in a fit of hubris I start without 

a frame...this is the sad result.

Better build a frame, this can be done with 

bamboo sticks for kitchen use and rubber band

(My favorite as it gives the best result...even though

it is fidgety to work with!) Here also a very nice picture

of the plastic ball I am using as container.

Easiest to make a frame with LEGO bricks.

Nice and even..

A paracord needle is THE tool for the job, you can get them cheap on eBay.

That is the problem with a LEGO frame:

The thickness of the bricks makes the ball "float"

in a tangle of cord if you are not EXTREMELY 

careful when removing the bricks. With the bamboo

stick frame you don`t have problems like that!

VOILA! Almost perfect little #EDC survival

kit...until 2024 :-)