having the industrial strength trash bags from hardware stores are beneficial too.


you can wrap saplings in a circle and put the bag down thru the middle and make a raft.

you can use as a sleeping bag to trap heat.

dry storage to keep things dry

cut it down the side and make a tent/tarp shelter.

us it as a layer and barrier to waterproof a more permanent lean to shelter.

Dollar stores are great too, I have bought dental floss for many uses, tampons for packing gauze and fire starter, hand sanitizer for wound care and fire starter extender, saws, small crow bars, box cutters for skinning game, long burn candles, sterno, batteries and tons of other things.

shower curtains for water proofing lean to or other wooden shelters


Google $1 store preps for some other ideas