I have read all of your replies above, and realize that I have alot of the things you all mentioned above.
I have the jars and things needed to do fermentation. I even bought a beginner’s fermentation kit. I want to begin fermenting some food for my chickens.
I have alot of small, rechargeable fans to carry in the car when I have a long wait in a mobile pantry line, or at the cancer center when my wife gets chemo, if they are not allowing family to come into the clinic on that day. There are days I have to sit in the car for four hours while my wife is getting her treatment. Though lately, they have been allowing one family member in again, which is good given the excessive heat. But all last summer, I had to sit in the hot car while she went in. Those rechargeable fans were a lifesaver.
And I have a bunch of other things listed above.
so, what do I have to contribute to this list, that nobody else mentioned?
Let me think…
I have two rechargeable iPods with the old fashioned, wired ear plugs, bought back around 2013.
They are loaded with music that me and my DW like. Plus, the iPods can pick up FM radio signals, too, so the iPods double as an emergency, battery powered radio receiver.
If power goes down for an extended period of time, iPods can run 24 hours on a single charge, and do not draw much energy when they do finally have to be recharged. I have a solar powered phone recharger that can fully recharge the iPods in under an hour, and leave plenty of stored energy to recharge my iPhone.
iPhones can be loaded with music, too, and music can be quite soothing in an emergency situation.
But I figure my iPhone will be needed for other things, so I will not want to waste my limited iPhone power on something like music. Besides, most iPhones today require wireless ear pods, and that is just one more thing that would have to be powered up in an extended power outage.
My iPods, on the other hand, can provide all the soothing music we need, and the old fashioned wired earphones will not require any additional recharging (above and beyond recharging the iPod itself.)
Plus, the iPod is so small and lightweight - not like current iPhones - and can be carried and listened to even when engaged in hard labor.
I originally bought my iPods to use when I ran marathons.
If you can enjoy good music on an iPod while you run 26.2 miles, the little musical powerhouses should handle hard labor as well