#10 cans and their many uses.......
If you buy a lot of freeze dried and dehydrated food to put away, it might come in #10 cans, the old coffee can type. Well, I figure as we're working through contents we'd wind up with a lot of cans. Yeah, I know that we'll be using some to actualy prepare and cook some of the contents, especially when it comes to doing grain expansion, and I guess I can store water I don't plan on drinking, maybe even use some for waste, but does anyone have any really clever ideas on what to do with a lot of #10 cans post SHTF?
I use one to hold emergency items in my car. I use one to have as a hobo stove to cook on if stuck out away from home. I could use sticks, pinecones, or any flamable item to boil water or cook on. I have one in my kitchen to
put seeds in as I save them from my vegetables as I get things ready to cook like squash or pumpkin seeds as well as tomato and bell pepper and cucumber seeds. You can use one to hold homemade biscuit mix, magic mix, or any other homemade mixes. You can use them to keep crackers and croutons in. It will keep the moisture out and any bugs or rodents if you have
a problem especially if you are living in a bug out location like a hunting cabin. You can keep your first aid supplies in one under your bathroom sink.
You can keep matches, firesteel, lighters etc. in one. You can keep all kind of small toys and crayons and coloring pages etc. to keep a child busy in case
of an emergency so they won't realize something bad is happening. I have
a twelve year old granddaughter I am raising. I keep a couple of smallish books, drawing tablet, markers, pencils, erasers, mirror, comb, chapstick, small amount of hard candies, deck of cards, etc. in one in the car. I have used it a couple of times already when she had to go with me to the hospital
for an appointment for myself. She sat in the waiting room, did some drawing and read one of her books. I try to change up things in it once in awhile to keep her interests up to date and give her a surprise. It also works well on the long trips we take once in awhile. There are many other items you could put in the cans. You think of a few. Like different uses in the car, bathroom, kitchen, garage (screws, nails, nuts and bolts) keep hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and baby wipes in the car just in case you have to go while away from a bathroom.........