I didn’t do much this week. We have friends from Florida staying with us and they have seven children- so we have 20 people in the house. 16 kids age 12 and under!
I did start cobbling together my first aid kit. Long ago and far away I was a First Responder and did first aid for Boy Scout camporees, and I’m still a little picky about what goes into it. I have one of those first aid kits in the little plastic suitcase but I want certain things in it that don’t come in the standard kits. I added burn gel, children’s ibuprofen, children’s allergy medicine, and a few other things.
I still need to order a few things from Emergency Essentials. They have a Build Your Own First Aid Kit catalog, you can individually order those little packets of antibiotic ointment, bandaids, and single doses of pain reliever.
They have the best prices on the orange camping whistles for kids, too. Just $1.50 each, when I’ve seen them for $5 and up on Amazon and at the store. I need 6 of them so that’s quite a savings for me!
And yes, sigh, I’m going to order from Amazon.com because it’s too hard to find certain things around here, not the quality or type I want. Namely, an aluminum splint (these things are awesome, and you can splint any body part, arms, legs, what have you with it) and trauma shears/all purpose scissors (we’ll use these all over the house, I’m sure, but I’ll keep them in the first aid kit so we can find them.) The trauma shears are handy for frugal girls, because they cut right through denim and seams- great for cutting off holey jeans and making shorts!
Do you have a first aid kit? What did you do to prudently prepare this week?
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I keep a household kit, a smaller diaper bag kit and a kit in each vehicle. This way we are never without one! Many times other people have needed to borrow something from my kits because they didn’t have what they needed.
It is just me, but I also keep homeopathic apis for bee stings and homepathic arnica for all sorts of bumps and bruises in my kits. Your little nephew, Mr. A, slipped and fell and smashed his head into a pew at church last Sunday. But your sister-in-law pulled out arnica and I was AMAZED how much better he got, really. He looked terrible before!
I have a mini-kit I keep in my purse, then a traveling type one with the “heavy guns” which is the one I’m making. Also, we have a separate box of bandaids and tube of ointment for the everyday owies. And I’m also working on a basic car kit, but it won’t have some stuff in it (like the allergy med) because cars in TX get so hot it would spoil.
I have one that I keep in a plastic bin. The bin has a hinged lid and is a bit longer and deeper than a shoe box. I’m able to fit in full sized tubes of triple anitbiotic ointment, an entire box of bandaids, a whole bottle of peroxide, benadryl cream, adult and kids benadryl, pain meds and pain relief spray.
I agree – trauma shears are so handy! We use them to cut down corrugated cardboard to make mailing boxes. They work on just about anything thick.
We keep a mini-kit in the car.
It sucks when you have to compromise principles for expedience.
We need to get our kit together. I need fresh anti-diarrheal medicine, and someone who shall remain tall and redheaded in my house, has taken most of the Ben@dryl. Hopefully I can catch a good deal on it.
How do you decide quantities?