Tin o' Stuff: Essential Oils

A reader commented a few days ago on the Altoids Survival Kit Items (Extensive List) post and said that he carries essential oils in his tins.

Daniel stated:

Have you considered essential oils for your first aid kit? I keep some 1/4 dram containers with essential oils. See: https://squareup.com/market/the-image-foundry/edc-essential-oil-pack

For cut, bruises, headaches, colds, flu, sunburn, insect bites, purification, viruses and more you can get a lot of bang in these oils. I've seen some store smaller amounts in sealed straws if size is an issue.

Below are images that he'd sent me showing what and how he carries these oils.

In an Altoids tin.

Lined up in a Tube Vault ("Baby Soda Bottle")

These are GREAT additions to a tin - be it survival, EDC, first aid, or otherwise.  As Daniel had mentioned, these are great for various purposes.  I personally think those little bottles are AWESOME.  haha The perfect size to stash anywhere - there's really no reason not to.  I have to find one and carry that... Asian green oil stuff with me.  I really don't know what it's called (but I think it's made of Eucalyptus?) as it's directly translated from "dầu xanh" ... "oil green." 

Thank you for the suggestion, images, and explanation of uses, Daniel!

:)  Be sure to check out the original list (here) to pick and choose what would best make your tin.

Cheers!

Gloves (045/365)

I finally got around to adding gloves to my FAK and Tin o' Stuff.  It would have definitely come in handy when I had my accident last month - I kind of recall Sis cleaning up my gash and getting my blood all over her.  These ones are stored in those EZ-Dose zip baggies by the pair before getting stashed in my FAKs.  :D  These baggies aren't the best at keeping air out, so I'll have to look for a more compact method... or better zippies.

I didn't get a chance to get the Nitrile ones as I had planned, but these ones will do for now.  These are vinyl ones (latex free) that I had gotten at Wally World.  They are a little on the pricey side at 8 gloves for $0.98 per box, but that's okay.  The Nitrile ones that I'd wanted have been out of stock in my size for quite some time (and Harbor Freight usually only has the medium or larger ones on sale).

Labels! / Tin o' Stuff (015/365)

Whoo!  I got a new embosser not too long ago.  I got my very first label maker at the age of 11.  It was a small Dymo that cost about $6.00.  I like it was called the Label Buddy?  I absolutely loved it, but when I got into high school, I lent it to my friend, who unfortunately broke it.  It was the perfect size and everything.  Since then, the embossers were a little hard to come by since Dymo, Brother, and other companies dabbled into the print type. Dymo still does make the little gun looking ones, but they are much larger than I would like.

Fast forward years later to 2012.  Smashbook, that one company that changed the face of the scrapbooking world, introduced this little guy (in purple, at that!).  I found it at Michaels and it retails for about $10.00.  I had a coupon, so it brought it down to just about $6.00.  I've been labeling just about anything that I could ever since!  This works out perfectly because as far as I know, it takes my old Dymo cartridges.  I picked up a bunch of them when they went on clearance years ago for about $0.30 per pack of 5 (much better than the current retail price of these!).  Yes.  I really love labeling my items.

It works perfectly fine and is absolutely tiny, but I wish that they designed it like the Label Buddy in that there was actually a place for the embossing tape cartridge to sit in.  This one just has it sitting off to the side and half the time it unrolls itself.  I tried latching it on, but it just messed up my labels since the tape couldn't roll out properly.  Oh well!  It works!  :)

Hmm... I wonder if they still make the Bubble Tape embosser!  I'll have to keep my eye out for that.  :P  I find it now and again in the candy stores that sell a lot of those novelty type candies.

As for the Tin o' Stuff...  Just giving an update that it's suffered a few dings since it was residing in my Maxpedition Pygmy Falcon, which I was sporting throughout the skating accident on Sunday.  It's only got some dings on the lid, but it still closes perfectly fine.  :)  Yay for hard love!  :)