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What is your unique item?

Postby TheWindAndRain » June 1st, 2012, 5:05 pm

What is that item you always bring in your pack that other people don't usually think of as necessary?
For me it is baby powder. Going barefoot in my shoes with baby powder is the only way I have found to avoid that rotting foot syndrome and blisters. I have come back from weeks in humid weather without washing and held my shoe right up to someone's nose and they said it smelled GOOD!
Inb4 CEEGE about his umbrella ;)
With what I have gained, I wander about in all the world, without being subservient to anyone. Therefor if thou like, rain sky! -The Sutta Nipata
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Re: What is your unique item?

Postby SteveK » June 1st, 2012, 11:15 pm

Prooooobably the solar panel.

Nerding out on the road, awesome ;D
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Re: What is your unique item?

Postby beatfeet » June 2nd, 2012, 1:47 am

May be kind of dumb but I carry my own real fork and spoon. Has come in handy so often.
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Re: What is your unique item?

Postby dmac » June 4th, 2012, 6:27 am

i carry a coin i found, it has the upper torso of a naked woman on one side, the butt and legs on the other and says "heads i win" on the first side and "tails you loose" on the other. also carry an umbrella that i get a lot of crap for, but when it is 90 something i have shade and they don't! i use it more for shade than for rain, but it is great for that too. i have a cheap carnival folding paper fan that has been worth its weight in gold, people laugh till it gets hot.
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Re: What is your unique item?

Postby kevbo610 » June 4th, 2012, 12:00 pm

baby powder is def. a must. i also love my hammock.
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Re: What is your unique item?

Postby Lightfoot » June 4th, 2012, 5:12 pm

Box-cutter knife and sunblock.
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