Ok I have been thinking about posting this for a while. I have a friend that some years ago I got into firearms and shooting sports. He enjoys his sporting rifles with big ol mags and handguns, but is a bit of a fudd, "I dont see the practicality in it" he says, he just enjoyed sending mass amounts of lead down range in a short amount of time. It was difficult to explain to him the importance of the second amendment without sounding like a tin foil hat wearing idiot, but I pulled it off and explained that the next evolution for me was prepping. At this point I donned my tin foil hat in his eyes. As I explained why I prep he became more understanding, and he decided he wanted to get into it a little buying a little extra bottled water, some extra cans of food etc, but said he didnt have the funds to really set up any sort of emergency GHB or EDC. He remembers on some of our outings me carrying a camo backpack and always wondered what was in it. It was the first GHB/EDC I carried. It was crudely pieced together with mostly stuff I already had around the house, garage sale stuff, improvised stuff, dollar tree finds and freebies. I took pictures of it at work one day when I was board and found the pictures on my old lap top and thought I would share them with him and I figured on here to. The biggest investment was the pack itself I bought a complete ILBE set from a craigslister for 75$ so the assault pack is approx 1/3 the cost so 25$ish in the pack, everything else fell into place over the coarse of a few months and total investment was sub 100$. just showing it does not take huge chunks of money to get a decent pack together. It has since evolved into a money pit of pastime for me, but it does not have to start there.