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When it comes to selecting your emergency survival kit, it is wise to pay attention to physical dimensions. They can make a difference, especially if you’re purchasing online or from a catalog, where you don’t actually have that kit in front of you to see and feel.

Consider the kits manufactured by a company such as Guardian, a firm that specializes in these kinds of items. The choices are normally either their 72 hour kits that are packaged in a durable backpack, with lots of room for your own additions, or in what is described as the Survival Pal, a “compact survival kit (that) is packed neatly into a durable waterproof cooler bag.”

Both are well made with carefully selected components, and, when viewing the pictures of the individual kits, it is natural to assume that the choice is simply between something you can slide onto your back or something you’d carry using the shoulder strap provided. In other words, which is the most sensible solution when considering your particular needs?

There is no denying it. That choice needs to be made, but if dimensions are actually taken into account and not simply skipped over, then it soon becomes apparent that one kit is significantly smaller than the other. There is nothing wrong with that, but now it becomes important to also decide between a larger emergency survival kit with lots of room for expansion, and a truly compact kit that will take up little storage space but which will lack many of those expansion possibilities.

A careful examination of the facts before purchase can eliminate regrets later on.