I am no doubt jumping the gun a little posting this, but I have at least started the process of rebuilding the first aid kids in our cars.
It’s been one of those things I have meant to do for over a year now, after having attempted to use a bandage out of the car last spring only to discover that it was incredibly cheap and deteriorated from years in a hot car that it would not stick to anything.
So, a year later… I unpacked the kit to look at what all would need replaced:
Nothing in that picture looks too amazing. The “instant cold pack” seems to have failed sometime in the past, and much like the bandage I tried before… every single adhesive item in the kit seems questionable.
With some careful reading, I eventually found a label with an expiration date… January 2001. Suddenly it seems perhaps the blame for poor performance falls more on me for using a kit that is 16 years expired rather than deficiencies in the initial quality of the kit!
I have ordered an assortment of items to restock with… the final value of the refill is going to exceed what just replacing the whole thing would cost, but if we end up needing even so much as a band-aid, having the nice stuff will start to seem worth it.
Does this feel at all like a repeat? Turns out I did a good sized post about our in-home kit before
-Jordan
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