this is my first instructable so feel free to add some critesism.
This is a pocket sized survival kit, made out of an altoids tin. There are probably thousands of them out there. And by all means customize your kit for your area & your personal preferances.

Step 1: Stuff Needed

To make our altoids survival kit we will need:
2 bandages
1 blued razor blade(makes the blade stay sharper longer) made by holding the razor in the blue part of the flame
1-5 packs of salt
1-5 packs of sugar
toothpicks
bobby pin
5 paper clips
q-tips
4sagety pins
2 square feet of heavy duty aluminum foil
arrow head
gum
sandwich bag
4 tylenol
4motrin
2 rubberbands
3 feathers ( can be replaced with duct-tape if you want to save some space
paper
match striker
button compass
personal info
neon orange tape
duct tape
5 matches
1 small pen
three strike on anything matches
1 quick strike lighter ( made by placing two butts of a match on a striker foling in half and duct-taping)
hook
swivel
fishing line wrapped on b-day candle
fly
jig
two fishing weights
and the tin
not shown (boyscouts hot spark , small knife, small flashlight, steel wire)
also a survival kit cheat sheet. you can download this pdf at
http://www.troop149mchenry.org/PSKsheet.pdf

Step 2: Packing It

first put the pdf cheat sheet on the bottom of the tin
next put the wire around the bottom inside edge of the tin
now your going to want to fold the foil until it can fit inside the tin. Then put the paper clips and bobby pins in the last fold of the foil

Step 3:

put the stuff in as flat as you can so you can fit as much stuff in as you can

Step 4:

almost done

(swith sandwich bag to the other side

Step 5: Finnally Done

now we put the last few peices in and were done
you might have take two rubberbands around the outside to help hold the tin down
you can aslo wrap some twine or paracord around the outside