What’s Your Most Overlooked Prep Item?

BlueSkyWanderer

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What’s Your Most Overlooked Prep Item?

Reusable feminine hygiene supplies often get missed in lists—especially for longer-term scenarios. What’s the one item you consistently forget or see others overlook in their kits? Curious what folks here think is flying under the radar.
 
Vinegar—so many uses and rarely on lists! Cleaning, preserving, even soothing bug bites. Do most folks carry any multi-use cleaning stuff or just stick to wipes?
 
So many great suggestions already—hadn’t thought about vinegar for bug bites, but I’ll be adding it to my kit now. One thing that I see missed a lot is plain old pencil and paper. Folks rely on phones for notes or directions, but those go dead fast in a power outage or run out of memory. Having