You’re far away from home. Your in, we’ll say, the jungle. Lost in the jungle and forging for food. (Don’t eat the green beetles!) It’s about now that you wish you had a lot of things you probably didn’t pack on a trip. Things that are so versatile, they can help you deal with wardrobe malfunctions just before a date with the cute Korean girl you met last night as well as jack up your survival odds in the jungle.

1. Duct tape

If you bring one thing with you on your trip, make it this. I can’t even begin to recall how many times a roll of this stuff has save my ass. Duct tape has a cult following for a reason. When the soles of your shoe break off, your water bottle springs a leak, or the straps of your backpack tear, everyone turns to duct tape. The US military, and I am not making this up, even carries it aboard their carriers to fix F-16s.

2. A small sewing kit

Circle of life. Buttons fall off, stuff tears and having a spool of thread, a few needles and some spare buttons are going to get you through it. You can also use the needle to get out those splinters you acquired collecting firewood to cook the wild boar you just took down in the jungle with the spear you made out of duct tape.

3. Small jar of peanut butter

In life there are wants, and there are needs. Food is of the latter and there’s nothing worse than being stuck, say, on a bus with an all-consuming pang of hunger. Worse, reading The Hunger Games. What I love about peanut butter, is that a little goes a long ways. It’s filling, and at your hungriest a few spoonfuls are all you need to not feel like your losing The Hunger Games.

4. Wind-up or solar powered light.

Batteries are so 1990s. We live in a world today where you can grab a light for a few bucks that will last forever! Well, until you lose it. If you’re at all like me, you will lose it. Circle of life. The one I use cost me $5, so I can afford to lose it.

5. Huffy Disney Princess Scooter

Okay, so technically this is a list of 4 essenial items packing and one that’s only semi-necessary. But seriously, you’re going to want to have your Huffy Disney Princess Scooter. It folds up and fits in your bag. Imagine scooting around the streets of Paris in this lil baby. The French would go crazy for you!