Every kit should have a flashlight and extra batteries, if you already have a flashlight in your kit, check the batteries. I would pull out the flashlight and see if they are all still working and replace the batteries with some that you recently purchased. The batteries from your 72 hour kit flashlight are still good and can be used in remotes or kids toys, but I just prefer to have fresh, new batteries if at all possible in my kits.
If you don’t think you need a flashlight for every kit, think back to a time that there was an extended power outage at your house at night. There are seven of us at our house and as soon as we sent everyone to get ready for bed there was a problem—drawers are awfully dark with only one flashlight in the room and as soon as someone needed to go to the bathroom. . . pandemonium reigned. The one exception I would make is that a baby doesn’t need a flashlight as he/she will not be far from an adult. But trying to explain to an 18 month old why he/she can’t have a flashlight too is worth the purchase of another flashlight.
One other comment about flashlight, don’t include the cheapest ones you can find. Those have a tendency to break easily or not work all the time. LED flashlights last longer and have a brighter light than other flashlights, in my experience. There are often good deals on packs of flashlights if you need to purchase more than one. We purchased some of our flashlights at
Costco in a 3-pack.
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