$25 Walmart Survival Challenge - Winter Camping in Rain (3yr old chose half the gear!)

Luke and Jake here at the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel and we are going to take 25 bucks down to Walmart and see if we can buy everything we need to survive in the woods, in the rain, in the cold. Do you think we can do it? All right so me and Jacob are here at Walmart we got our $25 budgets and I've got Nathan here with me who's giving moral support and we're gonna go inside Walmart and see if we can't get all the equipment we need to do some winter survival camping tonight. All right. All right hands down the cheapest mattress they have is $7.97 and it's for the Ozark Trails air mattress. For 10 bucks you can get the 50 degree bags which are very thin and they're also an adult size or you can pay as much as $36 for a 20 degree bag. I don't know about this getting two sleeping bags for me and Jacob it's gonna break this budget. Well the sleeping bags aren't gonna cut it so we are gonna look at blankets here. So we're gonna go $5.88 for this 90 inch blanket. All right now that I've spent my budget it's time for Jacob to spend his. All right Jacob you want to buy your survival stuff? Yeah. Okay what do you want to get first? You want the fuzzy tiger blanket? Yeah. Oh you want a furry blanket too? The animal print is $4.96 and the fuzzy one is $8.88. What do you want to buy next for your survival trip? I want a great white shark. You want a great white shark? Yeah. Oh my goodness look at that. What is this? A great white shark. Is that gonna be good for your survival trip? Yeah. Now Jacob you have four more dollars. Do you want to get another blanket? No. It's gonna be 32 degrees tonight. You sure you don't want another blanket? How about a knife? Should we get a knife? Yeah. All right let's get a knife. One knife. Well Jacob I think we have two dollars left. What do you want to get? You want a t-rex? Yeah. $1.97 for a t-rex. There you go. We got our survival shark and our survival t-rex. Well there was some dubious budgeting by half of our team but we've got our stuff we've kept within our budget time to go test it out. Okay the official amount on the receipt $52.28 and there was $2.78 worth of taxes so we came in under 50 and popped over on their taxes. Yeah I asked Jacob to spend his budget on survival gear and that's what he bought. Oh boy keep my baby warm. I'll try. Yeah we'll see how this goes. I gotta pack up his his survival gear. Well we're here but it is cold. It's a high in the low 40s today and it's supposed to get down below freezing tonight. So I'm gonna dress Jacob up nice and warm before we head off into the woods. Well I don't have a backpack so we're gonna have to improvise. Survival t-rex. Another fuzzy blanket. A bottle of water. All right you back there Jake? Well we're about two hours away from my house and on a piece of property where I'm working on a pretty big project. I'm building an off-the-grid blacksmithing forge. We got a lot of other really cool projects going on here too. Hopefully you guys will get to see that pretty soon. First things first I gotta bust my knife out. Dang it. I really need a knife to get the packaging off this knife. The blade is inside the knife and I need to undo this little screw to get it out. Luckily my key is kind of working. I just bent that key. Uh-huh got it. Come here. All right we got a knife and the first thing we need to do with it is open up survival t-rex. There we go. Now we can survive in the woods. Well guys I kind of made a big mistake. I forgot to buy matches or a lighter or anything for making fire so we're gonna have to dig deep today. Luckily I've got a little bit of a cheat. When we went camping last time I wore this jacket and I left some cotton balls in my pocket and I use cotton balls as fire starter and they work fabulous. But I am going to try to make a fire using a cotton ball. The first thing I'm going to do is try to gently unwind this cotton ball. It's a little mangled though. That's about as good as it's going to get. I'm going to take a little bit of this fire ash and do is going to roll this sucker up. I'm only going to use about half of that. I'm going to save the other half just in case. And you go like this. I'm going to roll that nice and tight. Now we're going to turn this into fire using nothing but elbow grease. But first I gotta get some fire starter and kindling and tinder and all that stuff. We got one shot. We don't want to blow it because we're not ready. All right I'm going to need some very fine dry tinder to take an ember and turn it into a flame and I like to cedar bark. You can see this right here. This is a cedar tree and it's got this fluffy bark here. It's like paper. Really fine paper almost. And it's got loose bits. You can just peel it off. It doesn't hurt the tree. But look at that. It'll take an ember and turn it into a flame so quick. This is great stuff to have if you like to use a ferrous rod or flint and steel. There we go. That is a perfect pile of tinder. You know it hasn't rained in three or four days so this tinder's bone dry and will work very well. That's why you kind of got to gather it and store it whenever you can. Because if it was dewy or snowy or been raining this stuff would be garbage. So you really you got to grab dry tinder and keep it dry whenever you can. I need something flat. I've got this flat log. I've got my little bit of cotton ball. Now we're going to rub it back and forth until we get smoke. All right here we go. Got a little ember there. Now I'm going to take this. I'll put this in there. I'm going to blow on it. There's a shark eating a T-Rex now. A shark's eating a T-Rex? Oh you are having a good time. One thing I'm kind of uncertain about is how I'm supposed to blow up this air mattress. I don't have a pump and well we'll just we're just going to see what happens. Looks like some sort of valve an electric pump is supposed to go to. Guess we can do this old-fashioned way. Oh I can already tell I'm not going to like this. Okay well before I sit on this I need to clear out every stick, every thorn, every twig. I can't have this thing popping on me. What happened to your foot? There you go. Hey Jake you want to see if you fit on this? We're gonna have to share this thing. It's gonna be a tight fit Jake. That nice? No these aren't very big. They'll be big enough for you though. I'm gonna climb under these blankets with Jacob and kind of get a feel for how much trouble we're in tonight. You like this? I think we're gonna have an interesting night's sleep. Well the weather forecast says we got some rain coming so I need to get that shelter up and that tarp secured but I forgot to buy any cordage. So uh we're gonna take my little box cutter here and see if we can't figure something out. Got this really thorny blackberry bush here. Oh these hurt. There we go there's some cordage. There we go teeny tiny little pup tent. It'll keep the rain and wind off us and maybe keep us a little bit warmer. Okay I had some grand plans for my cordage but uh turned out I didn't need it anyways. I got some of these free ketchup packets from the gas station here and we're gonna put them on our hot dogs and uh we're gonna roast ourselves some wieners. Can you give me a hot dog Jake? Yeah do you want to cook your own hot dog? Okay all right you want me to cook your hot dog for you? Yeah. Okay. Wiener no! Mmm campfire hot dogs are hard to beat. This has actually been a really low-key camp out with only 25 bucks worth of stuff. I haven't had to pack a lot of things or prepare fancy meals. It's uh actually been really uh really relaxing so I'm actually kind of kind of looking forward to this even though I'm a little nervous about being warm and dry. It's getting late so we are gonna get Nino's in bed. All right let's see how best to do this. You know what we need to do? We need to put some hand warmers. You want lots of hand warmers? Do you want one on your stomach? Yeah. Okay I thought you might want it. There you go. Well it's a little tight in here but uh it's warm so far but uh it's supposed to drop a good 15-20 degrees tonight and get below freezing so hopefully we'll stay warm. Think you'll be okay Jacob? Yeah. Yeah well we'll give it a try. It's about 10 o'clock and uh the rain started and it sounds really crazy on the tarp but uh we're dry and warm and Jacob's asleep so uh let's see how this goes. Well it's 2 a.m and it's been raining pretty much non-stop for the last four hours and uh it's starting to soak through the tarp. So far Jacob's still warm but man these blankets are getting wet. We'll see what happens. All right good night. Well it's 5 30 in the morning and the rain's finally let up and uh despite the leaking tarp and all that I'm pretty warm and dry except my feet they're just soaked and cold. Jacob's doing really well and uh so I'm gonna go try to get the fire started warm my feet up. I gathered up a bunch of that cedar bark yesterday and stored it away in my pocket so I've got some dry tinder thank goodness. I threw a bunch of big green logs on the fire because they wouldn't burn up that fast and it looks like that's paid off. I didn't think my hands were that cold but I'm trying to build this fire and they're just shaking. Oh yeah I do not fit on a twin mattress. That feels real good. I'm getting a little hungry so I'm gonna pop out some leftover hot dogs and went over to grab them and pour little Jacob's half off his mat so I scooted him back on. He seems to be sleeping soundly so that's good. Now that I'm warm and dry I am so well good morning it's a cold damn day. Jacob's still sleeping really good under the tarp and so I'm just gonna let him go as long as he wants. I think I might make some breakfast here in a little bit. Whoa there's a Jacob stirring. Is that my Jacob? Hi buddy. Are you cold? No. You warm? Would you like to come sit by the fire with me? Oh you have a good night's rest? Yeah. Oh good. Listen are you hungry? Do you want a hard-boiled egg? Yeah. Boots stayed relatively dry. Well my little ridgeline pole completely failed in the night and this whole setup was a failure. Pretty much all the stuff I did with the sticks and stuff completely failed and I just ended up using the tarp like a blanket. That's all right it worked but uh our little two dollar tarp kept us pretty dry. We really needed it. Oh oh my head is soaking wet. Yeah here we go. Here's your survival shark. Check it out. Last night we got some snow. I thought that rain sounded kind of hard. Yeah it really was wet and cold last night. All right Jake you ready to go home? All right let's do it. Well guys thanks for watching. We hope you enjoyed this. If you want to see more great outdoor camping and adventure videos from the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel don't forget to click subscribe and check out our camping and adventure playlist. We have about 40 different survival camping and camping videos on there. Some pretty cool stuff. We'll see you guys next Saturday. Thanks for watching and don't forget to click subscribe. If you like this video don't forget to check out the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel where we have hundreds of videos just like this and don't forget to click subscribe so you can see other great videos every Saturday morning. Hit that bell button you'll get notifications. Thanks for watching.