You mean band-aids, right? Not bandages? I got a free bandage after I broke my arm, I carried it in my schoolbag for months until I got hit by a car (and at the time, I didn’t even have my backpack on me, I had to walk home and fix myself up), what a waste of effort! Don’t EDC things you don’t expect to use daily. Consider taking like 3-4 of each type of pill instead of the whole bottle. Consider leaving the screwdriver- you already have 2 on your swiss army knife. Strike-Anywhere matches suck, use waterproof matches or a ferro rod instead.
I think hatchets are not that useful. If you are going to be home, just get a real, full size axe. If you are going to be on the move, there is very little a hatchet can do that a knife won’t. The best reasons to have an axe are splitting wood and felling trees. If you don’t expect to be doing either of those, dont bother- for splitting small amounts of wood (for example, to coax a fire out of wet wood) a knife is OK, and I have never had such a hard time finding wood that I have had to fell live trees- although I have used a hatchet to chop down dead standing wood (it wasn’t my hatchet).
If you want to purify water, use a Sawyer Mini filter ($20, tiny, you can even stick it in-line in your hydration bladder, thats what I do. Makes drinking kinda hard but gathering water is effortless. Also if you use it in the winter you have to watch out for it freezing- the water will expand and break the filter) or Aquamira chlorine dioxide drops ($10, a little more fussy to use, you have to mix 2 chemicals and wait 30 minutes.)
If you want a “just in case” shelter, buy a poncho-tarp.Probably the sanest choice for carrying daily, it’s raingear (something that you might actually use regularly gasp!) and a tiny shelter. For prolonged use, get a normal-size tarp, at least 8’ by 8’. More than a couple nights in a row under the world’s smallest plastic roof will drive you mad.
