"Smootchie 101" is a list of one hundred and one useful things you can use a Smootchie™ for. The list is comprised of various uses ranging from survival tools such as kindling for a fire, to many different sorts of filtering and odor reduction. Some of the uses listed require more than one individual Smootchie™ (ie a pack of 10). Please note the Disclaimer at the bottom of the page. (Some items have been removed from Smootchie 101 subject to Health Canada and FDA approval.
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Adsorbs up to 99% of the scents and odors produced by breathing. 80% of the human scent-stream is breath related
Particulate filter reduces allergens (for people with environmental allergies)
Helps filter pollutants, dust and contaminants (for overall wellbeing)
Keeps you alert on stand as you are breathing clean filtered air.
Helps filter out odors during field dressing process (helps control gag factor)
Keeps your temperature regulated as your heat from breathing is contained, yet highly breathable for warm climates
Keeps the sound of your breathing and coughing muffled down so as not to scare away your quarry
Helps to prevent you from coughing period as you are no longer breathing dry air
Provides camouflage breakup for your face.
Helps to control wind burn and frostbite on your face
Helps to control chapped lips
Allows hunters who wear glasses a means of covering their face without fogging their glasses.
Emergency fire starter (kindling)
Use for Odor adsorbing insoles for boots
Use to clean your knife and/or hands off after field dressing process
Emergency water container
Emergency first aid gauze to stop bleeding
Hand cloth
Camera or binocular lens cleaner
Light blocking sleeping aid for eyes as well as emergency eye patch
Car freshener (adsorbs odors in your car)
Dust cloth
Hunting closet filter and odor adsorber
Emergency hat to block the sun’s harmful rays
Water-repellant Camera protector and camouflage cover
Crumple individual plastic packaging to imitate squirrel rustling in leaves for still hunting
Individual Packaging can be used to pick up and store scent wicks
Scent pad for decoy (after carbon is spent)
Scent dispersal system (after carbon is spent)
Emergency toilet paper
Tissue for blowing nose
Flashlight dimmer
Can be tied together to make clothing
Can be used to plug a hole in a canoe
Quick oven mitt for pulling a hot can of beans off of a fire (caution)
Food dish
Pull apart, use black layer to make sun glasses
Wind break for face while riding ATV or motorcycle
Cold compress for fevers
Make a wind sock to determine wind direction
Tear apart to use as rifle cleaning patches
Tear apart to use white filter media as a trail marker
Extract wire to use as a tie wire (twist tie) or electrical repair device.
Extract wire to make a floating compass
Extract wire to make a fish hook
Extract wire to make a snare
Extract wire to use as a cauterizing tool
Extract wire, heat it up to burn a precision hole in your fingernail to relieve pressure if you have suffered an impact. (ouch)
Particulate filter reduces allergens (for people with environmental allergies)
Helps filter pollutants, dust and contaminants (for overall wellbeing)
Keeps you alert on stand as you are breathing clean filtered air.
Helps filter out odors during field dressing process (helps control gag factor)
Keeps your temperature regulated as your heat from breathing is contained, yet highly breathable for warm climates
Keeps the sound of your breathing and coughing muffled down so as not to scare away your quarry
Helps to prevent you from coughing period as you are no longer breathing dry air
Provides camouflage breakup for your face.
Helps to control wind burn and frostbite on your face
Helps to control chapped lips
Allows hunters who wear glasses a means of covering their face without fogging their glasses.
Emergency fire starter (kindling)
Use for Odor adsorbing insoles for boots
Use to clean your knife and/or hands off after field dressing process
Emergency water container
Emergency first aid gauze to stop bleeding
Hand cloth
Camera or binocular lens cleaner
Light blocking sleeping aid for eyes as well as emergency eye patch
Car freshener (adsorbs odors in your car)
Dust cloth
Hunting closet filter and odor adsorber
Emergency hat to block the sun’s harmful rays
Water-repellant Camera protector and camouflage cover
Crumple individual plastic packaging to imitate squirrel rustling in leaves for still hunting
Individual Packaging can be used to pick up and store scent wicks
Scent pad for decoy (after carbon is spent)
Scent dispersal system (after carbon is spent)
Emergency toilet paper
Tissue for blowing nose
Flashlight dimmer
Can be tied together to make clothing
Can be used to plug a hole in a canoe
Quick oven mitt for pulling a hot can of beans off of a fire (caution)
Food dish
Pull apart, use black layer to make sun glasses
Wind break for face while riding ATV or motorcycle
Cold compress for fevers
Make a wind sock to determine wind direction
Tear apart to use as rifle cleaning patches
Tear apart to use white filter media as a trail marker
Extract wire to use as a tie wire (twist tie) or electrical repair device.
Extract wire to make a floating compass
Extract wire to make a fish hook
Extract wire to make a snare
Extract wire to use as a cauterizing tool
Extract wire, heat it up to burn a precision hole in your fingernail to relieve pressure if you have suffered an impact. (ouch)
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Extract wire, fold it in half to use as a fingernail cleaner
Use elastics for rope or fishing line
Use elastics or torn up tied mask to make a tourniquet to stop bleeding
Use elastic as a candle wick if you have any accelerant
Use elastic as a candle or a slow burning fuse
Use mask on face and exposed areas to protect from black flies
Use as a towel to wisk water off your body if you fall through the ice and need to dry off quick
Tie two smootchies together to make ear muffs
Makes a good scent and some what water repellant container for matches or pieces of food (meat)
Use elastics and wire as a needle and thread
Tear apart to access white filter material for writing paper to leave a message
Hang in a tree to use as a rainwater collection system
Roll up to put in your mouth as a biting pad to deal with painful first aid techniques (like sawing off your arm) (Major Ouch)
Use a smootchie as an emergency toothbrush
Use wire as a toothpick
Use to wipe mud from boots before storing boots away from a hunt
Use as a silencing device to shim up a squeaky tree stand
Use as a breathable worm container lid when fishing by placing over a jar then securing with elastics
Use as an ice pack holding compress
Use to make a sling weapon with a two pieces of rope
Use as a tent repair patch
Hang used smootchies in tree branches to create a leafy breakup
Put in dryer to adsorb clothing odors
Use as water resistant knee pads while still hunting or gardening
Use as camo cover for your hand if you drop a glove from your tree stand
Use elastics to make a friction bow to start a fire
Use as a camouflage beer can or bottle insulation wrap/cooler
Tear apart to expose white material to use as a surrender flag
Use plastic bag Smootchie™ is packed in to stop suction on a puncture wound of the lungs
Rip apart to expose white filter media, write a daily log and tie together to make a custom diary
Burn elastics to create a hot glue substance for making unexpected water repellant repairs
Use elastics to make a makeshift bow and wire to install head to arrow shaft
Could be used for emergency clothing
Use elastics for an emergency hair tie
Use wire for bug cooking device in an emergency (yuck)
Use for grasping, hot or sharp objects. (caution)
Use wire as a lock pick
Use wire as a safety pin
Use elastic as a shoelace
Stick wire in ground for use as a makeshift sundial to tell the time
Tear apart to expose white filter material and use as high contrast to flag down an airplane
Visor to keep sun out of your eyes
Black carbon layer could be used to filter water.
Pull Smootchie elastics apart tight and you have an approximate two foot measuring reference
Disposable dish cloth at camp
Disposable Weapons cleaning
Use around the house for drywall repairs, gardening, etc.
Use to camouflage the headlights and tailights of your ATV
Helps to purify carbon dioxide expelled from your breath to prevent the attraction of biting insects
Use elastics for rope or fishing line
Use elastics or torn up tied mask to make a tourniquet to stop bleeding
Use elastic as a candle wick if you have any accelerant
Use elastic as a candle or a slow burning fuse
Use mask on face and exposed areas to protect from black flies
Use as a towel to wisk water off your body if you fall through the ice and need to dry off quick
Tie two smootchies together to make ear muffs
Makes a good scent and some what water repellant container for matches or pieces of food (meat)
Use elastics and wire as a needle and thread
Tear apart to access white filter material for writing paper to leave a message
Hang in a tree to use as a rainwater collection system
Roll up to put in your mouth as a biting pad to deal with painful first aid techniques (like sawing off your arm) (Major Ouch)
Use a smootchie as an emergency toothbrush
Use wire as a toothpick
Use to wipe mud from boots before storing boots away from a hunt
Use as a silencing device to shim up a squeaky tree stand
Use as a breathable worm container lid when fishing by placing over a jar then securing with elastics
Use as an ice pack holding compress
Use to make a sling weapon with a two pieces of rope
Use as a tent repair patch
Hang used smootchies in tree branches to create a leafy breakup
Put in dryer to adsorb clothing odors
Use as water resistant knee pads while still hunting or gardening
Use as camo cover for your hand if you drop a glove from your tree stand
Use elastics to make a friction bow to start a fire
Use as a camouflage beer can or bottle insulation wrap/cooler
Tear apart to expose white material to use as a surrender flag
Use plastic bag Smootchie™ is packed in to stop suction on a puncture wound of the lungs
Rip apart to expose white filter media, write a daily log and tie together to make a custom diary
Burn elastics to create a hot glue substance for making unexpected water repellant repairs
Use elastics to make a makeshift bow and wire to install head to arrow shaft
Could be used for emergency clothing
Use elastics for an emergency hair tie
Use wire for bug cooking device in an emergency (yuck)
Use for grasping, hot or sharp objects. (caution)
Use wire as a lock pick
Use wire as a safety pin
Use elastic as a shoelace
Stick wire in ground for use as a makeshift sundial to tell the time
Tear apart to expose white filter material and use as high contrast to flag down an airplane
Visor to keep sun out of your eyes
Black carbon layer could be used to filter water.
Pull Smootchie elastics apart tight and you have an approximate two foot measuring reference
Disposable dish cloth at camp
Disposable Weapons cleaning
Use around the house for drywall repairs, gardening, etc.
Use to camouflage the headlights and tailights of your ATV
Helps to purify carbon dioxide expelled from your breath to prevent the attraction of biting insects
Disclaimer: We at Kirschner Safety Products Inc. assume no risk expressed or implied by using any of the above listed ideas that may result in any injury to persons and or damage to personal property. Use at your own discretion.