List: Packing List for Teaching in Bush Alaska
- A good hat
- A long winter coat with a rating of at least -30°
- A plunger
- A thick wool scarf
- Air mattress
- Air mattress pump
- Aluminum foil
- Bakeware set
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Blackout curtains or at least an eye-mask
- Boxed pasta
- Breadmaker – Bread is $6 per loaf!
- Brown sugar
- Bug spray
- Canned beans
- Canned soup
- Clothes hangers
- Coffee
- Coffee maker and filters
- Comforter and blankets
- Cooking knives
- Cooking pot set
- Cooking utensils set
- Corn starch
- Couch cover
- Cutting board
- DVD player/ PlayStation/ Xbox
- Dish drying rack
- Dish set
- Dish soap and sponge
- Drinking glasses
- Dryer sheets
- Electric mixer
- Expect to pay at least $6 per pound for chicken. A good tip is to supplement most of your protein with beans and lentils instead.
- Flour
- Food storage containers
- Get a kuspuk when you arrive
- Heavy-duty winter gloves
- Honey
- Hot mitt
- In some villages you do still have to spend $5,000 up-front on your year’s supply of food. In others, Amazon Prime and Target deliver year-round so you don’t have to.
- Ketchup
- Kitchen towels
- Laundry basket
- Laundry soap
- Lemon juice
- Long underwear or leggings to wear under jeans
- Lunch box and water bottle
- Mayonnaise
- Microwave
- Muckboots
- Mustard
- Old fashioned oats
- Olive oil
- Pack enough birth control to last the duration of your trip
- Pack plenty of your preferred feminine hygiene products https://herpackinglist.com/the-divacup-review/
- Paper towels
- Pillow Sheet set
- Pitcher
- Plastic wrap
- Plenty of sweaters to layer
- Q-tips
- Rain coat
- Replacement showerhead
- Rice Lentils
- Sad Light
- Salt & pepper
- Snow pants with a similar rating
- Soup stock
- Spices
- Stock up on basic medicine such as Tylenol, Ibuprofen, cough syrup, Pepto-Bismol, allergy meds
- Strainer/ colander
- Sugar
- Syrup
- Tea
- Teacher tote
- Toilet paper
- Toilet, shower, and counter cleaners
- Toothpicks
- Utensils set
- Vinyl shower curtains
- Vitamin D
- Waterproof snow boots with a similar rating
- Wax paper
- Yeast
- set aside a closet with a UV light to grow your own fruits and veggies, or stick with frozen and dried options.
