Wow, stuck for several decades? I'll be so old by then someone might have to bring me my marbles, lol, remember the story of Peter Pan?

#1  I would have to have something to read.

A tome
of poetry, maybe Keats, or Shakespere's entire works, (that include poems).

#2   Next, I would have to have music but with no electricity or items available to make a battery I think I would have to make do with a musical instrument like

a guitar.

#3  Lastly, some sort of game would be nice since cards, drawing tic-tac-toe, checkers, chess and hang-man in the sand would get old in a hurry. It's also not any fun to play these by yourself.

a huge trunk of clothes
with everything in my size, of course and from the 18th-21st centuries.

like i said on the old one (that got locked by the way)
my iPod (to entertain me)
a Swiss army knife (so i can make a shelter and get food)
and the book "how to get off a deserted island" (so i can get off the island!)

I'd love to bring my dog too so i could have some company but you said we could only have three things (i 'spoes i could always scratch a face into a coconut with my Swiss army knife :)

ugh im not a survivor. id probably take that guy in the pic with me and make him a leader. he will decide on the 2 other things we should take and tell me what to do there to survive together XD

if i cant do that i think id take plenty of food and water in addition to that guy

because nobody misses you and will come look for you...

Ain't that the truth.

In honor of this being the first ever of these "desert island" threads with a decent opening post, I'm going to actually answer this thread somewhat seriously.

1. A fishing pole. For obvious reasons.

2. A Watercone to separate the salt from the water.

3. A lighter, because there's no way in hell I'd ever be able to light a fire using two sticks.

And please, nobody say that they're going to bring a boat or an airplane or something along those lines. That joke got old before it was even funny.

@ MrDayC

Please, elabrorate on the size of both the island and the ship that was wrecked because this would determine the quality of the survivability of "several decades"? Does this island have a waterfall or some other source of fresh water? Is their plenty of food to forage? Do we have enough of the survivor gear available to salvage off of the ship?

@ Ernie15

I didn't mention the obvious survival choices because I expected to be able to steal, I mean salvage those from the ship. Thanks for mentioning what should naturally come first when shipwrecked.

1. A boat
2. A weeks supply of water.
3. A weeks supply of food.

That should be plenty to get off the island and back home on my own.

lets see, a swiss army knife to have tools and a weapon, a hammock becauze after i created a shelter there is no way that i sleep on the ground (that and i like hammocks) and last but not least, a flare gun with ammo in case the one of the boat got broken. if i see a ship after some decades i can use the flare gun to get rescued. oh, not to mention that i would loot the boat or what is left of it...

Heck with a boat.

1. My girlfriends
2. An unlimited supply of sustaining materials (food, water)
3. An air-comditioned condo w/ electricity, hot and cold running water, a 36" flatscreen, a sauna, and 10 bedrooms.