Saw this article from Popular Mechanics. Although they list out 31 items, below are what I think is more relevant. Have a read....
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Cast-Iron Skillet
It's not a specialty kitchen item,
which means you can cook almost anything in it. Because you never use
soap on it, it'll enrich your eggs and burgers and grilled cheese and
fish fillets and rib eyes with the earned flavors of a well-used grill.
It's impossible to break and can go in the oven. And it will last longer
than you. 
Chain Saw
Because you need something to prepare the tree for the ax.
Work Gloves
Without a good pair of work
gloves, you blister in five minutes of picking up an ax or a chain saw.
You need two pairs: rubber-coated for winter, leather for summer.
Claw Hammer
Because gravity. A good heavy hammer changes everything.
Lantern
An electric lantern makes your campsite look cold. This one makes it look warm.
Chef's Knife
With a good kitchen knife, you're
holding something heavy and well-balanced. The food yields to it.
Cooking becomes a craft, not a chore.
Air Pump
No electric model has improved on
the ease or reliability of a well-built, hand-powered floor pump. And
you can't take an electric one tubing on the river.
Jumper Cables
Not so much for you but for the stranger stuck in the parking lot.
Charcoal Grill
Gas grills are nice. We like the
gas grill. But the metal kettle is crucial. Not because charcoal makes
food taste better than a gas grill (it probably does, a little) but
because with a charcoal grill you can smoke things. And smoking things
can kill two, three, four hours. Hours of drinking and basting.
Beautiful.
Pocket Knife
One with a two-and-a-half-inch blade: big enough for most jobs, small enough not to weigh you down.
Multipurpose Tool
It's not that it's better than any
of the seventeen individual implements it contains. It's that its
seventeen implements are good enough that you don't have to carry any of
them individually.
Joy of Cooking
It's the Old Testament of
cookbooks. Low on bombast. Heavy on information. Lots of lists. It begat
all others. And if you want to cook it, it's in there, including
possum.
Waiter's Corkscrew/Bottle Opener/Knife
Corkscrews should not be expensive. Or require instruction manuals.
WD-40
If only for the door hinges. A man's house should involve no squeaking.
Carpenter's Level
Because with a small one, you can level a picture. With this one, you can level a deck.
Jack
Cars come with inferior jacks. You need a better one.
LED Flashlight
LED flashlights are blindingly
bright, shockproof, and, maybe best of all, run for a hundred hours on
four AA batteries, which is at least seventy more hours than an
incandescent bulb.
Ax
Because you need something to make firewood out of the tree that fell across your driveway.
Cordless Drill
Electric hand tools should be cordless. Eighteen volts — contractor grade — is all the power you'll ever need.
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