Since, for many, hunting knives and shotguns are not readily available, there are many household items that can be quite useful for bashing a zombie’s brains out.
Tool Shed: Raid the tool shed for shovels, rakes and axes. These should be perfect for slicing through a rotting brain and are in plentiful supply, since many may be overlooked in the search for the ‘more useful’ guns. Even hammers and battery operated drills can be carried in backpacks and are very useful for close combat, although beware of splatter which may cause infected blood to enter your bodily crevices. Chainsaws may seem appealing, but are far too loud and simply dangerous since blood will pour everywhere; only use as a last resort.
Kitchen: Next to a shed, this place is a mother-lode of quiet, easily accessible weapons. Kitchen knives and cleavers are a must; even egg beaters can gouge past eyeballs and mush up a zombie brain. Even cutlery such as forks is important, because just managing to damage the brain should injure the zombie for enough time to enable you to escape.
Bedroom: You know that trophy you won for ‘participation’? Drive that into a zombie’s skull and it shall be worth far more than the time it sat neglected on your desk as a constant, embarrassing reminder. If zombies are crowding the garden or any place under your window, drop drawers and lamps onto their head. These items are heavy enough to inflict quite a bit of damage and won’t matter to you once you are able to leave the zombie-infested area to a safer place.
Bathroom: Don’t ignore the use of scissors and razors, but these may cause quite a lot of splatter. Somehow, people forget the damage the lid of the back of the toilet can cause; with one, decent swing a zombie can have a completely flattened head. Shards of glass from mirrors are rather dangerous to wield, but a good thrust will lodge the shard into a brain and incapacitate the reanimated dead for good.
Living Room: Use the corners of family pictures to hurl into zombie brains, this is not a time to be sentimental. No matter how much your mother may scream, use any precious statuettes and jam it into any head area that you can reach. Sofas and chairs may be rather heavy to lift, but they are great blockades for a quick escape.
