Couponing for Survival
For instance if you shop with coupons, you are already practicing a
survival skill that is helping you survive economically. However, did
you know that you can use that skill to begin to stock up for those days
when all the coupons in the world won’t put food on grocery store
shelves?
Hunting Skills
Do you go hunting? Those are real survival skills that you may never
have related to actual survival. However, knowing how to hunt, clean
what you’ve killed and cook it over a fire could be very helpful in a
situation where the only meat on your table will depend on your ability
to hunt.
Wilderness Survival Skills
How about camping or backpacking? Being able to find your way in the
woods, read a compass, build a campfire, or build a temporary shelter
are skills that could help if you have to bug out from your home or have
to travel to your survival retreat on foot.
Gardening
Do you garden? Then you have the skill necessary to produce fresh
vegetables to stave off starvation. If you don’t yet know how to save
seeds to use next year or the importance of using heirloom seeds, then
you have a few more things to learn, but you’re on your way.
Other Survival Skills
What are some other real survival skills that could be beneficial in a TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) event?
- Food preservation - canning, dehydrating, salting and smoking
- Sewing
- Trapping
- Tanning
- Raising livestock
- Bartering
- Foraging - plant identification
- Herbal medicine
- Survival medicine - first aid, dentistry, emergency medicine
Skills Require Tools
Not very many people can be dropped into the middle of a survival
situation with just a pocketknife and survive for very long. Most real
survival skills are going to require a few tools. For instance, if you
plan on hunting for your food, you’re going to need at least a firearm
of some kind. If you plan on canning, you’ll need a pressure canner,
jars…lots of jars… and lids…lots and lots of lids.
The time to acquire survival tools and gear is now, before the poo hits the fan.
Short-Term Survival Gear
Not all disasters are long-term, change-your-life-forever type of
disasters. In fact, most disasters are temporary disruptions of your
life, like a temporary power outage caused by a winter blizzard. In the
case of the blizzard, you probably won’t have to leave your home, unless
you don’t have a way to heat your home.
So add a woodstove or kerosene heater to your list of survival supplies.
Other short-term disasters that may cause you to flee your home are
earthquakes, floods, wildfires, hurricanes and nuclear incident. With
some of these disasters, you don’t have a lot of time to put together a
few things to take with you. In that case, you are going to want to have
prepared, in advance, a bug out bag. Other names for these types of
grab-n-go bags are:
- 72-hour kit
- Disaster survival kit
- Survival fanny pack
- Emergency medical kit
- Hurricane survival kit
Long-Term Survival Gear
Even if you plan on gardening and hunting to put food on your table, you
are going to want to have some food put by to get you through to the
point where your garden is producing or to get you through those times
when hunting isn’t that profitable.
In addition to food, have you considered where the water is going to
come from if the power goes out permanently? Unless you have your own
well with a solar-powered pump, then this is something you need to be
thinking about. In addition to storing water, you might want to consider
water filters, installing a rain catchment system and learning how to
distill water using the power of the sun, another of those real survival
skills that could come in handy.
Well…you get the idea. If you plan to survive any type of emergency or
disaster you will need some real survival skills, in addition to having a
stockpile of gear and tools to help you make it through a long-term
survival scenario.
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