Top 8 survival skills you can easily learn now (and are inexpensive)

Before the grid goes down, learning these skills now can make all the difference to ensure you have a fighting chance when it's up to you to provide for your own well-being.

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[LouBalestriere]

1. Gardening & raising small livestock (Chicken & Rabbit)
2. Water collection & Purification
3. First Aid
4. Self Defense (Both Martial Arts & Firearm)
5. Health & Wellness (Diet & Exercise)
6. Sanitation (Includes composting)
7. Fire starting & maintenance
8. Shelter Creation & Maintenance


9. Navigation - Compass & Primitive Navigation

[Olerus]

i grew up at my granny, she lives near a forest, i learned how to recognize mushrooms and medicinal plants especially for tea, how to start a fire and maintain it, how to raise goats (make cheese), how to boil rain water from a barel or from snow :))....and some other few things :D

[stevenpenczu]

I think that our time is limited. I just got this gut feeling lately. Can’t explain it. Everyone needs to be prepared. It’s coming sooner than we think 💭

[teridemola]

Learning to sew, knit, and crochet are very important.

[reginapugh]

Watching this AFTER our elrctric grid in TX had gone out for several days. I don't want to ever have my family at the mercy or someone else's negligence. We're blessed to have made it through this horrible ordeal

[boyecreativegroupllc]

Using a computer in a survival situation to keep track of inventory? I would think a pencil and a notebook would be the norm.

[mariannep]

I think also sewing can be useful to shorten and lengten clothes and fix them in other ways you must have that skill.

[theIAMofME]

I'm glad you put gardening at the top of the list. People think they can just buy some seeds and throw them in some dirt and things will grow. NOT true. It takes many seasons before you can really grow some decent amounts of food. Then, saving seed is a whole other ball game. You can't save seeds if you grow hybrids or many different varieties of a the same thing. Yes, you can possibly grow something from them. BUT, you have no idea which type of fruit it's going to be. I recommend the book Seed To Seed. It gives way more info also than just seed saving.

[ManualdeSobrevivencia]

Heard Canadian Prepper talk about a book called Survival Medicine Handbook and I became really interested in it since it is knowledge meant for when help is not coming. Very useful imo

[reyndor]

After reading a number of the comments I wonder why people put so much focus on skills for individual survival and not skills that will make you an asset to a group.

1) Foraging (food and medicinal plants)
2) Mechanical/Engineering (Things are going to break and will need to be fixed.)
3) Animal husbandry/Veterinarian skills (It takes some knowledge to take care of a cow)
4) Medicine production (How many people know how to make antibiotics)
5) Woodworking (This kind of speaks for itself)
6) Organization (You need to have everyone pulling in the same direction)
7) Food Preservation (Need to be able to save food for winter)
8) Distillation of Spirits (Got to keep up the morale of the group)

[edwardfletcher]

Best cooking show ever.
Jamies 15 min meals series !
Main courses and desserts, fantastic flavours and simple to make.

[susanswanson]

San Francisco Fire Dept. also has a NERT program (Neighborhood Emergency Rescue Training) this was established after the earthquake of '89. They teach first aid, how to search buildings and mark a searched building, first aid as well as how to put out a fire with a fire extinguisher.

[matthewnorton]

For the cooking aspect check out Kent Rollins he's a cowboy trail cook that's recipes are excellent and shows how to use fire and cast iron to cook on the trail... enjoy

[justalurkr]

In the immortal words of my first roommate: if you can read, you can cook.

[josecolon]

1. Survival hygiene
2. Basic Hunting technics
3. Hand to hand combat
4. First aid and advanced herbal medicine
5. Basic Fitness
6. At least basic small arms training and combat weapon familiarization
7. Shelter construction
8. Wet, cold and hot environment survival
9. Edible plants recognition
10. Escape, evasion, land navigation and basic radio communication skills

[valerieannrumpf]

Learning how to repair various items, such as clothing, basic household items, ect, so that you have something to use for yourself or trade.

[nikolasspade]

My eight skills for prepping. In addition to the skills mentioned above
1 communication, not just to immediate family but to organize those around you.
2 apothecary or herbal medicine. If someone knows how to make medicine then diseases can be maintained and mangaed.
3 scouting and land navigation. If you have to leave then you need to know how to negotiate terrain.
4. Negotiations. Having things to barter is good but if you dont know when to holdem or foldem it may cost you everything.
5 evasion. This is an underated skill but is important. Its way easier to go around an armmed group of thugs than it is to shoot it out with them.
6 construction. If you have to fortify either your home or your community just having a hammer isnt going to cut it. You need to know how and when to swing the hammer.
7comms. This is different than communication. Cause if the grid gose back up or if you are able to make alliance's via radio. Then you are better off than those who have to rely on a runner.
8 strategy. Cant stress this enough. If you try to shelter in place or bug out and dont have a clear veiw of a goal. Then you will slip up.

[FazeliSulaiman]

learning how to identify trees is useful too

[hmac]

I am so glad I grew up on a farm and that my dad was a hardass.

[sinned]

Freeze drying is great, but remember dehydrated and freeze dried foods require water. Storing water and having a water catchment system will be necessary.