Skills

What skills do you have? What skills do you want? Do something about it!

There's probably an infinte amount of skills out there that could be learned. What do you think would be useful to you and what do you want to do about it?

When I think if emergency preparedness, the first thing I think of is "where are my flashlights". The last thing I think of is "do I have the right knowledge to keep myself safe". Can I start a fire with no intentional fire starting tools? Can I get food without a grocery store? Can I negotiate to get an item when in need? I don't have a great script developed for this conversation. So I'm just going to list out some skills I think would be valuable in no particular order. 

1. Start a fire

   • Basics of a fire

   • Starting a fire with a lighter or match

   • With wet wood

   • With natural highly flammable things such as birch bark or sap wood

   • From a AAA or larger battery with steel wool or chewing gum paper

   • Two different ways of friction fire starting

   • With a flint and steel (with magnesieum for fun)

   • With a compression fire starter

2. Make food

   • Growing foods

   • Berries in the area

   • Fishing

   • Hunting

     1. Small game

   • Milling grains

   • Pemmican

   • Cook without tools

   • Prison style

3. Fix a small engine

4. Fix a car

5. Fix a flat tire

6. Jump start a car

7. Warm up a car to be able to start

8. Negotiate a good deal

9. Cashless barter

10. Tell what time of day it is without tools

11. Tell which way is north

    • At night

12. Swim

13. Make a pair of pants

14. Make a shirt

15. Pick a lock

16. Diagnose a 110v/220v househould circuit problem

17. How to repair a furnace

18. How to repair an AC unit

19. How to repair a refrigerator

20. How to travel through snow

21. How to remove snow

22. How to stay healthy without drugstore drugs

23. How to sell a home

24. How to deal with an estate

25. How to buy a home

26. How to do taxes

27. How to navigate public transit safetly

28. How to blend into a crowd

29. How to finish this list.