Prepping Skills

Having a wide range of skills is one of the most important Preps to have! You can spend a lot of time and money on hundreds of different Preps but if you don’t have the skill set to back them up in a situation you’ll soon find it all pretty useless!

Most of the time learning new skills is the cheapest part of Prepping (although professional training can get very pricey!). There are plenty of Prepper groups forming all around the Australia that are willing to share their information and training during their free time or via sites like Youtube, Forums, Blogs and Facebook.

When developing new skills remember The Rule Of 3’s:

• A person can live 3 minutes without air,
• 3 hours without shelter,
• 3 days without water and
• 3 weeks without food.

Some of the more important skills to focus on developing are:

Shelter making – You can survive 3 hours without shelter. Can you make a shelter in three hours? You should focus on building a shelter from improvised materials for different situations i.e. materials that may be available during a suburban disaster or materials you can source from the forest etc.

Water purification – You might not always have a trusty Life Straw with you when a situation arises so you need to develop skills to purify water without the aid of tools like the Life Straw.

Fire starting – make sure you learn several different techniques for starting a fire including utilising different tools and materials that you may have on hand and in multiple environments.

Out side of the main three listed above there are all kinds of handy skills to learn for during/after SHTF situation. The possibilities are endless and you’d be surprised at all the different views on what skills may be needed during or after an emergency. Some other important and popular examples are:

Self defence, gardening, canning, knot tying, first aid, sanitation, problem solving,

sewing or mending clothing, preserving food, and basic carpentry skills.

Now, attempting to learn all the suggested skills at once may be a bit daunting! Start with one or two and develop from there. Always have a plan for the new skills you are learning as this well help you stay focused on the goal/skill in mind.

Also, set small, achievable goals to keep you motivated. If you start too big too soon you may fail and discourage yourself in the process. For example a new Prepper friend of mine has set a goal for this month to learn 6 new knots that could be used in multiple Prepping situations.

Do you have any new skills that you’ve learn recently or do you have some goals to recommend?

Hope for the Best, Prep for the Worst!