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Old World Skills

Old World Skills

Survival skills are skills that don't usually require an electrical outlet to use.
If you were faced with a disaster survival situation, what old world skills do you have that would help you survive? Better yet, what skills do you have that would make you a valuable asset to a community of survivors?

Just because one is skilled in today’s world of high tech and high finance, doesn’t mean that they will be a desirable survival partner. In fact, in a true survival situation, the homeless person on the street will have a better chance of surviving than the silver-spooned, trust-fund baby who has lived his entire life enjoying the benefits of living in a modern high-tech world.
What kind of old world skills should one learn in order to survive in a TEOTWAWKI situation? First of all, the basics necessities for survival are food, water and shelter. Based on that, there are skills and knowledge that will provide those basic necessities, such as:

  1. Fire building
  2. Building a shelter
  3. Distilling water
  4. Hunting/trapping
  5. Cooking over a fire
  6. Gardening
  7. Identification/gathering of edible wild plants
  8. Fishing
  9. Tanning hides
  10. Food preservation: canning, drying, salting, etc.

What other skills might come in handy in a world that no longer has access to electricity or modern manufacturing?

  1. Metal casting
  2. Carpentry
  3. Plumbing
  4. Electrician (using alternative power sources, such as water, wind, solar into electricity)
  5. Blacksmithing
  6. Animal husbandry
  7. Weaving
  8. Sewing (by hand)
  9. Knitting/crocheting
  10. Basket-weaving

This is just a limited list of old world skills that could greatly enhance a person’s chances of survival. Some of these are also skills that can be learned with a little practice, by taking a weekend course or by asking your grandpa to show you how to do something that his grandfather showed him.

Those who are trained electricians, plumbers, mechanics, engineers, doctors and veterinarians have skills that will make them a valuable asset to any survival group; although they would be advised to also learn how to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

  
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