Comments on: Make Yourself More Self Sufficient: 7 Skills to Learn & 4 Bad Habits To Ditch https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/make-yourself-more-self-sufficient/ Chance Favors The Well Prepared Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joe https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/make-yourself-more-self-sufficient/#comment-46523 Mon, 28 May 2018 14:38:25 +0000 http://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/?p=3231#comment-46523 Mechanical aptitude, rebuild even a simple lawn mower engine. Then, build a wood/coal gasifier and run said lawnmower engine with wood gasifier. In the event of a complete collapse of infrastructure there won’t be much gas, diesel, etc left for long. Even if there are stores of it in the millions of barrels how will you get to it?

]]> By: Daniel Gaetzke https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/make-yourself-more-self-sufficient/#comment-44470 Sat, 31 Mar 2018 15:51:50 +0000 http://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/?p=3231#comment-44470 Every one should how to skin, gut, cut up, and cook animals common to their area.

]]> By: Joyce Johnson https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/make-yourself-more-self-sufficient/#comment-40018 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 02:18:15 +0000 http://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/?p=3231#comment-40018 I feel like everyone should learn how to swim and to drive various vehicles.

]]> By: Andy https://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/make-yourself-more-self-sufficient/#comment-10675 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:14:58 +0000 http://www.thebugoutbagguide.com/?p=3231#comment-10675 The one thing that I would add that I think is a summation of many of the things in this article is: find a self-sufficient “job.” What I mean by this is committing oneself to learning a distinct skill set that enables you to grasp a niche position in society when disaster strikes. There are some jobs that are necessary to ALL societies no matter the level of societal sophistication or technology. Jobs centered around food, water, warmth, shelter, health/well-being, and self-protection/self-defense are at the root of every society. Regardless of whether that means knowing how to build a bomb or a bow and arrow, the need for that niche will still be there.

As for myself, I have chosen to fill the niche of post-disaster medicine and to prepare myself for such, I have taken, and continue to take, courses in naturalistic medicine. Antibiotics and anesthesia may one day be gone or beyond our reach in a post-disaster scenario, but people will still need healers and caretakers.

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