[Kartographer]

1.Prepare for the worst.
2. Learn and train your mind to expect the totally unexpected.
3. Learn to live meager.
4. Find personal motivators to continue on.
5. Understand the world and potential disasters that await.
6. Make plans and stick to them.
7. Understand how you’ll react.
8. Understand the psychology of desperate people.
9. Be clever and inventive.
10. Learn and condition yourself into a survival mentality.
11. Know where you are going.
12. Learn how to maintain light at night.
13. Learn how to hide.
14. Maintain proper hygiene.
15. How to dispose of waste and proper sanitation.
16. Learn to control pest and other vermin.
17. Understand radiation and fallout and how to protect yourself.
18. Learn how to forecast the weather.
19. Learn first aid.
20. Learn about nutrition.
21. Learn to keep body temperature uniform.
22. How to start and maintain a fire.
23. Obtain water and purify it.
24. Learn how to grow food and or find it.
25. Learn how to defend yourself and be willing to do it.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!

[Revolting cat!]

21. Learn to keep body temperature uniform.

Where do you get one? Army/Navy surplus stores?

[Jack Hammer]

Let’s not forget one that is absolutely indispensible: Develop a high tolerance for the meddlesome interference of utter idiots - especially government bureaucrats and self-inflated commissars.

But I repeat myself.

[Revolting cat!]

18. Learn how to forecast the weather.

I'm learning from my perfessor!

[An American!]

Not the list of 25 I would make, but not too bad. For example, I am not sure 9 is appropriate as a must know skill? 12 and 22 are basically the same and whats with 16...anyway...

I think the prerequisites are basically, attitude, planning, water, fire, food (hunting, planting and gathering), defensive techniques and offensive techniques. Look at the primary skills semi-nomadic people groups have for guidance.

Other key skills that are able to be learned and useful would be basic blacksmithing, woodworking and a basic knowledge of chemistry.

[struggle]

26. Go to Wal-Mart and buy some more ammo with cash.

[Revolting cat!]

14. Maintain proper hygiene.

As long as you luv me baby, you don't have to wash!

[DLfromthedesert]

And why do we want to even envision in living in such an dark environment?
You actually believe this is living?

[DuncanWaring]

One more, from Admiral James Bond Stockdale, who spent over seven years checked-in at the Hanoi Hilton:

"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

[Lex Gabba]

A human being should be able to:
change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Lazarus Long

good advice then and always

[randog]

13. Learn how to hide.

Check.

[editor-surveyor]

> How to saddle and ride a horse

> How to slaughter and bleed an animal

> How to keep fish fresh after catching them

> How to deliver a baby

> How to make radio antennas

> How to patch a car tire

> How to mount a tire on a wheel

> How to make a septic system

> How to trouble shoot a small gasoline engine

> How to make and use a solar still

> How to make and use wax wicks for fire starting

> How to adjust a sprained ankle or wrist

> How to stop a heart attack with cayenne pepper

> How to stop an asthma attack with lobelia weed or pipe tobacco

> How to stop bleeding with cayenne powder

[QualityMan]

“Understand the psychology of desperate people.”

This is an interesting topic.....links?

thanks