Top 5 Survival Skills Review

     First I appreciate those who commented on the previous article on what Your Top 5 Survival Skills would be when the SHTF. Please keep in mind that there is no one perfect list that will fit everyone or every situation.

     Many people like to depend gadgets and gear and while they are very helpful and make many things easier I believe that we are now far too dependent on them. Gadgets and gear are really great for the short term and the novice but for longer natural and man-made disasters you will need skills that you just can't buy off the shelf. The following list are what some of the readers of this blog have contributed.

• Water purification methods
• Fire making 
• Shelter
• Food preservation
• Emotional skills, ways to stay calm and rational ( If you can't think then how can you function? )
• Building or repairing without power 
• Hunting skills 
• Marksmanship/ Security and being able to defend yourself and your family
• Medical training 
• Navigation

     The above list while very basic can be expanded upon to fit ones needs or situation. I would again like to thank those who contributed to the list, each contributor is a blog writer in their own right that you may or may not know and not all are in the survival field so if you have a chance please give them a visit.

• Sweepyjean and her site  http://sweepyjean.wordpress.com/
• BadVooDooDaddy and his site The Retreat
• Chinasyandrome and his sites  

THE AMERICAN MINUTEMAN
American Apocalypse
Enemy of the state

• Mr.B and his sites

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Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor

Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a "discriminatory and disproportionate" European law.

With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the UK for decades. Rest of article here

In they article they site adverse health affects that can sometimes happen well how about the government approved drugs that have killed people too, I think the real burr is that the drug companies don't own the natural ones.  If I want to put something into my body that's my decision so long as it does not affect anyone else. The only thing this is about is control. Damn it next thing they will tell us is that we can't pick our own noses.. 

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     I was checking out the web today and looking for a few stocking stuffers and I wanted to center it with the hidden motive of killing two birds with one stone. I.E. giving a present that would have something to do with preparedness and be a gift as well. I have found that my boys have an innate curiosity with several of the first aid kits that I have stocked around in many places, my boys are in the stage where cuts and blood seem "cool" yeah and chicks dig scars or so I am told. Being Dad I have decided to see about getting the boys their own mini kits while preserving mine for real and more important needs. The kit shown in the picture ( click on for more detail ) has enough in it to keep their curiosity and the cost will not break the bank ($3.50) I have added a few extra band-aids also as it seems they are pretty popular. I have taken the opportunity with the boys when they get hurt from the minor scrapes and cuts to show them how to properly clean and disinfect them and then bandage them ( usually that band-aid ). I take away from the opportunity a moment for them to learn something useful that they will use for a good long time, I also have used it  to get them into a thinking frame of mind on how having certain supplies can be of importance in certain situations.

The link below is where I found the mini kit, other advanced kits are also available.


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