If you had no other choice, could you make your own clothes? If you had to could you bake a cake from scratch? Or if you had to could you grow your own food to feed your family?

These are all skills  that just 100 years ago were necessary life skills and required for everyday life. Modern technology has made these skills obsolete, but what would happen if our society was set back 100 years? 

I personally believe we are becoming a more intelligent society and depending on our brains rather than our Brawn. Could this mean we will someday evolve into those little green men we see on T.V?

I don’t know about that but everything we do today requires more cognitive skill than was required less than 100 years ago. Everything we do today is computerized, or technology does the heavy lifting for us.

Sometimes as we look forward and plan our future we need to take a look back and remember where we came from. The same technology that affords us these luxuries today could be taken away by an EMP, our failing infrastructure or even cyber terror which is becoming a greater possibility as the days go on.

If you truly had to use them, do you know any of the lost skills listed below? What if your life or the survival of your family depended on it?

SPP282 Replay: Preparedness Skills for Long Term Disasters

This is a replay of episode 86 Lisa and I did a few years ago. In this episode we didn’t talk about the “most important” prepping skills, but rather why these skills are important. 

We did talk about some of the important skills (listed below) but there are any others that depending on the scenario would become useful in a post collapse society. 

DIY projects to Learn

New Skills

DIY projects are a great way to practice and learn new skills. In the past I have done a few projects just to learn the how and why. 

The food dehydrator I made isn’t the greatest, but it taught me how the process works.