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More Survival Skills Your Great-Grandparents Knew

To read the story referenced, “10 Survival Skills Your Great-Grandparents Knew (That Most Of Us Have Forgotten),” click here.

I like the idea of victory gardens. Every time I drive around my neighborhood I see all of these yards of just grass that could grow food. Also, everyone should learn to make or purchase a non-electric water distiller to enable you to make any kind of water drinkable.

Claud

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How about navigational skills? Pretty sure your GPS isn’t going to work.

Chris

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What about cooking – things like churning butter, making pies, cakes, bread from scratch, plus having to cook in a fireplace or a Dutch oven with no power or microwave? After Katrina hit and we had no power for weeks we were OK because I have a lot of these cooking skills and we were not one of the people on my block who had to visit the restaurants or friends that had power just to eat.

Sue