Practice

Practice

            Sports people practice, too.

       So why shouldn't regular people who choose to try survive, practice if they can?

As a general rule, practice mostly to maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. Just how to do that is up to you. This can be difficult and is fraught with self-doubt, especially if you are thinking of a team or Family and Friends, and not just an individual.

Here's some obvious things to put on someone's list.

1.     Bake some bread.

2.     Can some food.

3.     Perform simple first aid.

4.     Manage a home and garden defense.

5.     Grow some food in pots.

6.     Make and store some clean water.

7.     Dig a hole for peeing and pooping.

8.     Make some electricity.

9.     Learn about EMP.

10.  Learn to barter and haggle.

11.  Home school some kids.

12.  Be a religious lay leader.

13.  Organize a survival area, to include cooking, eating, bathroom,

sleeping, cemetery, and inventory.

14.  Cook and serve some food using realistic  means.

15.  Prepare an  animal to eat. Chickens make a good first practice.

16.  Trap or snare an animal.

17.  Learn about radio.

18.  Repair or build something.

19.  Prepare a stack of burn-able wood.

20.  Cut someone's hair.

21.  Sew a clothing tear.

22.  Repair a damaged shoe or boot.

23.  Organize a library for both entertainment and knowledge.

24.  Plan an initial pandemic defense.

25.  Boil enough water for a Family bath.

26.  Start a Family Tree.

27.  Put up a clothes line.

28.  Read a story to someone.

29.  Play some games with others.

30.  Make a first sundial.

31.  Tune the RAM. (Check the RAM weekly or more often to insure it is pumping).

32.  Burn the trash (weather permitting).

33.  Read and review  written plans.

34.  Better organize already written knowledge plans, like how to make soap, or acorn flour.

35.  Check out optics.

36.  Recharge batteries.

37.  Collect a bucket of coal.