The Basics if times should get harder

The Basics if times should get harder

Here’s one list. Making up your own list is a good idea, too.

 

Clean water to drink

Enough food to eat

Waste method to preserve our health

Security for our Home and Family and the Basics

A.      Include physical safety and health

B.      Warmth in the cold season

Medical services the best we can

Religious services the best we can

Respect for our dead

Commitment to our children’s future

 

The general threat:

A.      Humans

B.      Wildlife

Really nice to have: 

A.      Entertainment

B.      Communications with our Loved Ones and Friends

C.      Weather forecasts

D.     Schooling

E.      Being able to have warm broth 24/7/365

F.       Transportation

G.     Adequate clothing

Solutions:

Work

Self-sufficiency

Education

Community

Golden Rule

Tough Love

Responsibility

Self-respect

Religion

Security

Rule of Law

Medical

Water

Food

Waste methods

Never assume

Prepare as best one can. Farmers often disc the fall and winter soil ahead of the next growing season as an example.

Disposing of our dead (including having a record)

Tools

Practical skills  

Use the alphabet for one method, like go from A to Z when listing peoples’ skills.  Sample skills can be bookkeeping to hunting to maintaining to military to religion to teaching to washing.  And never forgot barter and cooking and security and writing methods and wood cutting and splitting.