{"id":21815,"date":"2016-09-24T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21815"},"modified":"2016-09-24T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T16:57:38","slug":"adapt-or-die-why-you-need-more-skills-and-less-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21815","title":{"rendered":"Adapt or die: Why you need more skills and less stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adapt or die: Why you need more skills and less stuff<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"adaptPreppers have a bad reputation for hoarding gear, stocking up on\u00a0a year\u2019s-worth (or more) of food<\/a>,\u00a0and packing bug out bags that could supply a platoon.\u00a0In almost all cases, these preppers would be screwed if there were a disaster or SHTF.<\/p>\n

Gear and supplies are useless unless you still have it when you need it, and as I\u2019ve experienced several times in the military \u2013 in emergency situations, things don\u2019t usually go as planned.<\/p>\n

There is an inherent cost associated with collecting stuff that extends past the initial purchase.\u00a0Buying means researching, storing, protecting, repairing, maintaining, carrying, and several other \u2018ings.<\/p>\n

The precept of knowledge weighing nothing has been a long-term idea in my thinking. I love learning how to do things and how to adapt my surroundings by adapting what I have available for new purposes.<\/p>\n

Also, if \u00a0something like a regional disaster hits your area, you may be surviving with\u00a0only what you have on you<\/a>\u00a0at that\u00a0moment and all that stuff you collected will be useless.<\/p>\n

Now don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m not saying you shouldn\u2019t go out and buy stuff in advance of something happening.\u00a0Starting a fire with something like a\u00a0magnesium\/ferro fire starter<\/a>\u00a0is much easier than by rubbing two sticks together, so those things are really good investments. But if you lost that thing, would you still be able to start a fire?<\/p>\n

What I am saying though is that sometimes it\u2019s better to learn than to buy. Let\u2019s look at some examples.<\/p>\n

Alcohol<\/strong><\/p>\n

In every part of the world and culture, alcohol plays a major part. Sometimes it\u2019s hidden but even while deployed in\u00a0Iraq and Afghanistan, it was very easy to find it if you wanted it (but you\u2019d pay out the ying-yang for it). During hard times, alcohol gets even more popular.<\/p>\n

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Adapt or die: Why you need more skills and less stuff Preppers have a bad reputation for hoarding gear, stocking up on\u00a0a year\u2019s-worth (or more) of food,\u00a0and packing bug out bags that could supply a platoon.\u00a0In almost all cases, these preppers would be screwed if there were a disaster or SHTF. Gear and supplies are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4280,9038,2528,650,767],"class_list":["post-21815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-adaptation","tag-graywolf-survival","tag-preppers","tag-prepping","tag-survival-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21816,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions\/21816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}