You’re a prepper, so you’ve made plans right? You’ve gone through all of the likely scenarios that could befall you and your family and have carefully put together a stash of equipment and supplies and steps to follow.

And all that is absolutely what you should be doing. Be assured that the huge majority of the population does nothing whatsoever about planning for a SHTF situation, so you’re already way ahead of them. The problem is though that even with all of that planning, life can still throw a totally unexpected curve ball at you, and you need to be able to deal with it.

So in your prepper list, you also need to include these twelve really neat little tricks in your prepper plans, put together by the people at Viral Nova. They’re all totally simple and yet when you suddenly need one of them you’ll be glad you learned it!

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12 Amazing Survival Tricks You Need To Know

1. Need AA batteries, but only have AAA? Ball up pieces of tin foil and use them to fill in the space between the appliance and the battery.

2. If you know you’ll need something to jump-start a fire, soak cotton balls or pads in petroleum jelly or paraffin wax. Throw one on the fire before you light it.

3. Keep your toilet paper dry by making a dispenser out of an old coffee canister.

4. To make a small raft, cover a bunch of branches with a tarp.

5. If you’re bringing beans or rice into the wild, keep them in plastic bottles instead of the bags they come in. The bags are likely to rip, but bottles will keep them dry.

6. Keep an Altoids tin with corrugated cardboard in your pocket on a long hike. It works as a tiny heat source in a pinch.

7. Keep mosquitos away with a homemade trap: mix water, brown sugar, and yeast together to stop bugs from biting you.

8. A water jug and a headlamp make a super-bright lantern.

9. With a pair of scissors, you can make soda can tabs into hooks for fishing.

10. If you’re worried about getting frostbite, put baby oil on the skin exposed to the elements.

11. Put a wick in a jar of vegetable shortening for a long-lasting candle.

12. Before heading out on a hike, make sure you have a piece of chalk in your pocket. Mark trees you pass to keep track of where you’ve traveled. It will stop you from walking around in circles.

Make sure to keep these handy tricks in mind because you never know when you’ll need them! For more cool tricks and hacks, check out Viral Nova.

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