Some skills that you might believe to be totally useless can actually be amazingly useful in a SHTF scenario – here’s 6 to consider…

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1. Butchering

If you are one of the few people that can quickly and efficiently butcher an animal, consider yourself a shoo-in for every hunter’s favorite trading partner. Skillfully dividing an animal into edible proportions is harder than it looks, and it may be so valuable that you’ll never have to do any of your own hunting and instead take a percentage of your customer’s kills. Bonus points if you can utilize the firs and skins of the animals as well.

2. Home Brewing

In a survival scenario, home brewing will no longer be an illegal moonshiner’s game. While dabbling in making your own alcohol is a good way to make yourself sick, skillfully brewing a vat of delicious spirits just might save your life. Aside from the sanitation benefits of making your own alcohol, you can trade it for resources and ingratiate reluctant group members with it.

3. Blacksmithing

Blacksmithing is one of the most useful skills anyone could have for long-term survival. The ability to shape metal is what separates successful civilizations from stone-age ones. Not just anyone can smith well, however; there is quite a bit of science to learn and much trial and error for anyone to master the craft. If you’re experienced, you can expect the majority of your community to be needing your skills.

4. Welding

If your post-apocalyptic society has found a way to generate electricity, those who can weld will have job security for the rest of their lives. Welding will be needed for almost everyone, from farmers to mechanics to soldiers to homesteaders. If you have put the time and effort into learning how to weld, you’ll be a cut above most and in a key position for your community.

5. Carpentry

The ability to manipulate wood to any need will be an incredibly useful skill when the SHTF. Unfortunately, most people haven’t the slightest clue what to do beyond the basic shop class bird house. Anyone with any carpentry skill, from framing houses to building furniture, will be extremely handy in a survival situation. In addition, many survival locales involve wooded areas—places where carpenters can truly use their environment to their advantage.

6. Masonry

Masonry is a triple threat when combined with smithing and carpentry. Find a mason in a survival group and you will discover the best planned, best built shelters and structures around. Anyone can stack some rocks together for a temporary shelter, but a mason has the knowledge and experience to truly fortify any place they choose, and as such would be a valuable asset to any survival team.

Hopefully you or someone you know possesses as least one of these skills! To learn more great survival info, take a look at Urban Survival Site.

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