Comments on: Survival Skills To Barter With In Case of Financial Ruin, Unemployment, or Economic Collapse

By: Seb

Seb — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:11:25 +0000

Try looking at skillbound.com – you can swap and train people in any skills anywhere in the world.

By: angie

angie — Sat, 22 May 2010 21:35:17 +0000

i am interested in understanding what you bartered survivla skills from who does he have a camp .And i have an english certificate to teach english overseas do you know a clic for that barter

By: Sunny

Sunny — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:23:55 +0000

I really like your blog! I just learn this last Friday that I am at risk of loosing one of my job. But it doesn’t bother me that much since I have another one left… lol So unemployment may hurt me anytime soon… some little Quebeckers really like to play with my nerves. I am in Quebec. Is the situation better in Ontario and other? Maybe not, but I am pretty sure that in other places, real Canadians know how to treat people correctly – even in case of lay off. I have thousands of dollars invested in the market. I could sell everything and live without working for maybe 3 years. That’s my survival plan. As in case of natural disaster happening in Canada, I would certainly one of the first to die, I don’t know how to set a fire and stuff. I just know how to purchase stocks and its about it lol :) Chow x

By: Aaron @ Clarifinancial

Aaron @ Clarifinancial — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:23:41 +0000

@MoneyEnergy Oh yeah, there are lots of times when I need to survive for a week and all I have is a knife. But like with Craig’s experience, why didn’t it light, how can you make it work, is there something else that will work around you instead? Unfortunately, experimenting to see what works can sometimes means you have to sleep with the bugs for a night or two:(

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:16:00 +0000

@Moneyenergy Maybe so, or could talk about it on a radio show of some sort. Pretty sure next weeks chat I will have to cancel cause I have an event to go to, but maybe in the future. It was quite intense and I did get eaten alive, ha.

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:07:37 +0000

@Craig – that is really crazy, what a great experience. I hope you weren’t eaten alive by bugs. Wow. This could be a great topic for the weekly chat!:)

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:41:52 +0000

Yea, was in the jungle in Guyana and spent 2 nights in solo isolation by myself with nothing but my survival belt.

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:32:16 +0000

@Aaron – Good points about adaptability, that sounds about right. Interesting background you have, I’m sure it comes in handy frequently!

@Craig – a jungle survival trip?! Were you actually in a jungle somewhere? Great job practicing that. I guess a good idea is to keep some dry cotton with you if you can (if you have a winter coat you could always pull out part of its lining, too).

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:23:30 +0000

I recently was on a jungle survival trip and it would be extremely difficult to make a fire without help from a spark or cotton as tinder. Cool trick to have, and even with those things I failed when making a fire, hence no fire when I was stuck in the jungle by myself.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:51:46 +0000

As an Eagle Scout, wilderness survival merit badge-holder, etc, the thing that really gets me about survival skills isn’t that there is one magic formula. There are a few basics you have to learn, but then you have to know how to adapt to your surrounding environment. If you only know how to survive in one sort of terrain, you’re unprepared. You have to be able to use your existing skills and learn from what is around you to keep making progress.

And that is a survival skill you can apply to today’s environment too.