Old Fashioned Skills

What exactly is meant by ‘old fashioned skills’? I’m talking about those skills that our ancestors had that have been replaced by modern conveniences and electricity. For instance, when was the last time you had to pluck the feathers from a chicken before you could cook it and eat it? Better yet, when was the last time you cooked chicken? For me? Don’t ask! I have a personal relationship with the fried chicken place just down the street.

What other skills? What would you do if you needed a container to haul something but didn’t have a plastic tub around? Could you take plant material and weave a basket? A few winters back, I rented a book from the library and taught myself basket weaving. Never know if I’ll need that skill, but it could come in handy.

How about an old fashioned skill that could save your life? Can you build a fire using only what you find in the woods, no flint, lighter fluid or matches? That might be a fairly handy skill to develop.

Here’s just a brief list of old fashioned skills that might be helpful to learn: fire building, butchering, building a shelter from material available in the outdoors, setting snares or traps. Those are just the basic old fashioned skills that could save your life in an emergency situation.