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26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

Modern technology has made life a lot easier and we often take it for granted…until we’re caught in a situation where our gadgets fail us. Even though you probably won’t ever need to make a candle from cooking supplies or figure out how to keep produce cool without electricity, it’s good to know how to get along without the help of high-tech machinery. Check out the 26 wilderness and survival hacks below so you’re always be prepared.

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.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day


2. Always keep an extra $20 bill on the inside of your phone case. Then, if you’re caught without cash, you have it on hand.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

3. I never knew!

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day


4. 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.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

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

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

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

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day


7. Can’t live without your spices? Use Tic Tac containers to bring them camping.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

8. 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.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

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

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

10. Walking to your car and feel a little unsafe? Hold your keys in your hands like so in case you need a weapon.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

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

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

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

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day


13. Keep veggies fresh with an all-natural "refrigerator."

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day


14. If you get a flat tire and don’t have a spare, fill it with grass to make it to your destination.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

15. Set up a glow-in-the-dark security system for your campsite with a mousetrap and a glow stick.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

16. If you’re in the woods at night, make sure everyone in your party has a glow stick to use as a signal in case someone gets separated.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

17. You can fashion a makeshift magnifier with your glasses and use the sun to start a fire.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

18. Stuck in the rain? Use trash bags with holes ripped in them as ponchos.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

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

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

20. Make a "lasso" to remove ticks with a mechanical pencil and a thin piece of string.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

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

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

22. Doritos (or any other kind of chips) make great kindling.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day


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

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day


24. 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.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

25. Here’s an easy way to make a super-bright lantern: cut open a beer or soda can, and set a votive candle inside. The tin will reflect the light.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

26. Need help opening a particularly stubborn jar? Grab your duct tape.

26 Survival Tips Could Save Your Life One Day

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