Yes, I said every man, how­ev­er, I believe that many women should know these as well.  Espe­cial­ly if they are prep­pers or sur­vival­ist types.  Don’t get excit­ed, they are not all skills that require weld­ing or some­thing like that.  They are skills that just make sense to me, and I want­ed to share them with every­one.  For the record, I did not make this list up.  I found it on Pop­u­lar Mechan­ics Web­site , and it struck a chord with me.  The Pop­u­lar Mechan­ics Web­site has a pret­ty cool DIY sec­tion as well.  You should check out the DIY link here .  

So here is the list:

From Pop­u­lar Mechan­ics:

Table of Con­tents

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Automotive

1.Han­dle a blowout
2.Dri­ve in snow
3.Check trou­ble codes
4.Replace fan belt
5.Wax a car
6.Con­quer an  off-road obsta­cle
7.Use a stick welder
8.Hitch up a trail­er
9.Jump start a car

Handling Emergencies

10.Per­form the Heim­lich
11.Reverse hypother­mia
12.Per­form hands-only CPR
13.Escape a sink­ing car

Home

14.Carve a turkey
15.Use a sewing machine
16.Put out a fire
17.Home brew beer
18.Remove blood­stains from fab­ric
19.Move heavy stuff
20.Grow food
21.Read an elec­tric meter
22.Shov­el the right way
23.Sol­der wire
24.Tape dry­wall
25.Split fire­wood
26.Replace a faucet wash­er
27.Mix con­crete
28.Paint a straight line
29.Use a French knife
30.Prune bush­es and small trees
31.Iron a shirt
32.Fix a toi­let tank flap­per
33.Change a sin­gle-pole switch
34.Fell a tree
35.Replace a bro­ken win­dow­pane
36.Set up a lad­der, safe­ly
37.Fix a faucet car­tridge
38.Sweat cop­per tub­ing
39.Change a dia­per
40.Grill with char­coal
41.Sew a but­ton on a shirt
42.Fold a flag

Medical Myths

43.Treat frost­bite
44.Treat a burn
45.Help a seizure vic­tim
46.Treat a snakebite
47.Remove a tick

Military Know-How

48.Shine shoes
49.Make a drum-tight bed
50.Drop and give the per­fect pushup

Outdoors

51.Run rapids in a canoe
52.Hang food in the wild
53.Skip­per a boat
54.Shoot straight
55.Tack­le steep drops on a moun­tain bike
56.Escape a rip cur­rent

Primitive Skills

57.Build a fire in the wilder­ness
58.Build a shel­ter
59.Find potable water

Surviving Extremes

60.Floods
61.Tor­na­dos
62.Cold
63.Heat
64.Light­ning

Teach Your Kids

65.Cast a line
66.Lend a hand
67.Change a tire
68.Throw a spi­ral
69.Fly a stunt kite
70.Dri­ve a stick shift
71.Par­al­lel park
72.Tie a bow­line
73.Tie a neck­tie
74.Whit­tle
75.Ride a bike

Technology

76.Install a graph­ics card
77.Take the per­fect por­trait
78.Cal­i­brate HDTV set­tings
79.Shoot a home movie
80.Ditch your hard dri­ve

Master Key Workshop Tools

81.Drill dri­ver
82.Grease gun
83.Coolant hydrom­e­ter
84.Sock­et wrench
85.Test light
86.Brick trow­el
87.Fram­ing ham­mer
88.Wood chis­el
89.Spade bit
90.Cir­cu­lar saw
91.Sledge ham­mer
92.Hack­saw
93.Torque wrench
94.Air wrench
95.Infrared ther­mome­ter
96.Sand blaster
97.Cross­cut saw
98.Hand plane
99.Mul­ti­me­ter
100.Feel­er gauges

Feel free to com­ment and add to this list with your own sug­ges­tions… I am sure they will be good ones.