My family survived the hard, country life following the Great Depression, expressly the 1940s and early 50s mainly due to the fact that Dad knew how to make things. He was really good at "Making meat" an old time term for putting food on the table. Dad taught me every thing he knew about trapping, hunting, fishing and gardening. In order to survive, without money, you must know how to make your own tools ... Dad was good at that too. He taught me how to survive with what I had ... "Make what you have do." We made our tools from what Mother Nature provided.
Most of our time was spent making a living but when there was time left dad taught me how to have fun.
The SURVIVOR section is divided into 3 sections MAKING TOOLS, MAKING MEAT, and MAKING TOYS.
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PS: I wish I could get on the Survivor Show, I would teach them a few things; including making friends!