100 Skills That EVERYONE Should Know

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