new to everything

[Hrusai]

(1 November 2012, 16:19)Destiny Wrote: little bit about me
1. I am in urban surroundings
2. I'm nearly seventeen so I don't have much experience with most survival stuff except (when my nan was more mobile) we used to walk her dogs in the woods for hours and she would tell us what was poisonous.
3. I still live at home, have no job so resources are limited.

thanks for the welcoming guys!

awh damn im no longer the youngest here

19 here

as i also live at home and havent been working for long my advice to you would be to spend some money on a cheap knife (you can get some real nice ones for under 50 quid) then just read alot, learn about the mechanics of prepping, read up alot, and practise skills, so take your knife go out in the garden and try and make a fire without using matches (firesteels are only a few quid so try one of them ) also a battery and some wire wool can work, or using friction like a fire bow....start off with perfect conditions (no wind and nice and dry with easy materials) then slowly move upto harder conditions, like windy with dry materials, then rainy with dry materials, and work your way upto being used to making a fire in any conditions, if you can make a fire with nothing but a knife when its horribly wet and windy then you've got that skill down

also pick areas of prepping that you like at first, its such a broad subject that covers many different aspects, everything from mechanics to electric to bushcraft and food storage, if you jump in with something really hard that you dont like much you'll give up on it too soon

anyway enjoy the forum, pm if you need help with anything and have some fun

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also this will sound very cliche, but pay attention in school, you have no idea how much i used to think would be totally useless to me when i was there, but now ive started prepping and grown up a bit i remember little snippets here and there that i find very useful ...a good understanding of how things work is one of the best skills a prepper can have