Apart from your morale and ability to innovate, understanding how to make the best of a bad situation is the key to surviving almost anything.

The amazing hacks in this video are all basic common sense and preparation, but each could be very valuable if you find yourself in a survival situation.

Surviving a crisis or emergency situation requires the ability to innovate and to use your surroundings to your best advantage.

Everyone can use these five hacks, whether your situation is truly SHTF or a more mundane survival situation, such as your power goes out after a storm.

What hacks do you know?

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