Another part is honing your skills so that you could likely manage without any of those supplies – if you had to.

This video will start you out with some tips on how to whip up some useful devices out of practically nothing.

By starting to think this way, you can conceive of and notice hundreds of other ways to modify, improvise and "hack" your way through survival – anywhere, anytime.

Here are even more life hacks that could help in a crisis.