Simply Preparing

Survival blog for disaster and emergency preparedness.

  • Home
  • About Simply Preparing
  • Beginning Prepping
  • Simple & Inexpensive Prepper Projects
  • Young Living Essential Oils

How To Open a Can: Sunday Skill

December 2, 2012 By Barb 2 Comments

Today’s Sunday skill is teaching your kids how to open a can with a mechanical can opener. This is another one of those tools where most of us are so used to popping out the electrical can opener that if we have a mechanical one, it is likely buried in the back of your drawer and your kids have no idea what it is. It won’t do much good for you to have a stocked panty if your family cannot get the cans open! Every household should have a minimum of two manual can openers (in case one breaks). I personally have 3 of the ones below and numerous bottle opener types that would just do a V-shaped puncture open. You can pick can openers up super cheap if you keep your eye out for them. IKEA is actually one of my favorite places for picking tools like this up for $1 or $2. They are also commonly found at Goodwill Stores and garage sales for 50 cents.

Manual Can Opener

how to open a can with a manual can opener

I’m going to assume here that most parents are capable of showing their kids how to use one of these but here are instructions with pictures in case you need a refresher course.

 How To Open a Can WITHOUT a Can Opener

But what if you need to open a can and you cannot find a manual can opener? This is a super neat trick I stumbled upon that is a great Sunday Skill for us adults:

 

If you don’t have a knife, rub it a bit more and you can likely get your fingernail under the lid to pry it open.

How To Open a Bottle of Wine With Your Shoe

And as an added bonus….this is a fun little video on how to open a bottle of wine with your shoe. I haven’t tried it but I can think of a few times I would have been desperate enough to!

 

 

Looking for more easy ideas? This link to prepping for kids should help! Is there another skill you would like me to cover? Let me know in the comments! Have a great week.

*I’d like to thank the folks at www.survivalistboards.com for pointing out the two videos I included here.

Filed Under: Survival Tips and Tricks Tagged With: bottle opener, can opener, how to, prepping for kids, sunday skills, youtube video

Simple & Inexpensive Preps

WHAT Is A Boil Water Notice How Can You Survive It_

How To Survive A Boil Notice

A boil notice is issued when a municipal water provider detects dangerous pathogens and microorganisms in the water that can make us sick.  Other ...continue reading

Privacy Policy and Cookies

This site uses cookies. Please read our Privacy Policy so you fully understand how we use them.

Affiliate Disclosure

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Emergency Planning Basics

Calculating Drinking Water Storage Needs
Breaking Down Prepping Into Small Chunks
Family Emergency Plan Series

Food Storage

Ham and Cheese Egg Muffin Recipe

Ham and Cheese Egg Muffin Recipe

We are grab and go breakfast people at our house.   Since my kids were little,  the best way to make sure everyone  got a good breakfast was to have ready made items stashed away in the freezer. Luckily, this Sausage and Cheese Egg Muffin Recipe is super easy to make in bulk.  Consequently, the only […]

Surviving In Style

Why There Must Be An Israeli Bandage In Every Emergency Kit

An Israeli Bandage In Every Emergency Kit

The Israeli Bandage  was created by the Israeli Defense Force to save lives during combat. The pressure applicator on an Israeli Bandage exerts 30 ...continue reading

Alternate Uses

Diatomaceous Earth Uses

Diatomaceous Earth Uses And Benefits

Have you ever heard of diatomaceous earth?  No?  Then today is your lucky day.  Read on to discover  diatomaceous earth uses to benefit your home, ...continue reading

Why Worry About Preparing?

Preparedness for a disaster makes a lot of sense. With recent and predicted events like Hurricane Sandy, The Colorado Wildfires, Fiscal Cliffs, and rising food and gas costs just in 2012 there is no denying that things are changing in our world. Whether or not you believe "The End of the World As We Know It" is near there are plenty of everyday things to worry about: loss of a job, health emergency, local weather events to name a few.

I find that I worry less about the big "what if's" out there the more emergency planning my family does to deal with the unexpected. I will share the survival tips and tricks I have learned while on this preparedness journey and hope that you join in with lots of comments. We all have a lot to learn from one another.

Now, lets get started prepping! Pick a post and start reading. At the end of every post the blog randomly selects three more survival posts for you to check out. Set aside 10 minutes a day to build your preppers knowledge base. We can never be done learning or prepping, right?

Things To Know

  • Advertising
  • Privacy Policies

Copyright © 2017 BAL Creative, LLC: Simply Preparing Disaster and Emergency Preparedness · WordPress · Log in