*waving
It helps if you are passionate about these things. Get creative! There are even new solutions that are suppressed by the governments and their mind-programming media.
From raw materials through cloth and buttons manufacturing to design and clothes production, how much of this process can you, yourself, direct?
How do you get raw materials to build or make something? Do you know?
Food, clothing, and shelter - lost arts.
Now with the State cracking down on preppers, combined with the newish police radar that can see inside homes - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-police-radars-can-see-inside-homes-930124 - nobody is safe anymore. Police can now find probable cause for anything, just by making a unreasonable judgment about what they detected using the radar. Raid first, ask questions later.