Survival Essentials Session: Mastering the Rule of Threes

In this session we will focus on the 'rule of threes' for survival, we start by ensuring you can understand  the essentials: air, shelter, water, and food. I'll walk you through the art of evading disaster's grasp by mastering techniques ranging from CPR to the smart use of household item while making sure you're unshakable when the world gets shaky.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

Peace and power to all of my good people out there. Welcome to another session with Shea. And this session is going to be an introductory session to a series of sessions, and this series of sessions is going to be about staying ready, so you don't have to get ready. None of these sessions are promoting any type of fear mongering or all of those big words that mean that you you scared, because nobody is scared, nobody is going to be scared, but what we are going to be is prepared. And, again, nothing wrong with staying ready. So you don't get ready.

Speaker 1 0:50

These next couple of sessions are going to be broken down so you can save them for later and you can refer back to them when you're trying to get supplies together, get a mindset together, all of those things. Because even if you don't pay attention to the daily news, the evening news, repapers, news articles, whatever we know, things are popping the way that they're popping and we don't want to be caught out there unprepared. So I took it upon myself to say you know what? I'm going to compile some information, put out some information to the people and you take it as you will. You know, I just hope some of the information gets to the people that needs to, it gets to and it helps. So this first session is going to be about supplies and survival. I understand that prices are high, things are happening. You got kids getting out of school, summer is about to start, you know. All of these things are going down in your world and it's like, shay, I can't add another thing to focus on in life right now. Well, unfortunately, I'm going to add another thing to you and hopefully, even if you don't put it in the forefront of your brain, it just sits there and hangs out for a bit and sometimes it makes itself known to say, hey, remember to pick up some of this stuff, just in case shit. You know, we out in the store we could pick up some things that Shay had mentioned, just because we out here. So don't feel as though a sense of being overwhelmed in any of these sessions is just information to be referred, refer back to or jot it down or make a mental note of. So, anyhow, here we go, and I also begin with the caveat of I am not a survival expert. I don't say that I know more than anybody else has ever told you about these things either. I'm not that girl. All I am is a person that's sharing information. Take it as you will do the research, as you will add it to whatever, chuck it and don't share it. But for those who know and who just need a little bit of info, I I don't want it to seem as though that because I said it, you should do it Anywho.

Speaker 1 3:22

Moving on so with survival and supplies portion of this, a simple way to remember is a rule of three, just that's for for the human body in in survival situation. So three minutes without air, three hours of no shelter, three days without water and three weeks without food. That is when the human body starts to break down in different aspects. So we're going to break them down, give a little bit of tips during each part of it and then actually at the end, I'll give some random tips just so you can take notes of for later keeping. So the first one.

Speaker 1 4:11

So three minutes without air. You think, okay, I don't have air. Am I drowning? Am I being choked? Am I suffocating, whatever? For that portion of it, as a human need, you need air to breathe. I mean, subconsciously we breathe because our body is trained to breathe, and just air and oxygen and all that other stuff but we don't think about it because second nature thing, but the second that that oxygen is cut off.

Speaker 1 4:39

You have to think in a survival situation, how do I get myself together? I got three minutes. That clock is ticking off in your head. Three minutes, but a not so heavy note. It could be simple as knowing CPR. If somebody's in a choking situation you have that knowledge of. Hey, I can help assist that person's. Three seconds or three minutes of air. If you're in a building there's smoke around, how do I help my three minutes in my um trying to breathe at this moment? So difference type of stuff to help with it. You can have mad, or to add on to your kit if you're out in the burrow, out and about and need some things in order to assist. With the three minutes mask, of course, depending on how you feel about mask. We're not going to open that can of worms with the mask, but in a situation where you need it you just be like OK, I have some masks, put it in my bug out bag or supply box or whatever have you, and then first aid supplies go with that too. Also with the mask, the n95 type mask if you got dollars, the filtered like really nice doohickey mask if you come across those. But anything that can you can add to your your air part of it works too.

Speaker 1 6:14

All right, next is three hours of shelter. So if you're in your house and you're building, ok, your survival part, ok, you could last three hours without shelter. I mean in the sense of in like an extreme weather condition, so like, if you are it, it's extremely hot outside. If extremely cold outside, if you're in the middle of a hurricane, a tornado, like how am I going to survive in this entity or in this, this element without shelter? Depending on if you're traveling, if you have a bug out bag with you, if you have a tent in your bug out bag, that could be a temporary shelter. At least that's going to block what certain elements of whatever you're dealing with. Also, when it comes to the um, the shelter, the importance of it is temperature regulation too. In the extreme weather condition, your body temperature can either lose heat really fast or gain heat really fast, depending on how you regulate your temperature. So something as simple as a tarp or a tent in your bug out bag can just dramatically assist that extreme weather situation. Um, if you're building the bug out bag for that. Particular layers of clothing um, a blanket provide good, good barriers, just for the shelter part. So, and again, with these threes and threes, like it can vary too, like this is just something to easily remember three minutes of this, three, three hours of that, three days of this, and then you know, do your own research and add it accordingly to your particular situation. Okay, three days without water.

Speaker 1 8:02

Now, water is essential because our body is made up of 60 60 percent of water. So when dehydration starts it's slow, but if you're thirsty, you're already starting to be dehydrated. That's like your indicator, and usually it starts with, like it affects your mood, your memory, your attention span, your coordination. Like everybody knows, when they get a little dehydrated, things get a little different, because your mind and your body is starting to crave the water that it needs in order to function properly. And then next, you know, the kidneys start to retain water and that reduces the need to urinate. And then, when that happens, your blood starts to thicken with less water and then your cardiovascular system starts to get stressed out, you get light headed and you might even faint. So all that stuff happens when you just don't get water. And what's the rule of three, three days without water. All of this stuff will slowly start to happen and then, all of a sudden, your organs shut down because without the, without the water, they can't function properly. So that's why water is very important.

Speaker 1 9:24

On a regular basis, like on a regular basis, they say, you're supposed to get half a gallon worth of water, two liters and there's, you know, eight glasses a day gives you what you need. But I feel like more is better when it comes to water, depending on what you do. If you're outside all the time and you're sweating or you're exercising, you need to replenish that water a little bit faster. So the more is the better. Um, when it comes to actual, like water, when you want to preserve the water for prepping purposes, let's say, you need to save it for drinking purposes, cooking purposes and washing, sanitation purposes. So if you're going to conserve water and save water, you have to conserve it and save it. In that way, how much am I drinking, how much am I using for cooking and how much am I using it for washing of hands, you know, flushing toilets if necessary, and if that water needs to have filters, if it needs bleach tablets, all that other stuff. But that's when it comes to the whole water part of it as well, and when you look at prepping purposes as well.

Speaker 1 10:43

Rainwater collection if you're allowed to in your areas. I heard a rumor that certain places it's against the law to collect your own rainwater. When there's dire situations, who the fuck is gonna come check to see if your rainwater is is being collected properly, like if, if you're coming to be that pressed at that point and you messing with water that's coming from the sky, there's bigger problems out there and I wouldn't want to be that cop or that person saying that shit. But anywho, if you have a, well, you're blessed, because then you ain't got to worry about none of that. Um, water generators. So there's generators that generate water with electricity and you have to set up little doohickeys doohickeys. It's pretty cool if you, you know, want to have some sort of constant of water without having to be connected to a system or a system not working.

Speaker 1 11:40

How you're going to store like bigger water, like storage container, the jugs, the bottles, pouches to hold water and, of course, water bottles and water drums, things like that. But, and lastly, three weeks without food. So the average person can survive three weeks with stored food, with proper shelf life and with depending on how many calories the food takes and all that other stuff with depending on how many calories the food takes and all that other stuff. After the three weeks start, you start going into malnutrition and then starvation. So very scary things, but not scary enough for it to be something that you can't prepare for Because, remember, we're getting ready, so we don't have to get, or we're staying ready, so we don't have to get ready, so we're preparing for the things.

Speaker 1 12:39

And usually you want to have proteins, carbs, fruits and veggies, healthy fats and vitamins. For the proteins, you can have canned meats and beans and nuts and all that different varieties stuff that you'll actually eat. Now there's levels to things that you'll actually eat. If you're in this prepping stage of things right now, get things that you know your family will like. Like because you don't know if you're gonna have to use it before whenever and you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 13:06

Don't just automatically get shit that you don't know that. You know that if shit came down to it, y'all rather starve than eat that stuff. Then don't do that, but get the things that you like and then, if there's not things that you don't like and that's what's left, and that's what you just got to do, because that's what's left. But canned meats, beans, nuts okay, then we go to carbs. You got your whole grains, your rice, your pastas, your noodles, uh, when it comes to fruits and veggies, of course you can't do fresh, but if you have them canned canned properly you can get them dried or freeze dried. That'll hold the moisture out of the fruits and veggies. But canning is a great thing to learn if you know how to do it. I am trying to learn, but it's a whole process with a whole lot of doohickeys that you need to do, but it's a very good talent to know.

Speaker 1 13:58

But anyway, healthy fats, which include oil, nuts, seeds and then vitamins. That mostly would be through supplements, if supplements are your thing to do. And then, of course, you want to put them in a cool, uh, dry, dark place, if you have the space. Of course, everybody doesn't live on wherever they live. You got to work with what you've got, so try to keep your things in a cool, dry place, wherever you're going to keep them. Um, you don't have a lot of space.

Speaker 1 14:27

Then what you got might be what it is. You might can only have a granola bar here, speaking of MREs down in that vein of it. You know, emergency food, whether it's canned or dried or however you want to carry that, emergency food right now is very expensive. So I mean, if you have the funds for it, that could be a plus too. But please do your research. There's a lot of companies who have stuff out there that is like slop when you open it up. But if you in that dire straits of at that point that you got to open that stuff up, then that's what you got. That's what you got. So I mean, the cost of it is just kind of crazy right now, but everything's kind of crazy with cost.

Speaker 1 15:14

But anywho, certain things that you might want to keep in with your food is Kool-Aid packets. Like you can have all the water in the world, but people are going to get tired of drinking water. You sprinkle Kool-Aid packets in it, whether you have sugar or not. That's going to make that water taste a little bit better. If you need to. Um, of course, a little bit of snacks, and snacks and candy could be just a comfort food thing, like if you just have a little bit of candy here, like remember when we used to eat this. Here's a little bit left um, chocolate, granola bars, little things like that.

Speaker 1 15:51

When it comes to like utensils, you might want to have plates and a skillet, just basic little things, wood spoons, so you don't have to keep trash. But then the thing about disposable stuff. If you're at a water situation and you want to conserve water, you don't want to have to keep washing dishes over, and so, yes, the disposables are going to bring trash. But if you're saving water at this point, that's one thing less than you got to spend on water or use with your water. But if you're at not at that level yet, that's your prerogative.

Speaker 1 16:26

Um, little condiment packets, those would be great to have in any little in like a ziploc bag if you're going to save them anyway. Because if you have that emergency food, that's not that great. A little bit of packet of ketchup will make a lot of really bad stuff taste a little bit better. So, uh, you can pick those up, put them in a ziploc bag and put it in your food storage space. Spices, salt packets, pepper packets, those things, all those stuff. You can put them in different little Ziploc packets and just tuck them away.

Speaker 1 17:02

And peanut butter Peanut butter is a thing. If you're allergic to peanut butter, then of course don't put that in there. But peanut butter is a great uh protein. It's a great snack. It could it could travel better. You could put it in a ziploc bag and then go out and forage and things like that and have a protein. But everybody can't do peanut butter. Um, so those were the three, the guidelines for it the three seconds or three minutes without air, the three hours without shelter, the three days without water and the three weeks without food.

Speaker 1 17:45

But, as promised, here's a random supply list. So again, just going to give this list of things. If you're out and about in the stores one day, or if you're going to do a specific journey to a place to get things for your get right bag, or you're ready for anything, bags or whatever, get it as you can. Just don't feel as though. If you don't get it, depending on your mindset, if you think in your mind that hey, she about to go left tomorrow, I got to get this stuff now then so be it. I'm not telling you not to think that way. All I'm saying is that if you don't think that way, it's cool to to just pick it up whenever you can and whenever you think about it. So here we go. Also, this list is in no particular order. I just compiled a list of things that were important. I thought for particular situations to have and group them, some of them, together, but they're not in any list of importance. Don't think because I say this number one thing is like, oh, to get this asap type type fast. No, it's not, it's just the way that the list came to be. Okay, uh.

Speaker 1 19:08

Solar batteries and chargers if you see a solar battery charger, that would be a great thing to have, because if the sun can charge one of those charges up, that can do charge up other things, whether it be a generator, whether it be a little fan, whether it be whatever. Super plus two way radio a good one, not the little toy ones. A generator if you can afford a generator, that's always good to have, depending on what it is. If it's a solar generator, you your money. If it's a gas generator, if there's no gas, what you're gonna use to charge your generator. But to each their own. A crank radio. Crank radio is low-key, high-key, a great thing to have because all you need to do is crank it up and it will charge the internal battery. That will connect to an AM FM radio or it can crank it up, give you a battery and it can be a light, a flashlight, depending if you can find a fancy one.

Speaker 1 20:08

But I highly recommend dual purpose things. If you can get something that can do something for something else. That's one less thing that you got to worry about not having, um, a grill right now is memorial day, weekend as I record this and those little portable, little mini grills the propane ones and the charcoal ones, money. Those can be used in many different ways. When it comes to like a survival prep situation. You can have those to cook anything if you need. You can use it for store for charcoal. Charcoal can be used to uh, purify, sanitize water if you really need it to be, and it can also help with poisoning the charcoal if it needs to be taken for that purpose. But anyway, those right now are on sale. A camp stove those are money too.

Speaker 1 21:11

Trash bags you never know how much you need a trash bag when you don't have one available, and I say that because they can be used for so many things. If stuff goes left and you need to put, if you need to put trash that needs to be buried outside. Trash bags are money for it. If you have to, you have to transport waste some kind of way 250 feet away from your structure. That's the best way to do it too. So trash bags are always good and if they're stored properly, you can have a lot of them in a little bit of a space.

Preparedness for Emergency Situations

Speaker 1 21:47

So candles candles are a great thing to have because they serve a dual purpose they give you light, they're due for cooking and they can do for heat purposes. So candles, you just got to be safe. The tea light lamps they're great because they don't hold too much flame, but they do a lot of stuff in a three or four of them at a time. Flashlights of course, a solar flashlights always a lot better. Use the sun to charge them up.

Speaker 1 22:16

Regular batteries if you do batteries, make sure you get lots of different sizes. Just don't get c's and a's. Get some d's in there, some double a triple a's. Just get all different types, because you never know what you'll need. Also, when it comes to batteries, if you like going to go pick some up at the dollar store and you know you see the off brand ones you could keep some off. You could buy the batteries and use them for bartering purposes, like you can when things get to that level. If they get to that level, just saying the batteries can be used as a barter, be like hey, I can give you a pack of batteries if you give me a saw. Oh yeah, I really need these batteries. Batteries, boom. You don't give a fuck about those batteries, they're from the dollar store, but that dude thinks they're worth a saw. And if you get to that level, a lot of people what they think is important at the time might be even more valuable to you, because those batteries really didn't matter. But you have dura cells at home and energizers at home. So just to say, get different types of batteries for different purposes anyway.

Speaker 1 23:28

Um, shovels anything that you will do as a tool for purposes specifically to shovel shit if you need to, when you have to bury it away from your home a little portable shovel, you can use it as a weapon, if necessary to dual purposes. Speaking of weapons other than guns, we'll talk about guns later. But things like bats and swords and rakes like you're raking leaves with the teeth on that, and if you don't use it as a stick part you could take the top off off and that can be used as a short term weapon if necessary. Stun gun, pepper sprays, machetes, the little knives, the throwing knives and the stars beddies, the little knives, the throwing knives and the stars all of these things are not gun weapons that can be used if you need to and they can be stored away separately if you need them, throughout your space too, depending on the size of your space and for safety purposes.

Speaker 1 24:28

Please, please, please, please. I don't want nobody saying that shea told me to put throwing stars underneath my cabinet and my three year old got it and cut everybody up. I don't want that. Put things in safe places. Most of the people that are listening to this right now you're adults. Be an adult, put shit away, but put it somewhere safe that you know that if you need it, you know you can get to it too, but the babies won't get to it Anywho.

Speaker 1 24:56

Cash if you need it, you know you can get to it too, but the babies won't get to it anywho um cash. So in another episode or another series session I will speak about if certain situations and scenarios and how to adjust and adapt to certain things. You know, power going out, electric. One of the things with it is if all the banks are shut down. So I suggest everyone keep cash on hand at home now. The denomination is up to you, the amount is up to you. But, and when you keep this cash, keep it in different denominations. Don't just have a whole, a lot of hunnids, because those hunnids probably ain't going to be worth a hundred anyway if you resort into using that emergency fund. But if you can't get different denominations ones, fives, tens, twenties get different sets of money, because it's always good to have different sets of money.

Speaker 1 25:53

Um, on the vein of that, if you can get, gold is pretty high right now. I don't know what the price of it is, nor do I care to look. But if you can get gold, uh coins, silver coins, uh, the little, the bars, if you you balling like that you get yourself a silver gold bar, do that too, but those things are going to hold value. But also, if you get those things in bulk, know that you have to keep those safe. If your house or your space is fort knox, if it ain't why you got it, keep it in coin form. It's a lot easier to travel with and when it comes to bartering purposes, a gold coin is a lot easier than use a gold bar just saying, um, okay, uh, medications, shifting gears a little bit.

Speaker 1 26:42

Uh, everybody should have a first aid kit. If you get a first aid kit and different types of first aid kits, you can cut down on actually trying to find individual things like the gauze and the tape and the antiseptic wipes and alcohol pads and all that other good stuff. If you get different types of first aid kits, you can create one big kit with all the little ones or you can just have little ones around, depending on what you need. So your prerogative up to you. Um, but a lot of times that they don't have other things. So if you just want to pick certain things up when you go out dollar store, walmart, whatever, wherever you shop, um, these would be things that it'd be nice to have.

Speaker 1 27:28

If you need to use something and you know you can't get to the CVS grocery store, whatever, um, allergen medicine, of course, you know, know, your zyrtex, whatever your family needs or whatever you need pain medication, the advils, the tylenols, the things that you can just get over the counter, pick them up and go out the store, the pepto, pepto, bismol. If the worst thing in the world is if you have a stomachache and you can't get, get for you or your kids or whatever, get the tablet forms so you don't have to worry about the liquid stuff and measuring what if you don't have a measuring cup? If you get the tablet forms, it does the same stuff Saves you space. Neosporin, toiletries, antibiotics, iodine tablets, hand sanitizer Soaps uh, antibiotics, you know, iodine tablets, hand sanitizer soaps and baby wipes, anti-diarrhea, eye wash, laxatives uh, altoids, antiseptic stuff like that. That. All of that stuff can be in your first aid kit part Protective gear.

Speaker 1 28:40

So, protective gear. If you come across things like this, if you're thinking about it, it could be used for certain situations. Let's say that Disposable coveralls, like the ones the painters use, the one with the hood those would be great for decontamination purpose. Whether you need to, you know, cordon off a certain area in your home. You don't know if you need to use a mask or if you need to use coveralls. There's coveralls there. They have a disposable one. I think there's a pack on Amazon for like 30 bucks and they're like disposable. I think you get 10 in a pack. That's great. Keep that boom, you and your family if you need that, um with that you know rubber boots, rubber gloves, goggles, a dust mask, disposable ponchos If you need to use that. Those protect a lot. Not even thinking about, it's the easy thing to remember or to to add to your kit.

Speaker 1 29:42

What I will say about guns if you choose to have them to keep you safe, more power to you. If you don't, I hope you get yourself safe with a different means that you're comfortable with. On the topic of guns if you want to keep those, make sure you keep those safe and you actually know how to use them. Worst thing in the world is having so much firepower and you don't even know how to take the safety off. So learn proper gun etiquette and gun knowledge and then arm yourself accordingly. But some things you might not think about. If you do have a gun, do you have a cleaning kit If you have to use it and you want to use it right and you want to keep it right cleaning kits for every gun that you need or every gun that you. You might have a lockbox for that gun and a lockbox with your ammo. If they have one or the other, or if you need one or the other. You should know where they both are, but keep them separately.

Speaker 1 30:48

Um, spare parts for your gun you could learn your guns. People learn your guns. Have spare parts. Learn your guns. Have spare parts for your guns. So at least if something breaks, you know how to replace it and you have replacement parts to fix it. Magazines Make sure you have mags for that too. So if you don't believe in the guns I gave tips for like bats and swords and all that other stuff bows and arrows, a bow and arrow if you learn how to use that right, that could be a game changer too. Not a lot of people know how to use those things properly, and the ones that do they pretty right with it. So, uh, fire safety stuff this is one. Well, it's still in the protective carpet.

Speaker 1 31:39

Whatever you get me, don't always go for the extinguisher. Yes, get extinguishers, get several of them, know where they're at and put them in strategic places. But you can also get a fire blanket. A fire blanket can stop a lot of the little fires without expunging a hole or using a whole extinguisher. Get different sizes, different types of fire blankets and put them in different parts of your kit too, so you can always have one readily available comfort of peace of mind or acts of killing the boredom of times.

Speaker 1 32:15

If there's no internet and there's no power, you should keep some things, especially if you got a house full of kids or a house full of adults or if it's just yourself, whatever to keep your mind activated and keep it sharp and not just die of boredom. A deck of cards, a good book and some board games will save a family, sometimes during a snowstorm, and that might be all that is needed in order to bring sanity back to any situation. So I suggest keeping those things in a special spot for when. Ok, bring out the board games with the cards and the books. Some people just might want to read a book. Those are for comfort issues.

Speaker 1 33:05

Lastly, matches Get the matches that are storm matches. Don't get the gas station matches, even though those are good If you're in a dire situation, some matches are better than no matches. But if you're trying to put it in a kit of some sort, some sort, the storm matches and if you don't have any in a pinch, dryer lint is a great activator for a fire. Dryer lint, kleenex, good old duct tape Lots of things can be used and prepared and created and made with duct tape.

Speaker 1 33:42

Have a roll, have several rolls. Somebody might barter you some really cool shit for a roll of duct tape, and wouldn't it be dope that you have 15 or five? Uh, bleach course. Bleach can be used for different things, for everything. A mousetrap? Yeah, that might be a good thing. Um, if you have to, if they, if it's by your food or your food storage mousetrap, sanitary way to get rid of them is necessary. Super glue, super glue. Super glue can save many things and it can be put in your um first aid kit as well. Instant stitches, if need be.

Speaker 1 34:31

Anywho, that was the end of the uh, random stuff list. That's the end of this session. I hope the information that I gave was informative and helpful, and if you needed notes, you got the notes, and the next session will be about plans. What plans, what types of scenarios should, not should, we plan for, but we should be aware of, and how to go about planning for, the things of what to do if, in case, or what to do if X, y, z happens. You know, just throw it out there. With that being said, I hope each and every one of you have a great rest of your day. Rest of your evening and I will catch you on the next session with Shay Peace.