urbanangie

I don’t know if most people have heard of the rules of three but they are vital. I don’t mean only in a prepping or survival situation. The rules of three apply to day to day life as well. Let me explain.

Rules of Three

You can survive:

3 minutes without air

3 hours without shelter

3 days without water

3 weeks without food

When thinking of survival most people think they will be fine if they have adequate supplies of food and water. Yes, you need food and water but look at the rules above. Water and food are the last two rules not the first two. No matter how much food and water you have if the air around you is toxic or poison you will not survive. If the air is breathable or you have adequate protection (for example gas mask or breathing gear) and it is winter (for example windchill of 20 below) or summer (for example 100 in the shade) you could end up with hypothermia in the winter or heat stroke in the summer in a very short period of time. However adequate shelter will keep you warm in winter and provide cooling in the summer.

So you see that all the food in the world and a continuous supply of water are useless if you don’t have air to breathe and shelter from the elements.

When you prep think of all four of the rules and store things for all of them.

Gas masks and medical masks for breathing. Tents, tarps, sleeping bags, blankets, and paracord to use as makeshift shelters. Water at least 1 gallon per person per day for drinking and 2 gallons per person per day for cooking and cleaning. Food storage is easy just remember to store what you eat and eat what you store.

In day to day life the rules of three are just as essential as in a survival situation. So daily life revolves around air to breathe, shelter to protect, water to drink and food to eat. If you have more than those essentials than you are living in luxury. Nobody needs more than the four essentials. There are people in this country who do not have these essentials and those who do not would do anything to get them. This how things are now. Can you imagine how much worse they will be after something goes wrong.?

So plan ahead and be ready.

Sorry about the last few days of no posting but I have been sick. I am feeling better now and will start posting every day again.

Til we meet again God Bless You All

Goal setting should become a priority as a person or group moves into a prepping mindset. Setting a long term goal with a completion date is important to keep your mindset on the future. Setting many short term goals that all lead to the completion of your long term goal is the best way to achieve success.

I am a firm believer in the answer to the old question “How do you eat an elephant”? The answer is of course “one bite at a time”. This is an accurate way to describe how I prep. I set a long term goal (the elephant). Then I break that down into many short term goals (the bites). As I complete each short term goal I am one step (one bite) closer to completing my long term goal (eating the elephant).

The prepping mindset is just that a mindset. You need to prep not only with physical goods but also with knowledge.

The knowledge I have is something that no rioter or government can take from me. If I was to lose everything I have stored and saved and collected for survival it is no big deal. I will still survive because I have the knowledge I need to survive.

Get knowledge, set goals, and survive. If you do these things not only will you survive, you will thrive.

Bless one and all.

The following is a list of what I have done to be prepared for a catastrophe while living in an urban setting in a severely reduced financial situation. Our situation is extreme in that my husband and I are on SSI. We receive food stamps and Medicaid. So as you can see my resources are extremely limited, however I have found a way to begin to prepare for whatever catastrophe the government is hiding from us (the people).

As I stated above I started my prepping in a severely reduced financial situation. So here is how I got started even though I really had no funds to make purchases. When I went shopping to purchase the necessary household items that I needed to run my home (dish soap, laundry soap, etc…) what I would do is purchase bigger sizes than I really needed. As time went on eventually there were months that arrived and I did not need to purchase something because I had plenty but I purchased the item any way and put it away in my storage area. I also budgeted anywhere from 10 to 20 dollars to spend on clearance items and at the dollar store. All these items were put into storage.

I did the same thing when food shopping I would purchase one extra of all non-perishable foods each month and put the extra in storage eventually I began to accumulate a nice supply of food that I already knew my family would eat because they ate it all the time. I realize that storing water in empty milk jugs is not the best way but it is the only way I have been able to accomplish my water storage goals. So to make sure that my jugs are really clean inside I clean them with boiling water and soap. Then I rinse them with bleach. Then I let them dry completely. Then I wash them one more time with hot soapy water and after they dry I fill them with water and put the date on the label. I have accumulated much water this way as my family goes through 8 to 10 gallons of milk per month.

This is how I started. Now I automatically buy extra every time I go to the store. It just feeds like normal to me now.