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The fifty dollar and up underground house book would be my choice if I were to win. Thanks, what a good idea.
debbieo

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Thanks

TheGunGeek@gmail.com

Making the Best of Basics….would be great! Of course Angie could probably use it more than I! In which case the CD would be awesome! Or is that a throw in with the books?

Thank you for your efforts in keeping us up to speed on our survival quest!!!

Making The Best Of Basics is my choice. Thanks!
Mike

I'd have to go with Shoestring Survivalism by Andy James. Heard its great and would help out a lot now that I'm out of work.

Thanks M.D., love the blog.

How To Buy Cheap Land.

I am currently just starting for some cheap land in my area. I would love to read 'How to buy land cheap, 5th edition'

Thanks for opportunity!

mountainhiker38@yahoo.com

Makeshift Workshop Skills For Survival and Self-Reliance, if you please.

Thanks!

hooz002@hotmail.com

$50 and up underground house

rotll(dot)mail(at)gmail(dot)com

Makeshift Workshop Skills For Survival and Self-Reliance.
Final answer.

tracy@possumliving.com

i'd like "Shoestring Survivalism"

Thanks!
Eric

thewayofthesword@hotmail.com

Makeshift Workshop Skills For Survival and Self-Reliance

Hey MD,Being a mechanic & having a 30×30 shop, the makeshift workshop skills would be right up my alley.I'm sure I could put it to good use. Even if I don't win ,Thanks for the freebies. kauffmand@comcast.net

I would choose the Shoestring Survivalist. It has been on my list for quite awhile (literally at paperback swap.) I wanted to say the $50 and up Underground House book, but I'm not in a position to build anything any time soon so the other book would be much more practical.

hopeforluck@hotmail.com

I would love the Making the Best of the Basics book, keep up the good work, I read all your posts from my google reader.

Hi there. I recently discovered your site.
I would love Making The Best Of Basics – by James Talmage Stevens.

I have been building up my knowledge and research as well as practices in surivivalism the past five years or so. I think this would be a very helpful book.

Also, my question to you is when are you going to publish more of your own work.

Thank you for the free book.
Lawrence
lroberge@mapinternet .com

Read Making the Best of Basics years ago, library doesn't have a copy and I need one. Thanks for the chance.

"How to Buy Land Cheap, 5th edition"

I'm attempting to buy some land and put a trailer on it. Would really appreciate the book. Thanks for all the great articles.

Brent@SacredandDivine.com

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ticom(at)digivill(dot)net

I am sorry my email is rgdtennessee@gmail.com if I win. Thanks the Envirocapitalist

I think I should win the "Basics" book because my hair looks better than the rest of you.

I'll stick my hand out for anything free with dibs on the Survival Library. Nothing sounds more like prepping than something free. It also sounds like alot of free information. Thanks again for all the free stuff-mechanicyork@verizon.net

Shoestring Survivalism–That's one I don't have already that I'd be interested in reading. :)
bighorn at etv dot net

Shoestring survivalism for me..

I was all excited reading down the list and realizing there were no claims to the survival library and was hoping to win by default, then I realized the Mechanic beat me to the punch. Actually, I'm just commenting on the fact that I check your site daily (sometimes more than once a day) and it has really gotten me engaged in everything all over again. I was starting to slack and seeing everybody on here working hard on prepping has made me get moving again. I'm still gainfully employed and as such, am not interested in a free book myself. I would much rather somebody who is working with less get the opportunity. Thanks and keep up the good work.

I'd love a copy of Makeshift Workshop Skills For Survival and Self-Reliance.

We built our underground house using the $50 & up book. It was a great place. Sold it in 2005.
http://tinyurl.com/4tg2mj

Recently found your site. Really liked the ? you asked folks what they were doing this month to prepare. It gives hope that there are others out there and actually doing something!

If I could win a book it would be Making the Best of Basics. Thanks for the chance.

http://www.sharpsaddles.com

My choice would be the Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book.

bonnaburn@gmail.com

I would absolutely love the Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book. Why haven't people done this kind of building before? It makes so much more sense economically (duh), and uses less resources, so it is "green". It reminds me of the Ingalls family home in On the Banks of Plum Creek.

stephaniekoske@gmail.com

LOL, MD- you cranked up a hornet's nest this time… I am simply amazed at the number of responses. Way to go!
With the economy the way it is and the number of unemplioyed available, you're going to have a really tough decision to make as to who gets what and the Survival Library.
So, if I may be so bold- can I pick the winner?
Seriously, anyone who's looking to the future will want the Makeshift Workshop book- we'll all need some form of employment and this is a dandy starter book for gathering ideas and creating action.
Of course, buying land on the cheap is EveryMan's dream- but to build something out of it will be the challenge, so, again, I think the Workshop is the better decision.
Building an underground house would be a good book for anyone, even on our cheaply purchased land, but without the basic understanding of tools and how to use them, a waste of energy reading, so, the Workshop Skills would be an excellent primer there as well.
Shoestring Survivalism is what we're all about, but without knowing how to use the tools at our disposal, we're wasting our time, so again, the Workshop Skills is the better choice. And that, my Friend, is Making the Most of Basics.
Now… who do I vote for? Ummm, lemme think…
Shy III

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Thanks for the sweet giveaway! This book seems like it could come in real handy.

brock.bettenhausen@gmail.com

I would love the Makeshift Workshop book. Great blog, and fun giveaway!

thespavid@gmail.com

OOH! OOH! Pick me! Pick me! (giggle – modeling the way my daughter used to wave her hand in first and second grade. After that she got 'dignified'). I would love to get the Underground House for $50 or Less book! That is very generous of you. Thank you from radcliffe_im@juno.com

Making The Best Of Basics – I keep hearing about this book- always wanted to read it!

Thanks for the giveaway.

greenmen3ataol.com

Please place my name in the running for "The $50 and Up Underground House Book". I really, really want that book! Thank you.
Sincerely,
Joel the K

I read your blog everyday, can't wait for a new subject to come out..enjoy even articles on subjects that I have already finished. There's alway's a way to improve on your prep.
The Shoestring Survivalism would be the book I would pick. I'm thinking that there is something in there that I may have missed.

I need to find some junk land or something really cheap, I will start out with an old RV trailer I bought and work up to an actual house of brick with a metal/tun roof to ward off fire, the "How to Buy Land Cheap" would certainly aid the cause and I would be happy to loan it to another of your readers once I am finished reading it. Maybe we could start a prepper lending library of sorts based around your blog, USPS book rates are pretty cheap, and many times I only need to read a book and make notes to glean the useful knowledge.
I'd be happy to add my titles to the lending library as well…

sean . obriant @ gmail . com

Making the Best of Basics would be great!

Alternative is Shoestring Survival!

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oscar615 @ hotmail.com

Having seen how the world seems to be going and knowing first hand that technology fails, I have recently started to be serious about preparedness and am planning on improving my small piece of land to more of a homestead rather than just a home. And since I have always been more of a "hands on" type of guy, I think the makeshift skills book would be a huge help to me in this process. I also am thinking that they had a better grip on reality in the real world, back in the day, so I believe this book would help me get an idea of how to do things the old way and be more self sufficient. It also would help me to save money in these trying times.

I have added spaces in my email so hopefully the spambots don't get it. You will need to remove them when contacting me after I win the book. ;-) Thanks for the contest.

oscar615 @ hotmail.com

If chosen, I would like Shoestring Survivalism. Thanks for offering this!

r m mock sport ler @ ya hoo . com (no spaces in address)

Hello -

I was thinking about building a root cellar and then checked your blog so I guess I would like to be included for The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book.

thanks

You give me a hard choice! I think James Stevens Making the Best of Basics would be my pick. recon369armor@yahoo.com

Since this is thesurvivalistblog, I'll relate to my choice from a survival stand point. The golden hoarde is flocking toward the five books, my chances of receiving a book from this location are slim. However only a few people have requested the CD, so I'm requesting the Survival Library because my odds are much better there. Besides, the CD is unique, I can't get it from a library or book swap. All the others I can easily obtain that information for free somewhere else more effectively. Now the problem is by highlighting my intention I have blown OPSEC and now that hoard will flock to the CD. And I hope everybody practiced OPSEC by creating a temporary email address for this purpose.

tsbcontest@hotmail.com

Making the Best of Basics.
There are lots of books about preparedness and I've read a lot of them. In many ways each is like a specialized cook book. One on deserts, one on breads and scones, another on how to cook Chinese, or Italian. But my favorite cook book is an entire course on cooking. It sets up a framework for cooking, provides exercises, the basics before the advanced. I may be wrong, but from reviews and blurbs, Making the best of Basics seems to fit this latter, more comprehensive category. Preparedness isn't just about beans, or bullets, or gold. It's everyday readiness. I have a feeling I'm going to find what I'm looking for in this "text book" of preparedness manuals. Mark. mrbartle@pharmanex.com

How to Buy Land Cheap – sounds like a winner. Speaking of which, in the last month this email account has won hundreds of millions of dollars, most of which are in dead people’s bank accounts in Burkina Faso and Nigeria.

Clearly with all of this spare cash I could afford to buy all the books I want but I just can’t resist the lure of winning so here is my email address: myanonymouslife@hotmail.com

petecolorado

shouldn't this post be called: "Stand up and be Counted" ?

id love to own
Makeshift Workshop Skills For Survival and Self-Reliance homestead tools and skills for survival

thanks for doing what you do MD

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i'd like to enter for 'how to buy land cheap'. some land would do me real good!
thanks for the blog!

Makeshift Workshop Skills For Survival and Self-Reliance is the book of these five that I and other people should desire. Should the SHTF, people will need the knowledge this book contains to make a difference in surviving better than others.

M.D. You have uncovered the basic need of most of your readership. With limited resources we all buy, trade or make the things we can't aford. The chance of a free book that could be a lifesaver for the family is something not to be passed up. If my comment is lucky enough to be picked I would like Makeshift Workshop Skills For Survival and Self-Reliance.

We have recently been able to pack up our BOB's and leave the city population for a place in the country. After reading your blog and others about what we need to acquire to survive the book would be invaluable in providing the how to part. There are many projects that need to be completed to privide a safe retreat for the family. The skills must be learned and if the book can be put to use before and after the SHTF it will be truely treasured.

W.D.
netcorral@embarqmail.com

I am so excited to read your blog. I have 4 children under 4 and am just getting started food storage. I realize now that when the lights go out I have to be ready for the little ones that don't understand. I would be interested in Making the best of basics. I have heard this is wonderful and I could use the help. In the mountains where we are at the lights go out alot but not for long. Now I will be ready if they do thank you for all you do. Tami tjklundt@aol.com

I would have chosen the $50 and up underground house book until I go to the 6th alternative… Survival Library on CD! That is my choice!

Making Workshop Skills for Survival and Self-Reliance

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