It’s been several months since our last giveaway – so I thought today would be as good a day as any to start another. This time we’re going to do something different by running two different contests consecutively, one for blog readers and another for readers with blogs.
Contest For Readers
Okay first up is for blog readers. I have several books for you – all you need to do is leave a comment telling me which one you want and why you think it would be most useful to you. Entries for each book will be drawn at random to choose the winners.
Thats it. Tuesday of next week, I’ll announce the winners and contact each to get their shipping information…
Books Include:
- Living Well On Practically Nothing
- Self-Sufficiency Gardening
- Eating Well For .99 A meal
- Your Money Or Your Life
- How To Hide Anything
- Flour Power
Good luck and looking forward to your comments…
Contest For Readers With Blogs
Okay, this contest is for other bloggers with the prize being a Go Berkey Water Filter System (a $139.00 value).
It’s simple really, all you have to do is post the following paragraph in a post on your blog (all links and link text must be included) then send me an email with a link back to your post.
If everything is as it should be I’ll throw your name in the hat for the drawing on June 3, 2010.
Copy and paste this into a post on your blog:
M.D. Creekmore over at the The Survivalist Blog – a survival blog dedicated to helping others prepare for and survive disaster – with articles on bug out bag contents, survival knife choices and a wealth of other survival information is giving away a Go Berkey Water Filter System (a $139.00 value)! To enter, you just have to post about it on your blog. This is my entry. Visit The Survivalist Blog for the details.
Good luck to all…
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I would like the book “Self-Sufficiency Gardening”. I am fairly new to gardening and would prefer to have most of my food come from my garden.
I’m a reader of blogs. So I’ll pick a book: Self-Sufficiency Gardening. I am picking this book because I am a new homeowner and just beginning to garden.
I read this blog daily, so my pick would be “Living Well on Practically Nothing.” I’ve got an extensive library going, but very little of what I have covers this sort of philosophy. I own copies of books covering the other subjects.
With the economy hurtling towards instability, I’d prefer to hone my “neo-depression era” skills. The S can HTF on Wall Street just as easily as it can hit on my street… My pick reminds me of “The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving” by Hoffman. Absolute must-read.
All of them seem interesting, but to pick just ONE I would have to go with “Living Well on Practically Nothing.”
The benefits to focusing on getting the most life out of your dollars appeals to me, and likely has the most “take aways” for me.
Thanks, MD!
“How to Hide Anything” – I’d like to have this book, compared to the others, due to the nature of where and how I live. I live in a suburban subdivion on the outskirts of a large city. I don’t have access to a bug-out property if TSHTF so I need to utilize my postage stamp property, modest home and surrounding areas/parks/open spaces to build up stores and hides and to safeguard against the inevitable. Thinking outside the box is hard and some inspiration is needed.
Hi DM
I would like if possible ” How to live well on practically nothing”. I am a new self sufficiency convert and am concerned about the present state of the economy and believe that things will get a lot worse before they get better..
I thank you for your time and effort
Bob
I would like to throw my hat in the ring for the “Self Sufficiency Gardening” book.
My wife and I live in a modest home downtown in a small town of about 10,000. We don’t have a backyard, only a side yard and front.
This year we took about 1/4 of our side yard and built raised beds and have begun growing our own food. Our hope is three-part: to decrease our dependency on the grocery store (specifically Wal-Mart), to teach our kids about gardening the way we weren’t (that it can be fun), and to inspire our neighbors (who are predominantly lower-middle to poverty income levels) to be more self-sufficient and less dependent on others.
This year, vegetables and fruit trees. Next year we’ve talked about rabbits. All this, and we live just 4.5 blocks from City Hall.
Must say they all look like they would add value to the knowledge base… but since you have asked for just one title, I’d pick “Living Well On Practically Nothing”. As a single parent, it is a challenge to ensure that all the needs are met and that the levels of preparedness are maintained. While I think we are doing pretty well, I am always game for suggestions that will improve our options and opportunities. Thanks!
Living Well On Practically Nothing. I enjoy books on frugal living . If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
I would like Eating well for .99 a meal. With this book, gardening, keeping chickens, and dumpster diving, I think I’ll be A-OK. Thanks:)
I’d like to win How To Hide Anything. We’ve been starting our stockpile and I think this book would help us.
“Self Sufficiency Gardening:
We need to improve our garden.
Well I was going to say I could use the “Live Well For Practically Nothing” but I think I’ve gotten most of that sort of information from your site and free ebook. The “How To Hide Anything” book would be perfect for me, seeing as I’m an unfortuante apartment dweller. I’ve been looking for different ways to potentially squirrel away some firearms and ammo and that book should definetely point me in the right direction.
I have heard about “Your Money or Your Life” but I have not read it. I think it would be especially good for my spend thrift daughter and her extravagant spending husband. Maybe with this book I wouldn’t have to buy so much of their survival stuff.
I think I would opt for Flour Power..I just got a new grain mill and was looking for a book that would be very useful. I need to learn more about milling and flour. I looked it up and had it on my favorties list when when I read your contest today.
PREPARE FOR THE WORST AND PRAY FOR THE BEST
Thats hard but I guess I would pick “How To Hide Anything”. I have a small amount of preps, and no place to put them.
The book I would like is “Self-Sufficiency Gardening”. I am fairly new to all this and need all the help I can get in the journey towards self-sufficiency”. Thanks !!
“How to Hide Anything” would be my choise. With all the groups who will be coming to look for anything of yours that they want to be theirs any help in keeping your material goods will be of great value
Living Well on Practically Nothing would be my choice.
I would love to have “Self-Sufficiency Gardening.” I am building my first garden this summer so I’m going to need that knowledge!
Being new to prepping my first choice would be “The Dirt Cheap Survival Retreat”, ……unfortunately not on the list. So if I am the lucky reader I will select Living Well on Practically Nothing, although How to Hide Anything sounds good too.
M.D., Thanks for all your work. We’re just getting started and the information we’ve found here has already kept us from making rookie mistakes.
God Bless You and God Bless America….(I’m afraid we’re gonna need it)
I really do not need any additional books or materials. I just wanted to thank you for the blog and offerings you make to everyone. Good luck to everyone.
JG
I don’t need anymore books unless it tells me something I know nothing about, and can’t learn through experience. The more time I spend reading, the less time I spend actually preparing. Gardening is hard, and it’s good to have a reference, but to actually read a book on gardening is like reading an entire cookbook when you only need one recipe.
“How to Hide Anything” Gardening and living well are ok but if you can’t hide the fruits of your labor or the means to defend them or those you care for it will be taken. This could affect not only you, but your ability to provide for your group (family, friends or whomever). No one truly know the extent of how things will go down. You may end up having to hide gardening tools, because you might be forbidden to grow your own food. Truly worse case scenario…hiding a loved one to give them a chance, when you’re taken away. I would gladly face the beast, so that those I care for are given a chance, even if it’s a small one.
I would love the book: Flour Power.
Ok, why? Simple. In prepping , it is I not merely important to have supplies, but KNOW what to DO with them! Frankly, if you store grain or have a mill, you need to know what you can do with them as well as to remain creative with these items. Frankly, after a disaster or SHTF etc., it will be a challenge to strive to use the resources in the best way to use nutrients as well as avoid food fatigue (or other stressful factors).
Frankly, IF you introduce many of the proper grain and food strategies BEFORE hand, then use of the flour and mill resources will not appear different and hence reduce stressors for the “survivors” and maintain proper nutrition after SHTF.
Best wishes.
Lawrence
You are so right about implementing the way of life NOW so that you are truly prepared for the SHingTF. Also a great way to know if your family will even eat the things you are storing.
“The 99 Cent a Meal Cookbook” is attractive as I’m planning a concerted effort to do & document just that.
The book I could use the most is Flour Power. Our storage foods contain a lot of wheat berries and corn. We just recently purchased a grain mill but have not tried to bake bread yet. There is a lot you can do with wheat ie quick breads and breakfast creals but in the end we are going to have to learn to produce a loaf of bread. I think sourdough is the most practile to concentrate on since yeast has a shelf life even frozen it will only store 4 years or maybe a little more. I wonder how long what ever happens will last. Best to prepare for the worst.
If I am geven the book Flour Power I would post our learning process of learning to bake bread or other things we learn from the book on your blog at the very least I will post a review of the book.
Curtis
I’m going for :FLOUR POWER: it might help me start eating heathier. THANKS M.D. grest blog!
M.D., put my name in on the “Self-sufficiency Gardening” book. I’m moving to north-central Arkansas, and I need to learn how to garden there, as opposed to a cattle ranch in west Texas. Wish me luck.
Flour Power would be the most useful simply because we have well over 1000 pounds of grain (red wheat, white wheat, spelt, dent corn, rye, along with a few oddities such as millet and quinoa) and mills for grinding. A variety of things to do with it would be welcome.
I would like “Living Well On Practically Nothing” I have a lot of books on survival, but I don’t have this book. I have seen it and wanted to get it just never did.
I would have to say the Self-Sufficiency Gardening book. Because within the last year our family of 4 just recently purchased our 1st home on 2 acres in a very rural area of Texas. My wife and I are new to gardening and with 2 very young sons now would be the time to get them interested as well. Plus we would like to get the maximum yield off of our land. It would be kind of a waste to have to acres with nothing growing on it. (except weeds lol!)
I would Like the book Self-Sufficiency Gardening. That is one of the few things left that I really need to master to feel prepared. I know the honest truth is that I will never truely be fully prepared, but I have a strong grasp of all the concepts except this. I woul like this to augments my knowledge and maybe start a with a seed bank and take it from there. I guess my planning will start around what is found in the book.
Eating Well for .99 a Meal
With the economy tanking, this seems like a wise choice. Thank you for offering your readers these books.
I think I would like Flour Power. I have quite a few books on gardening, food preservation and storage. I think Flour Power would be a great book to start building a not quite so lop-sided library.
I believe that Living Well On Practically Nothing would serve a greater purpose than the others. Being disabled, even before, this was a method practiced regularly. BTW, the choices given were kind of like which dog do get rid of? A tough one, but this works.
My pick would be “Living well on practically nothing”. We have 5 kids and could always use tips on saving money/resources.
Great blog!
All of your book titles sound interesting and timely. I would appreciate winning any of them. In particular: “Living Well on Practically Nothing” would be appropriae for me as I was just laid off from my job. Actually, I am 57 and was the oldest in my department with the most service. I feel like they threw me away like a piece of trash. I am being creative and living on what I have. Good Luck to me! and Thank you.
I’m going to have to go with the Self Sufficiency Gardening, although the Live Well for Practically Nothing looks really informative as well!
I would like deep survival. I enjoy reading and hearing what others feel it takes to condition ones mindset.
All great books, but I think I’d love to have How To Hide Anything!
M.D. I would be able to make very good use of Self-Sufficiency Gardening. I will be retiring from the Navy shortly and my wife and I plan on making a go of homesteading and subsistence farming. While I have a good idea of how I am going to work this, any and all information is welcomed. I will have spent 20 years of my life defending the constitution and America, I feel it is my continuing duty to be as little of a burden on the nation by being as self sufficient as possible.
Ken
“Living Well on Practically Nothing.” would be my pick, as I’m always looking dfor ideas on how to shift money from living expenses to prepping.
I was going to enter for a chance at a free book. I would have picked “Living well on practically nothing”, because who knows if I’ll have a job or not 3 months from now. However, I would ask you to donate a book for me to somebody who needs it more if I should win. I’ll be self-reliant and by my own copy while I still have an income.
How To Hide Anything would be my pick of the books. You never know when that would come in handy!
I’d like Self Sufficiency Gardening, as we’ve never really done any gardening, and really don’t know where to start!
I would like “Your Money Or Your Life.” I would like to be introduced to the lifestyle of survival living.
I would like the book :how to hide practically anything.
Living well on Practically Nothing would be my choice because this is where our country is headed! Thanks for the opportunity MD.
I would like the book “Self Sufficiency Gardening”. I spend hundreds of dollars each year prepping and conditioning my garden and I just don’t seem to get the results that I am looking for. I think this book would be a great help to increase my production and lower my gardening costs.
“Living Well On Practically Nothing” , because that’s where I’m heading.
“How to Hide Anything”
Because we are paying cash for most things now.
Only using the debit card to pay bills.
Thank you for a choice of books.
Selene
Hi! I’d like to enter for the Secrets Of Street Survival – Israeli Style. I already live on the cheap in a homemade yurt, cook on a wood stove, I know what I eat, how to get it, how to go hungry and how to conserve. But I don’t have a clue how the Israelis trained our police to fight civilians. Great blog! thanks.
“Flour Power”
Because I’m just beginning to store grain and I need to know how to use it.
Thanks
Flour power. I have a boat load of wheat and need some fresh ideas.
Hi – I would be interested in “Your Money or Your Life”. I was inspired by a guy who wrote a blog for awhile, “Homesteading Hickory Hills”. Basically, he read the book and set about to completely change his life. I loved his blog but he took it down, probably because of crazy folks. Anyhow, the fact that he was so inspired by it makes me want to read it too!
The book I would like the most is Self-Sufficiency Gardening. Each year I add more to my garden and learn new skills to put away food. I am far from where I would like to be, but improving each year. Great give away!
I am interested in: How To Hide Anything as our larder is getting deeper and deeper. Thanks for the contest! Love your blog!
M.D., first wanted to say thanks for all you do. Contests like this make your blog a great read and offer those of us who are beginning to understand the issues facing us a lot of hope. I would like to make my request for “Your Money or Your Life” in your free blog readers contest. I feel this would help me to understand and work toward the lifestyle that will help my family the most in our future world of uncertainty. Keep up the good work.
My pick would also be “Living Well on Practically Nothing”. My dh makes approximately 30,000 a year and I would love to learn how to make this meet all our needs and be a homemaker so I can focus on honing some prepping skills.
Hiding my stockpile was the easiest thing to do considering I did it by accident. But winning a couple of those books would be a great library collection.
Hey! Just wanted to let you know that I posted about the Berkey filter giveaway (and book giveaway) on the IL Preppers site. 2 great giveaways!!
Also, if you’re still taking entries for the book giveaway, I’d love to be entered for the ‘How to Hide Anything’ book. (Every home we’ve been in, I’ve told hubby we have to find hiding places ‘cuz we might have to hide people like folks hid Jews in WWII!) Thanks!!
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