Giveaway: ‘The Penny-Pinching Prepper.’

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thThe time to prepare for disasters – or even moderate inconveniences – is before they happen. This week’s giveaway can help.

“The Penny-Pinching Prepper: Save More, Spend Less and Get Prepared for Any Disaster” is the latest book from Bernie Carr, she of the Apartment Prepper blog.

Ignore the stereotypes about wild-eyed prepper nutcases stockpiling bullets and Spam. Preparing for power outages, extreme weather and the like just makes sense. In fact, the government urges us all to have at least several days’ worth of supplies on hand. Just ask anyone who’s ever lived through an ice storm whether it’s a bad idea to be a prepper.

 

“Since I started the journey to be more prepared, I have found lots of ways to save myself both time and money,” Carr says in the introduction.

In addition to the usual prepper topics of food, shelter and hygiene, Carr talks about topics like first aid, cleaning, communication, safety/defense, mobility, food preservation and– this is important – finding the money to pay for prepping.

“By adopting a mindset of being ready, you will avoid lots of unnecessary expenses and wasted time. You can start your preparedness journey and save money simultaneously,” says the author, who lives in a large city in Texas.

Bonus: The book is small enough to fit in your bug-out bag.

So get ready, get set…prep! Or at least enter to win a copy by doing one or more of the following:

Be sure to leave a separate comment for each entry (e.g., “Subscribed to your writing newsletter” or “Follow you on Twitter”).

The deadline to enter is 7 p.m. PDT Wednesday, Aug 17. If I don’t hear back from the winner by 7 p.m. PDT Thursday, Aug. 18, I’ll have the random number generator pull a new name.

Note: Due to the high cost of international shipping, a winner from outside the United States will receive an Amazon gift card.

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91 thoughts on “Giveaway: ‘The Penny-Pinching Prepper.’”

  16. Yes. Want this. Have bullets, prefer to can meat and bypass the spam (probably a few cans in the horde. Hopefully the need arises when we have a few things producing on our acre. Let’s have it happen when the fruit is ripe!

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  20. I’d like to read this book. We survived an 8 day ice storm with no power because we are campers and had the equipment to warm ourselves and cook on with gas logs in the house. Disasters abound. We all need to be ready! Thanks for the opportunity.

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  30. This sounds interesting. Hubby is an Eagle Scout and I was a Girl Scout, so we are usually somewhat prepared. We weathered Hurricane Sandy pretty well.

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  39. I would love this book. During Sandy, we were 7 days with no power. Sleeping bags on the bed kept us warm at night. The next town over had power, diners and working gas stations. I keep a basement store after Sandy.

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  53. I admit I have read your articles on being prepared, I have read government pamphlets on being prepared, I live in a wildfire area, but I’m not prepared. This book sounds good to get me started.

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  55. I live in Hurricane Central and I also found out quite unexpectedly this June that I am woefully under-prepared for freak flash flooding. Thank you for the chance!

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  67. Always have had food for 3 weeks, but just started making plans for similar time without water. Looks like this book would be helpful for next steps. As always, thank you!

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  85. This book sounds like a great introduction to preparedness. I could use that!
    I keep some canned food in the pantry, batteries in the fridge, and I have candles and matches, flashlights, and a radio that operates on batteries, but that is probably just entry-level, get by for a day or two.

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