Prepping for Dummies, 2013

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Free Sun Oven or Excalibur Dehydrator During the Final Week of the Year



Safecastle's Global Sun Oven Package

We're wrapping up an incredible series of 18 weekly "Repel the Chaos" offers for our buyers club members with another doozy ...

Any member who makes a purchase in our store of at least $950, from December 26-31, will receive their choice of a free Sun Oven package (value $390) or an Excalibur 9-Tray Dehydrator (value $300)!

Offer details here.

Other End-of-the-Year Opportunities

-  Our December Inventory Blowout Sale ends 12/31/12. Still plenty of awesome deals to be had.

-  And, the big "Repel the Chaos" prize drawing for an AEB OX Mini Power Plant Solar Generator (value $2999) will take place January 1, 2013.

Safecastle in ABC News Report

I was interviewed a couple of days ago by ABC news for this story, although we do nothing at all to market the Mayan thing. I guess we were supposed to be the business in the story that takes preparedness seriously.

See:  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/businesses-poke-fun-market-mayan-end-world/story?id=17907814

Week 17's Christmas Offer: Free Bibles and Donations to the Salvation Army

As we approach the Christmas holiday, we are reminded how much we are all in need of the loving promise of God's faithfulness and compassion.

From December 17-25, Week 17 of the Safecastle Repel the Chaos program, Safecastle is providing each buyers club member who makes a purchase of at least $250 with a gift certificate worth $30 to be used at DiscountBible.com for any bible or accessory there. Also, for each qualifying $250 order, we will donate a total of $30 to the Salvation Army for disaster and poverty relief. Details here.

May the blessings of Christmas be with you today and always.

Week 16: Qualifying Orders Get Free Gift Certificates of $50 or $125

AEB OX Mini Power Plant Solar Generator

Our 2012 Repel the Chaos program has been cranking out crazy-huge freebie offers every week for four months now. The end is near (the end of the 2012 Repel the Chaos program, I mean). And in fact, the biggest prize drawing of all, for an AEB OX Mini Power Plant Solar Generator is just three weeks away, so be sure you are in the drawing (see this).

This 16th week, from Dec. 10-16, buyers club members who make any purchase totaling at least $350 will receive a free Safecastle Gift Certificate worth $50 ...

or, if spending more than $800, a gift certificate worth $125!!

Maybe, just maybe a Safecastle gift certificate is that perfect gift for the prepper who is serious about his or her preparedness.

Week 15 Freebies: Totally RAD Kit, including NukAlert, Radstickers, N95 Masks, KI

Kicking butt and taking names ...

Not only are we rolling inventory out the door with our December Blowout Sale, but our Repel the Chaos Week 15 member freebies offer is quite simply Totally RAD! That is, we are offering our buyers club members who make any purchase in our store this week (from Dec. 3-9) totaling at least $490 a free kit (value $269) that includes:

 

1 NukAlert

 

1 box of 20 3M N95 Masks

 

3 RadStickers

 

1 bottle (90 caps) of Potassium Iodide

See the Repel the Chaos page for details and limitations, as well as info on our prize drawings.

Stay safe! 

Safecastle's December Inventory Blowout Sale is ON

Only while supplies last--we are clearing inventory at the end of the year. Crazy discount prices that our customers have come to expect from us--especially at this time of the year ...

Move fast because many of these items are VERY limited in quantity.

SHOP HERE

 

Oh, and if these huge discounts aren't enough (not to mention our free shipping to the lower 48), our buyers club members also can reap the current weekly "Repel the Chaos" freebies and/or the ongoing Royalty Rewards incentives.

 

Quite simply, this opportunity is unbeatable.


ALSO ... Congrats to our November drawing winners:

Our November club-member drawing winners as specified in our Repel the Chaos program--each of whom will receive their choice of Mountain House food cases as listed in our store (value to $400 each!):  Jason J. (Order #17267) and Christopher D. (Order #17221)

And our Facebook drawing winner for November, who will receive a Mountain House Essentials Bucket of freeze dried food:  Ronnie H.


Note--the December Facebook drawing will again be for a MH bucket. Just like our FB page and share the contest announcement which you will find on our page. The December Repel the Chaos drawing is HUGE--the culmination of our 2012 Repel the Chaos promo. One lucky winner will receive an AEB OX Mini Power Plant Solar Generator, value of $2999!

Last few days: 3 great prepping opportunities

Nov. 30 is Last Day of Mountain House Sale Prices on Select Canned Favorites
Also--great odds on winning your choice of MH food in our Nov. drawing!  

Three Separate Deadlines:

1. From November 26 to December 2, during Week 14 of our ongoing "Repel the Chaos" incentive program, Safecastle Buyers Club members who make any purchase of at least $600 in our store will receive a free bundle that includes a robust Firebox Folding Stove (uses any fuel), the patented aerospace-quality Aurora Firestarter, and two ReadyFuel packets. This kit is a must-have in any bug-out bag, and makes an excellent gift for outdoorsmen. Check the product videos at the linked store listing above. 

No coupon codes required--qualified member purchases automatically receive the goodies in our back-office fulfillment process. Previously issued incentive awards such as Royalty Rewards gift certificates that are used do not count toward the required minimum purchase for this offer. Other discounts, such as MH dealer price-matching do not qualify for this offer.

One weekly incentive package per member. If available supplies for a specified incentive reward are depleted before the end of the incentive period, an equivalent incentive will be offered instead. (Speaking about incentive rewards, note that our Royalty Rewards program for Mountain House can case purchases remains in effect, further multiplying your potential bounty.)

2. Also--our last MH sale of the year is still running thru November 30. We are offering discounted sale prices on seven family-favorite varieties of Mountain House can cases--for members and non-members alike (while members also receive Royalty Rewards gift certificates for qualifying purchases).

 

3. Lastly, our November Repel the Chaos monthly drawings will award two lucky winners their choice of any listed Mountain House food in our store!! See details. Winners will be drawn from eligible entries/qualifying purchases received in November.

Week 14: Free Kit including a Firebox, ReadyFuel Packets and Aurora Firestarter

From November 26 to December 2, during Week 14 of our ongoing Repel the Chaos incentive program, Safecastle Buyers Club members who make any purchase of at least $600 in our store will receive a free bundle that includes a robust Firebox Folding Stove (use any fuel), the patented aerospace-quality Aurora Firestarter, and two ReadyFuel packets.

This kit is a must-have in any bug-out bag, and makes an excellent gift for outdoorsmen.

Check the product videos at the linked store listing above.

Week 13--Free Ghee, MREs, Green Coffee, & Goal Zero Guide 10 Kits!!

My resident bean counter is kicking me but I'm feeling quite thankful this week for the bounty of my blessed life. Many reasons to be thankful to God and I am doing my best to generously share with our friends and customers.

Week 13 of our ongoing Repel the Chaos program is kind of crazy, I will admit. This is an easily achievable ladder of club member incentive giveaways that will help you get squared away fast for the times ahead.

Our November 19-25 Offer for Safecastle Buyers Club Members:

Members who make any purchase totaling at least ...
- $150 will receive a free case of Ghee (clarified butter)
- $450 will receive the Ghee PLUS a case of Sopakco MREs
- $990 will receive the Ghee AND the MRES AND a free case of Green Coffee Beans
- $1500 will receive the Ghee, MRES, Coffee, AND a Goal Zero Guide 10 Plus Adventure Kit

That's over $550 worth of great, free preps thrown in on a member purchase of $1500 or more, on top of any regular member discounts, sale prices, Royalty Rewards rebate, and our normal free shipping!
 

No coupon codes required--qualified member purchases automatically receive the goodies in our back-office fulfillment process. Previously issued incentive awards such as Royalty Rewards gift certificates that are used do not count toward the required minimum purchase for this offer. Other discounts, such as MH dealer price-matching do not qualify for this offer.

One weekly incentive package per member. If available supplies for a specified incentive reward are depleted before the end of the incentive period, an equivalent incentive will be offered instead. (Speaking about incentive rewards, note that our Royalty Rewards program for Mountain House can case purchases remains in effect, further multiplying your potential bounty.)

Storage Food is Flying Off the Shelves ... Backorders at Various Factories Expected

Consider this a public service announcement and fair warning ...

Such high volumes of storage food orders are being placed to food suppliers over the last week to two weeks that I am pretty sure we're going into another period when storage foods are going to be backordered at the factory. If you recall last year, that can go as long as 5-6 months in no time at all.

Why now? You'd have to poll the buyers to be nail it down, but I suspect any or all of these events are being considered as motivation (I doubt that I need to explain more):  the Hurricane Sandy aftermath, the election, the fiscal cliff, an erupting war in the Middle East.

Stay safe.

Free Mountain House Food Buckets and NukAlerts! Week 12 of Repel the Chaos

The beat goes on. This is perhaps the best value of our ongoing "Repel the Chaos" series of weekly offers ... Week 12.

November 12-18 Offer: 

Buyers Club Members who make any purchase totaling at least ...
- $550 will receive a free Mountain House Essentials Bucket

- $800 will receive the MH Essentials AND Classic Buckets
- $1100 will receive both MH buckets PLUS a free NukAlert

Also--thru November, we are offering discounted sale prices on seven family-favorite Mountain House can varieties--for members and non-members alike (while members also receive Royalty Rewards gift certificates for qualifying purchases).

From Safecastle's Veterans to Our 21.5-million Fellow U.S. Veterans ...

Stand tall!

Remember Post-Katrina? Sandy May Also Bring a Huge Prepping Surge

Those of you prepping several years ago in the Hurricane Katrina era may or may not recall how prepping supplies and emergency storage foods went totally out of stock for several months afterward.

FEMA bought everything they could find after Katrina and shipped it all down to the Gulf Coast (and a lot of it went to waste, never to be distributed). No one else could lay hands on storage food or water filters, etc. for weeks and months afterwards.

Then when suppliers did start to get product back out to retailers in volume, the whole prepping industry went into overdrive because the population at large had gotten a wake-up jolt and bought everything in sight as it did come back onto the market--particularly MREs and freeze-dried foods. That subsequent demand surge lasted well over a year and customers were having to wait on average around 6-8 weeks for their orders to deliver during that period.

This post-Sandy situation is beginning to remind me of how things went down in 2005. There are folks still waiting desperately for help. People who are hungry are begging for food. The media is slowly finding the tragic angles. It's getting to be a political issue and fingers are being pointed back and forth.

I don't get the feeling this is of the same scale in terms of human suffering as what Katrina was, so FEMA is probably not going to lay waste to all available inventories of food and preps as they did seven years ago. But what I am beginning to get a sense of is that this is again going to be awakening another large segment of the population out there about how important it is that they take care of their own households before disaster strikes, since clearly you do not want to be waiting for the cavalry to come in to rescue you and yours.

Vic Rantala owns Safecastle, a leading crisis preparedness provider for over 10 years.

Mountain House Sale - and a Free PREPARED.PRO Crisis Pack, value $249!

More great prepping savings here to report, and another unparalleled freebie offer for our Safecastle buyers club members ...

1.  A limited Mountain House food sale is on now thru November. A total of seven family-favorite Mountain House canned varieties are on sale at 10-25% off. Everything always ships free of course to the continental U.S.

2.  Buyers club members are receiving their Royalty Rewards gift certificates for their qualifying Mountain House purchases ... $20 gift certificates for every three can cases purchased in a transaction.

3.  Now thru November 11, members are also receiving a free PREPARED.PRO Crisis Pack, value $249, when they purchase at least 6 cases of Mountain House cans. This is our Week 11 "Repel the Chaos" offer--one weekly offer per customer.

4.  Finally, we just introduced Paypal's "Bill Me Later" for purchases of $99 or more, making it easier than ever to take advantage of our special preparedness opportunities--just when you need it the most.

--Congratulations to Helena F., order #16938. Helena is the winner of our October Repel the Chaos prize drawing for a Country Living Grain Mill, value $449. Our November Repel the Chaos drawing will be for two lucky qualifying members--their choice of any Mountain House case of freeze-dried food!

And congratulations also to Irene M., winner of a Mountain House Essentials Bucket in our monthly Facebook drawing.

Week 10: Free Lifestraw Water Filters!

Week 10 of Safecastle's ongoing "Repel the Chaos" series of member freebie giveaways has the revolutionary Lifestraw water filters sailing out the door.

Supplies are limited, so this offer is good for three days only (or while supplies last): Oct. 29-31.

Any buyers club member purchase of at least $150 automatically gets a free Lifestraw ($25 value). Or, any member purchase of $300 or more gets two free Lifestraws!

See our Repel the Chaos program details and limitations here.

More good news ... at Safecastle you can now get 6 months to pay on purchases of $99+ when you check out with Paypal and choose "Bill Me Later." Details in our store.

Week 9: Free NukAlerts and Katadyn Varios!

Free top-quality preps are the kind of score anyone can appreciate. True to form, Safecastle is coming through once again during this ninth week of the killer "Repel the Chaos" series of offers to our customers.

From October 19-28 (or while supplies last), our buyers club members who make any purchase of Lindon Farms foods and/or Mountain House canned foods totaling ...

- at least $777 will receive a free NukAlert, value $177

- or at least $999 will receive the NukAlert PLUS a Katadyn Vario, value $99!

One weekly Repel the Chaos offer per member please. The free items are automatically added in our fulfillment process--they will not appear in your cart.

Repel the Chaos, Weeks 7 & 8: FREE Case of Black Beans w/ 3 Cases of White Rice!

Need economical, quality calories to bulk up your food storage?

Try this on for size:  112,250 calories in these four cases of food. Buy 3 cases of long grain white rice and score a FREE case of black beans.

That's 56 days of sustenance at 2000 calories a day!

Get it right here.

Final Day of Last Full Mountain House Food Sale of 2012 - Free Canned Butter, Ghee, More

Member Rewards Certificates of $20 per every 3 MH Can Cases plus Incentives including Firebox Folding Stove, Case of Ghee, Case of Canned Butter!

 

NOTE: The current 25%-off all Mountain House #10 can varieties ends Sunday night, 10/7. It is our last allotted MH full sale period of the year.  SHOP HERE

The 25%-off discounts on ALL MH cans continues thru 10/7. The new Week 6 Repel the Chaos incentives offer is in effect thru Sunday, 10/7. Take advantage now of these max. MH discounts, that also qualify you for member Royalty Rewards gift certificates of $20 for every 3 MH can cases purchased. The additional Repel the Chaos incentives are detailed below (the Repel the Chaos prizes are achieved with member purchases of ANY Safecastle merchandise--not just MH food--they are automatically added to your shipments with a qualified order).



Only at Safecastle, through the end of the year, "Repel the Chaos"...

Every week we are offering generous new buyers-club-member purchase incentives, so be sure to check in weekly to make sure you don't miss some excellent opportunities.

The Week #6 incentive offer is a nice food-prep complement, coinciding with the end of the LAST Maximum Mountain House Sale of 2012 ...

WORTH NOTING AGAIN: The purchase levels below are for any member purchase in our store--not just Mountain House food.

From Oct. 1-7 only (Eastern time) ... Collect all three of these incentives! ...

1. Club members who make a purchase totaling least $750 earn a Firebox Folding Stove with 2 ReadyFuel Packets.

2. Make a purchase of at least $1450 and receive a the Firebox AND a free case of Ghee.

3. A purchase of $2100 or more gets you the Firebox, Ghee AND a case of Red Feather Butter!

-- Best of all, thru Sunday, October 7, we are discounting all Mountain House can cases at 25% and MH Strawberries at 33%!

For more on the Repel the Chaos prizes, monthly drawings and these incentives, see the details.

25%-Off MH Cans Discount Ends 10/7; Week 6 'Repel the Chaos' Incentives Package in Effect!

Rewards Certificates of $20 per every 3 MH Can Cases plus Incentives including Firebox Folding Stove, Case of Ghee, Case of Canned Butter!

NOTE: The current 25%-off all Mountain House #10 can varieties ends Sunday night, 10/7. It is our last allotted MH full sale period of the year. The 25%-off discounts on ALL MH cans continues thru 10/7. The new Week 6 Repel the Chaos incentives offer is in effect thru Sunday, 10/7. Take advantage now of these max. MH discounts, that also qualify you for member Royalty Rewards gift certificates of $20 for every 3 MH can cases purchased. The additional Repel the Chaos incentives are detailed below (the Repel the Chaos prizes are achieved with member purchases of ANY Safecastle merchandise--not just MH food--they are automatically added to your shipments with a qualified order). Only at Safecastle, through the end of the year, "Repel the Chaos"... Every week we are offering generous new buyers-club-member purchase incentives, so be sure to check in weekly to make sure you don't miss some excellent opportunities. The Week #6 incentive offer is a nice food-prep complement, coinciding with the end of the LAST Maximum Mountain House Sale of 2012 ... WORTH NOTING AGAIN: The purchase levels below are for any member purchase in our store--not just Mountain House food. From Oct. 1-7 only (Eastern time) ... Collect all three of these incentives! ... 1. Members who make a purchase totaling least $750 earn a Firebox Folding Stove with 2 ReadyFuel Packets. 2. Make a purchase of at least $1450 and receive a the Firebox AND a free case of Ghee. 3. A purchase of $2100 or more gets you the Firebox, Ghee AND a case of Red Feather Butter! -- Best of all, thru Sunday, October 7, we are discounting all Mountain House can cases at 25% and MH Strawberries at 33%! For more on the Repel the Chaos prizes, monthly drawings and these incentives, see the details. Oh--and we did have a winner for the September Repel the Chaos prize drawing. Congrats to Barbara D.--the lucky winner of a new 9-Tray Excalibur Dehydrator! And congratulations too to our September Facebook drawing winner of a free MH Essentials Food Bucket--Allyn M.!