Video Title
Prepping on a Budget | Prime Day Haul | Prep for Black Friday / Cyber Monday
Video Description
Prepping on a Budget | Prime Day Haul
Getting Prepared can be a spendy proposition, but it doesn’t have to be. Taking advantage of sales and deals can greatly reduce how much money you need to spend.
In this video, I show you how I took advantage of Amazon’s Prime Day. I show you what I got and tell you why I got it. I talk about the upcoming big sale moments (Black Friday and Cyber Monday) and how you can prepare to take advantage of them too.
Anyone can buy supplies for full price, but it takes planning and forethought to save money and take advantage of deals.
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prime day has come and gone did you take
advantage of the deals did you look for
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ways to boost your preparedness while
saving money at the same time if you did
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awesome if you didn’t let’s talk about
kind of what I saw how I did it
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and what you should be thinking about as
we head closer to the next big deals
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which will be end of summer clearance
Black Friday Cyber Monday just-because-
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we-want-to-give-people-a-percentage-off
day always be looking for deals stay
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tuned we’ll talk about it in a second
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hey everybody i’m casey welcome back to
Cascadia dispatch prepping for non
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peppers today we are gonna talk about
prime day I’m gonna kind of show you my
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prime day haul I never thought I would
do a haul video but I think it might be
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helpful and then we’re just gonna kind
of talk about why it is that I bought
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what I bought on prime day and ways for
you to think about sales and deal events
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that can increase your preparedness save
you money and maybe think a little bit
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outside the box from what you would
normally think about when you’re buying
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preparedness equipment so let’s dive in
shall we
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so before we get started don’t forget to
hit the subscribe button and give us a
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like drop us a comment let us know if
you got some stuff on prime day if you
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normally shop the deals when you’re
looking for preparedness equipment
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because we always want to know those
sorts of things so why was prime day a
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great opportunity if you wanted to
increase your preparedness well most
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people when they think about
preparedness they think kind of survival
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equipment they’re thinking you know gas
masks and bunkers and things like that
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and a lot of what we have tried to
outline in our previous videos is
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preparedness equipment is similar to
camping equipment is similar to everyday
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equipment it’s more how you think about
using the equipment as opposed to what
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the equipment is named and so day is
like prime day Black Friday Cyber Monday
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where companies are putting a variety of
items on sale is a great opportunity for
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you to get things that maybe you use in
your everyday life that you want to
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stock up on something you’ve had an eye
on and it’s going to be on a really
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great sale so it’s an up
to get it at a discount there great
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opportunities for you to do that and
save money you need to know kind of what
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you need and what you want and how you
want to think about it
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but with that forethought going into a
day like prime date or cyber monday or
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Black Friday you have an opportunity to
get great deals for the last couple of
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black Fridays and Cyber Monday s as I
was going through my preparedness
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journey that’s when I got like my really
wonderful backpacks that I love that’s
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where I got the generator that we have
when those items went on big sales that
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was my opportunity to pick up that piece
of equipment there are other times where
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I pick up smaller items and you’ll see
in my kind of haul I can’t believe I’m
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doing a haul video but you’ll see in in
my haul a lot of what I got were kind of
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everyday items some were things that I
had had an eye on but at a retail price
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wasn’t sure that I wanted to get it but
when they went on sale I figured I’d
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test them out I didn’t get anything
major this year on prime day mostly
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because I have kind of done that over
the last couple of years so there isn’t
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a major purchase that I feel like I need
to make right now but for people who are
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just starting out their words great
opportunities to do that so I’m gonna
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use prime Day as my example but this
applies to any sort of a sale this
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applies to the big sales the little
sales clearance sales close outs in this
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season it’s really about understanding
and if you go to our kind of inventory
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assessment which I will link the video
up above where we and I’ll put the link
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in the description if you’d like to get
it where we kind of walk through what
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you’re preparing for and then where you
are from kind of a gear and equipment
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perspective it gives you a matrix of
really kind of where you might want to
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pick up some additional equipment where
you maybe have too much equipment and so
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when you’re going into these sorts of
sale opportunities you can kind of look
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at that list and say oh well maybe I do
need a tent maybe I need some emergency
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food maybe I need a water filter and
then you have the opportunity as you’re
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going through these big sales to say oh
tents aren’t on sale but water filters
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are and let me take advantage of that
and get it right now so
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that’s what I’ve done for the last
couple of years is kind of have my list
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of things that I wanted or felt like we
needed and then as sales have come up
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look to see which of those items were on
a discount that we’re in the budget and
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made sense a great example from prime
day is all of the are a bunch of Coleman
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kind of tents and camping equipment were
like 40% off which if you didn’t have a
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tent or you didn’t have a camping stove
or you didn’t have sleeping pads or
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sleeping bags
that was a great deal they usually do it
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on Black Friday and Cyber Monday so if
you missed out this time stay tuned they
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may do it again for those days as well
but that would be a great opportunity if
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you didn’t already have that stuff to
jump on and and pick that up at a lower
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price so what did I get on prime day
well some of the stuff I got was on sale
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and some of it wasn’t and I’ll go
explain kind of why but one of the
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things I got were wipes I got lots of
likes the baby ganic saw organic
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alcohol-free sanitizing wipes I’ve
mentioned these in a few videos we have
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the little individual pouches that we
keep in emergency kits and the kids
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emergency kits this is kind of a bigger
package where you can kind of pull the
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bigger wipes out these are great they
came in a big box they were on sale we
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use them a lot so it was a great
opportunity to stock up on these because
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we use them for a variety of things
including in case of an emergency on the
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same wipe kind of theme water wipes
these are great they are super duper
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sensitive or they’re great for sensitive
skin one of our children has really
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sensitive skin and so some of the kind
of harsher baby wipes are a little much
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for for him so having something like
this to mostly water so there isn’t a
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great like cleanser in there but it does
a really great job of kind of cleaning
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hands and and wiping up sticky messes
and that sort of stuff so these are
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great we use them a lot again these were
on sale and it was a great opportunity
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to stock up on something that we would
use for an emergency but we also would
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use or reviews for a big emergency but
we also use them for a smaller emergency
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so one of the things that I think was on
a lightning deal and
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some of this when you have something
like a prime date though we’re
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lightening deals there were regular
deals that were discount deals I don’t
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remember exactly which of these were
lightening deals and which of these were
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just kind of discounted coupon these
sort of things but in a situation like
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this and it happens on Black Friday and
Cyber Monday some things are just on
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sale and then some of them are the
special super discounts so keep an eye
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on that you may have something that’s on
a normal sale that then goes on a super
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special discount and you want to take
advantage of that but these are the
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little travel Purell bottles so these
are really small they come with these
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little hooks things that you can kind of
connect loops around so you can loop it
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on a keychain you can loop it on a bag I
don’t know that I’m gonna loop this on
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anything it’s more to kind of put in
emergency bags and cars and things like
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that but this is great we would use it
regularly you know just in our daily
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life we would use it in an emergency I
think you can refill these so having the
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little mini bottles is gonna be helpful
for whether we fill it with Purell or
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whether we refill it with a different
brands but just having the size on a
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discount is a great thing who does not
love sharpies especially in about 3,000
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colors so sharpies are great sharpies
right on everything or most things that
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you would want to write on I’m sure
there’s things they don’t write on but
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most of the things that I think to write
on they would write on they don’t wash
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off so these are great I have boxes of
all black but having the color option
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and that the color pack was actually on
sale the standard black was not on sale
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the colors were on sale so this is
another time where understanding that I
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have a bunch of black ones so I don’t
need more black markers but the fact
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that the colored ones are on sale those
I could use they’re great because a lot
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of times if you’re just writing in black
writing you may want different colors
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you may want to make signals or
notations or organized using different
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colored sharpies so having the different
colors is really great I wouldn’t
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recommend having all of your sharpies be
multicolor I would definitely recommend
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having most of them be black because a
lot of people just like black writing
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having some in multiple colors is a
helpful thing so these were on sale I
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picked those up the evil gets spread out
amongst emergency bags and at home in
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the garage and it’s always great to save
money on
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things like this so the next thing I got
on prime day was kind of my experiment
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this is something I’ve had my eye on for
a little while and paying full price
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didn’t seem like a great idea but I
think it was on a lightning deal and so
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it was worth giving it a shot and what
it is is in case of a car emergency
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instead of having a lighted flare there
are these really cool little LED flare
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discs I have some that are kind of LED
sticks which we’ll go over when we talk
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about vehicle preps and things like that
what I keep in my car I keep in my
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wife’s car so we’ll get there again
subscribe if you’re interested we’ll let
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you know when that video is available
this is kind of a different version
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these are more like hockey pucks but
when you turn them on they light up on
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the top they light up around the sides
they have a little hanger in the back so
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you can actually hang this you could
hang it in a tent you could hang it in a
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car you could hang it from your trunk if
you’re out and about you can you can
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stick these on things I believe on the
back yes if you peel this sticker back
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that’s where the magnet is so you
actually can take this and stick it to
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your car so instead of having to go out
in the middle of the night and drop
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flares out and have them go out this is
going to run on LEDs it’s going to run
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on a really small battery it’s gonna
stick to your car and it’s gonna give
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you a great way of letting people know
that you’re in need of help or your car
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is disabled or whatever without kind of
all of the other mess that would go
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along with flares and that sort of thing
so these are something that I wanted to
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test out again they were on sale so it’s
a great opportunity to do it and these
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LED style flares be it the longer sticks
or these discs is a great thing that
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I’ve started to kind of look at for all
of our cars and and managing that so
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last thing that I got on prime day that
was preparedness related was the
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Maxpedition beefy pouch this is what I
use for the kids emergency kits and I
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decided I was gonna transition my
emergency kit that I kind of keep with
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me or my emergency pouch that I keep in
my laptop bag and transition places so
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this pouch from the EDC
ezc is smaller this seems to organize
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better it seems to hold the equipment
that I want to include in it in it
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better so I really like the idea of
upgrading the reason I got this it was
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not on sale it was not on the lightning
deal but they were running a promotion
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for if you have an Amazon Visa card you
would get extra bonus points for making
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purchases with your Visa card on prime
time so instead of waiting a couple of
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weeks and buying it you know for the
regular price and not getting the bonus
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points I decided to actually get it then
and get the bonus points so sometimes
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with the deal it’s not necessarily the
price there may be other things around
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that deal day that they are offering
that might be a good opportunity for you
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to buy something especially if you were
planning on buying it anyway maybe
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buying it a couple of days earlier or a
week earlier to get some additional
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benefit especially if you’re buying
other things may actually be a good
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option so that’s why I bought this on
prime day again it wasn’t on sale but we
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got bonus points and bonus points or
bonus points so that is gonna wrap up my
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very first haul video did you like the
video do you like haul videos do you
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want to see just more kind of gear that
I have if so or not leave a comment
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below let me know this was kind of a
different thing I’ve seen other channels
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do similar things I’m thought I’d give
it a shot so let me know what you think
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if this is something that would be of
interest going forward if there are
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other types of haul type things you’d
want to see let me know again the
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biggest point of this video was just to
remind you and show you that sometimes
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we think about preparedness equipment or
gear in a very siloed way and if you
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kind of can take a step back and look at
it more broadly there are opportunities
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for you to improve your preparedness and
prove kind of the gear that you have and
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the kind of emergency supplies that you
have for less money by just being aware
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and thinking outside the box of the
stores that you would shop at of the
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time of year that you would shop out for
it and getting it on discounts and deals
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will help you and your family going
forward so that was kind of the point I
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hope that was clear to you and hopeful
again if it was let me know in the
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comments below we’ve gotten some
comments and I respond thanks again
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again subscribe
share with your friends we’d love to
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