{"id":15279,"date":"2013-10-10T08:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2013-10-10T08:29:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:29:29","slug":"amazonism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/amazonism\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazonism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, folks. My Amazon linkage has fallen off a cliff this month. Maybe you&#8217;ve all quit buying online because you don&#8217;t want the NSA seeing you buying <i>50 Shades of Gray<\/i>. And I really couldn&#8217;t blame you.<\/p>\n<p>This month I&#8217;ve got a dismal $30 in my Amazon &#8220;bank.&#8221; But NSA or no, I need to make at least $10 a day off those links to keep the puppies in kibble and keep up my best blogitude. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to sales pitch you. This is a two-parter.<\/p>\n<p><b>1. There&#8217;s a bounty on your head<\/b><\/p>\n<p>That is, I get a bounty of $2 any time somebody uses a special link to sign up for a <i>free<\/i> 30-day trial of Amazon Prime. And for this month only, that bounty is tripled. That&#8217;s right: I get $6 if you sign up for a <i>free<\/i> Amazon Prime trial in October.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/primesignup\/ref=as_acph_pr_piv_71_on?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Join Amazon Prime &#8211; Watch Over 40,000 Movies <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you cancel within the 30 days, you pay nothing and I still get six bux. If you continue, it&#8217;s $79 per year, but for that you keep getting what you got during the trial: unlimited free two-day shipping plus those gazillions of streaming movies.<\/p>\n<p>The only catch: You must use the above link. Merely using my generic Amazon link or a product link then signing up for Prime while you&#8217;re there won&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. This is a good time to buy preparedness gear<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fall is always a good time to stock up on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;field-keywords=preparedness%20gear&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;sprefix=preparedness%20gear%2Caps&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;url=search-alias%3Daps\">preparedness gear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be part of humanity&#8217;s genetic memory to lay in supplies for the winter. And just because we no longer (blessedly) endure a subsistence economy that might leave us starving by March doesn&#8217;t mean we don&#8217;t have special autumn needs. In fact, we have some that our Medieval cousins didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, <i>they<\/i> didn&#8217;t need an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0006MQJ02\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0006MQJ02&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\">AAA 65-Piece Winter Severe Weather Travel Kit<\/a>. We might.<\/p>\n<p><i>They<\/i> didn&#8217;t need <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;field-keywords=power%20outage%20lights&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apower%20outage%20lights&#038;sprefix=power%20outage%2Caps%2C440&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;url=search-alias%3Daps\">power-outage lights<\/a> for when their electricity went out. We do.<\/p>\n<p><i>They<\/i> may have had to put up with various &#8220;divine-right&#8221; kings and thuggish overlords. We &#8230; well, we have bigger ones who can bring down the entire world&#8217;s economy and set off the zombie apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>So getcher <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;field-keywords=survival%20supplies&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Asurvival%20supplies&#038;sprefix=survival%20supp%2Caps%2C266&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;url=search-alias%3Daps\">survival supplies<\/a> now &#8212; and do it with any of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon links<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take care of yourself! Keep Ava and Robbie in kibble through the winter &#8212; and keep me blogging!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, folks. My Amazon linkage has fallen off a cliff this month. Maybe you&#8217;ve all quit buying online because you don&#8217;t want the NSA seeing you buying 50 Shades of Gray. And I really couldn&#8217;t blame you. This month I&#8217;ve got a dismal $30 in my Amazon &#8220;bank.&#8221; But NSA or no, I need to make at least $10 a day off those links to keep the puppies in kibble and keep up my best blogitude. So I&#8217;m going to sales pitch you. This is a two-parter. 1. There&#8217;s a bounty on your head That is, I get a bounty&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/amazonism\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazonism<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}