Is your bug-out strategy the best? Do you have the skills, knowledge and gear to get through whatever life hands you—be it hurricanes, blackouts, or civil unrest? Cheaper Than Dirt! challenges you to show us what you got for a chance to win $300 worth of survival supplies.
Cheaper Than Dirt! announces the Battle for the Best Bug-Out Bag September 2014 contest. Starting September 5 and running through September 30, 2014, Cheaper Than Dirt! is accepting entries to its Battle for the Best Bug-Out Bag contest. The grand prizewinner will win up to $300 worth of survival supplies. A second place winner will be awarded a $100 Cheaper Than Dirt! e-gift card and two third prizewinners will win a $50 e-gift card each.
[Entry for The Battle for the Best Bug Out Bag is now over. We will announce the winner on October 17th. Thank you to all of those who entered!] Entering is fun and easy! We want to see what items you feel are essential to survival—whether bugging in or bugging out.
To enter:
- Shop our website for survival supplies and a container or bag to put them in. We know you already have the guns and ammo, so leave those out.
- With a budget of $300 (excluding shipping and taxes) put the items in your cart.
- Take a screen shot of your cart and send it to content@cheaperthandirt.com. Alternatively, email us your list of items including a short description of the item, the URL or the Cheaper Than Dirt! item number at content@cheaperthandirt.com.
- In your message, include your name, a valid working email address, city and state.
It is as simple as that! The grand prizewinner will receive their bag or container and everything they put in it!
Now for the Rules
- Your $300 budget includes the price of your bag or container.
- All of the items you choose must fit in the bag or container of your choice or attach on the outside of it.
- Items must relate to survival or preparedness.
You will be automatically disqualified from winning the Battle for the Best Bug-Out Bag contest if you:
- Include guns or ammo
- Do not include your name, city, and state in your entry form
- Do not have a valid email address
- Your items and bag add up to more than $300
- You shopped anywhere else other than CheaperThanDirt.com or Cheaper Than Dirt!’s catalog
Judging
Our team of experts will judge your entry using the following criteria.
Creativity
Did you think outside the box?
Realistic
Did you pick items that would really aid in a survival situation?
Weight, space, size and number of bag and items in it.
Less is more!
Feel free to include a short description of why you chose the items you did. However, this will not increase or decrease your chances of winning.
We will announce the winner of CheaperThanDirt!’s Battle for the Best Bug Out Bag on October 17, 2014.
Good luck! 
UPDATE Oct 18, 2014
Due to the overwhelming response, we will make our announcement in a new blog post on Monday, October 20. Stay tuned!
UPDATE Oct 20, 2014
CLICK HERE to read the winner announcement.
Any update on the winners?
The winners have been announced.
Fingers crossed for a good birthday in that case!! Looking forward to the results
Ahhhh,now I see it,scroll up just a bit guys,they snuck a notice in here on us,says due to the overwhelming response,they’ll be announcing the winner on Monday the 20th instead of today.
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UPDATE Oct 18, 2014
Due to the overwhelming response, we will make our announcement in a new blog post on Monday, October 20. Stay tuned!
I guess that’s what I get for being sarcastic,LOL.
Doh!
Gonna be a long weekend,cant hardly wait,feel like a kid waiting to open my presents on xmas.
Hehe the second extension, hm?
That’s alright, I’m just really excited to see the results!
New blog post on the 20th, thank you for the update.
Regards,
Derek
Due to the overwhelming response, we will make our announcement in a new blog post on Monday, October 20. Stay tuned!
Anxiously awaiting the results!!!
I dunno,they’ll probably announce the winner via facebook or twitter and nobody here will know who won because the types that would enter a “bug out bag” contest (like me) just so happen to be the same types that would’nt have anything to do with facebook or twitter.
Sigh,irony @ it’s finest.
On the edge of my seat waiting in suspense…
What time will you be announcing the winners today? Will the winners be posted here on this page?
Haha yeah, I’ve been watching it like a hawk and was wondering this as well.
I just spent some time putting together a list for the contest. That was a fun experiment. I ran up against the $300.00 limit and ended up at $299.55.
It was a good exercise in what is actually important and what are luxury items.
Win or lose I am glad I spent some time on this.
I cut and pasted my list into a word doc…
my bob is small it’s only good for 2 days I would really like to have a much larger bag for me and my wife something that we could carry for at least a week and this is the opportunity I have to get one
What if my list is to big to do a screenshot?
Just attached them together via paint, photoshop, etc.
(I used this free tool: http://pixlr.com/editor/ )
Or, send them as list-1, list-2, etc.
Or, put them all in a .Doc via Copy/paste!
Always have one available 24-7 because emergencies never give a warning!!!
Are we allowed to submit more than one?
One entry per person, please.
This contest is awesome! First of all, it’s a wonderful mental exercise. Secondly, who wouldn’t want to win a B.O.B. built out to their own selection? Third, it’s great advertisement/marketing from the CTD team 😉
Submitting my bag now!
~Xan
Great exercise in preparedness, made me aware of some items I did not realize CTD had!
This is a great idea! Is CTD going to make the winning or perhaps the best 3 entrants available as pre-packaged bug out bags? Sure hope so.