4 things that will be worth their weight in gold - trade and barter

[DeepseekerADS]

1. Sugar
Everybody loves it. It gives you instant energy. It will be something that goes away fast. It is not simple to make. Get a bunch of small packs for trading purposes. Easy to ration, easy to trade or give as a gift. Everybody will want sugar.

2.Chocolate
Like sugar, almost everyone loves chocolate. It gives you an instant feeling of “ahhh” like a drug. This could be a good moral booster for you and your group. Could also be traded for things that you don't have or used as a gift. Get a pack with lots of small wrapped pieces to make rationing and trading easy.

3.Alcohol
It goes without saying that alcohol will be worth its weight in gold. Best would be to get those small airplane bottles so that you can trade without problem. This could be used to trade for almost anything! If you are a fan of “bugging in”, hunkering down and staying home. Then think about getting a brewing kit.

No it wont save your life, but it sure will make life more liveable. You will always have something to trade!

4. Tobacco
Smoking and Drinking it just goes together. Get some bags of loose tobacco and rolling papers. You can then roll your own cigs and trade them for whatever you need. You can also get tobacco seeds and plant a type of wild tobacco.

 

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[gollum]

1. Gold
2. Gold
3. Gold
4. more Gold

 

[Red James Cash]

5. Ammo

6. Antibiotics,cant get a prescription? Go to your friendly neighborhood petshop and pick up a few bottles of fishmox(a rough form of amoxicillian used for fish skin diseases)

 

[Red James Cash]

Whoops forgot one.

7..Coffee,whats sugar without coffee

 

[Lotus Geologist]

Ammunition and ammunition components. After that, guns.

L.G.

 

[Red James Cash]

Guns,there will be plenty of never fired only dropped once laying around.

 

[golden sluice]

Nice is this for the apocalypse or the zombie apocalypse?
"JUST BECAUSE YOUR PARANOID, DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT AFTER YOU!?!" Famous quote.

 

[golden sluice]

Nice is this for the apocalypse or the zombie apocalypse?
"JUST BECAUSE YOUR PARANOID, DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT AFTER YOU!?!" Famous quote.

 

[Red James Cash]

Nice is this for the apocalypse or the zombie apocalypse?
"JUST BECAUSE YOUR PARANOID, DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT AFTER YOU!

Just because youre not blind doesnt mean you can see...Red James Cash

 

[uglymailman]

8. Pepper. Was worth it's weight (literately) in the time of Marco Polo. Would be again. Guess you could include salt and other spices.

 

[golden sluice]

Prying open my third eye.

 

[Red James Cash]

Yup mailman it was.Roman soldiers use to be paid in salt.Its where the word salary came from.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

1. Sugar
Everybody loves it. It gives you instant energy. It will be something that goes away fast. It is not simple to make. Get a bunch of small packs for trading purposes. Easy to ration, easy to trade or give as a gift. Everybody will want sugar.

2.Chocolate
Like sugar, almost everyone loves chocolate. It gives you an instant feeling of “ahhh” like a drug. This could be a good moral booster for you and your group. Could also be traded for things that you don't have or used as a gift. Get a pack with lots of small wrapped pieces to make rationing and trading easy.

3.Alcohol
It goes without saying that alcohol will be worth its weight in gold. Best would be to get those small airplane bottles so that you can trade without problem. This could be used to trade for almost anything! If you are a fan of “bugging in”, hunkering down and staying home. Then think about getting a brewing kit.

No it wont save your life, but it sure will make life more liveable. You will always have something to trade!

4. Tobacco
Smoking and Drinking it just goes together. Get some bags of loose tobacco and rolling papers. You can then roll your own cigs and trade them for whatever you need. You can also get tobacco seeds and plant a type of wild tobacco.

You left off one.......Toilet paper...






American by birth, Patriot by choice.

I would rather die standing on my two feet defending our Constitution than live a lifetime on my knees......

 

[Red James Cash]

Prying open my third eye.

That still wouldnt help you buddy ...considering.

 

[uglymailman]

Treasurehunter- That's what I keep a big stack of old paperbacks for.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Treasurehunter- That's what I keep a big stack of old paperbacks for.

Didn't have an inside toilet till I was 16, child of very poor folks. Sears catalogs, magazines, you name it!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Guarantee they will be valuable for barter.....






American by birth, Patriot by choice.

I would rather die standing on my two feet defending our Constitution than live a lifetime on my knees......

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Guarantee they will be valuable for barter....

As evidenced in present day Venezuela

 

[releventchair]

In no particular order some other potential hot items. Big city first choice of books to acquire yellow pages for cotton patch work but any better than none. Wad a paper up into a mass and open,repeat till softer if desired.Ladies absorbent pads for barter and a first aid compression bandage.Maybe even some midol/ibuprofen. Viable seeds. Wire snares,fishing line,hooks. Handtools,knives,files,utility saws, hammers and shovels.Bleach,with ability to fragment into ounces even, water filters.
When bartering have a back up set of eyes,or chose you position carefully. You will be gambling all you possess at the time and place your at so chose your items and their amount accordingly. Maybe a risk even beyond so watch your backtrail,an organized pirate group can and if your noted as having goodies likely will raise havoc with the best of plans you have. Recon,distraction, then trap, with you the victim. Scatter caches carefully and keep a low profile.Even a group of trading folks you knew in better times can get wild ideas.People are people.If the life of crime can be a lonely life so can a life of trying to avoid it be.An interdependence in a local group a plus, yet with attendant risks.

 

[Neildo85]

Treasurehunter- That's what I keep a big stack of old paperbacks for.

I'm saving junk mail too!!!