Disaster Bartering

[Sylvain]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTpaG4w9_C4&feature=g-high-u

IBE (Fith view )

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Good advice! I do wish he would have mentioned non-gmo heirloom and heritage seed though. They will replenish themselves annually!

 

[Sylvain]

Good advice! I do wish he would have mentioned non-gmo heirloom and heritage seed though. They will replenish themselves annually!

All the seeds used to be "heritage seed" but today with all the GMO crap the industry is producing it's getting harder to find heritage seeds.
This way they make you buy new seeds each year.

 

[irishfan]

Barter items would be a good thing to have but unfortunately I don't think a lot of people in general will have much to barter with. I'm definitely not going to say to not have stuff put back for bartering but I have little faith in others.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Barter items would be a good thing to have but unfortunately I don't think a lot of people in general will have much to barter with. I'm definitely not going to say to not have stuff put back for bartering but I have little faith in others.

There are more reasons to consider than just trading for goods....perhaps a genny goes kapoot and you find someone with the skills or parts you don't have? Suppose you break your leg and need someone to put up wood or labor in the garden? What if someone gets injured or ill and needs meds you didn't put up? Last pair of glasses broke? Barter doesn't necessarily mean setting up a store and is an essential part of surviving in a post TEOTWAWKI society.

 

[irishfan]

There are more reasons to consider than just trading for goods....perhaps a genny goes kapoot and you find someone with the skills or parts you don't have? Suppose you break your leg and need someone to put up wood or labor in the garden? What if someone gets injured or ill and needs meds you didn't put up? Last pair of glasses broke? Barter doesn't necessarily mean setting up a store and is an essential part of surviving in a post TEOTWAWKI society.

I get what you are saying and services would be the main purpose for barter that I can see around here. Obviously glasses and meds would be a major bartering tool if someone really needs them.

 

[NathanJefferson]

TP, best bartering item ever . It keeps for forever(well relatively...) as long as you keep it dry.

 

[TheRude1]

Ive been buying 200ml/half pints of my favorite burbon and drinking it
Clean the bottles and stored, then have a couple of half gals of rotgut and will refill the small ones with it
I will tell them they are refills of cheap stuff but if its bad enough people wont care, as long as they can get a drunk on they will drink it

And unused bottles will make nice little molotov cocktails

 

[ironstarr]

Cats , I have hundreds of cats . Best barter item ever.. Who will turn down a cute kitty in a disaster? No one.. Besides a friendly companion, excellent entree as well

 

[BigMatt]

I like ammo. .22 will be a good currency and people are not very likely to come after you with it. Heck, you can even wrap it up so it is hard to get out of the package very quickly.

 

[chrisjross85]

I believe seeds are where it is for many reasons there are so many seeds you can germinate and eat right away so in the case that the disaster last longer than you thought than you have a source of food by placing them in a damp paper towel. Otherwise you can help by growing crops and bartering either the crops or seeds. I my self have buckets of seeds and use them every year in my garden and restock what I use. I can see and understand the liquor because there are a lot of motors that can run on anything 100 proof or better and well yea the world as we know it is coming to a end lets get drunk. Ammo on the other hand last thing I'm giving away, if you have enough to barter with then they will know theirs more where that came from. Food for thought

 

[Justin Case]

I believe seeds are where it is for many reasons there are so many seeds you can germinate and eat right away so in the case that the disaster last longer than you thought than you have a source of food by placing them in a damp paper towel. Otherwise you can help by growing crops and bartering either the crops or seeds. I my self have buckets of seeds and use them every year in my garden and restock what I use. I can see and understand the liquor because there are a lot of motors that can run on anything 100 proof or better and well yea the world as we know it is coming to a end lets get drunk. Ammo on the other hand last thing I'm giving away, if you have enough to barter with then they will know theirs more where that came from. Food for thought

Very good point.

 

[tooleman]

Everyone has listed good points, however I feel like there is one item that has been left out. That item is black pepper,this is a food staple time that is in everything that people consume. The most important thing about black pepper it is not even grown in this part of the world. Further more it is a item that everyone can afford to buy and have stock piles of. Just remember when buying any spices in bulk whole is king.

 

[HavokCycle]

skills. tobacco and coffee are luxury items. sure, yeager might get rich off his stores of tobacco, but skills will last a lot longer than things you horde. learn a trade. know things. know how to build shelters, work metal, wood, first aid, etc. there's going to be a lot of useless people in the coming future, the man that knows things will rule them.

 

[PaulF]

skills. tobacco and coffee are luxury items. sure, yeager might get rich off his stores of tobacco, but skills will last a lot longer than things you horde. learn a trade. know things. know how to build shelters, work metal, wood, first aid, etc. there's going to be a lot of useless people in the coming future, the man that knows things will rule them.

THIS!

Mechanical, electrical, medical, agricultural skills, the more advanced the better. I, personally, believe that a person's ability to be useful will be his greatest asset when things go tribal.

-Paul

 

[tooleman]

Other items that I think could prove to be useful;
Barber skills
Tanning hides
Spinning wool/cotton into yarn

Just to name a few

 

[Justin Case]

A quote I remember from a survivor of Bosnia is that "the guy who knew how to make shoes never went hungry".

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Everyone has listed good points, however I feel like there is one item that has been left out. That item is black pepper,this is a food staple time that is in everything that people consume. The most important thing about black pepper it is not even grown in this part of the world. Further more it is a item that everyone can afford to buy and have stock piles of. Just remember when buying any spices in bulk whole is king.

LOL, funny you mentioned this. I keep a pretty large stash of spices and was just going through and inventorying them this afternoon.

 

[Bunnykid68]

I have a few boxes of these

 

[HavokCycle]

is that salt? i'd also like to throw in salt. a lot of meat can be preserved in a little amount of salt.