Non-food doomsday barter items. outside the box ideas. What's yours?

[Kevin Kris]

Hi.
My non food items for bartering;


1. micro sd card loaded with videos
2. hammer and nails
3. battery powered cooling fan
4. pepper spray
5. pens and paper
6. pet food

 

[lonewolf]

none, I have no intention of bartering, self reliance is the name of the game, bartering wont be safe and anyway how do we know their will be enough survivors to barter with and will they have anything left to barter with?

 

[Silent Earth]

Hi.
My non food items for bartering;


1. micro sd card loaded with videos
2. hammer and nails
3. battery powered cooling fan
4. pepper spray
5. pens and paper
6. pet food

Batteries, dry without the acid in them
Lithium batteries
Candles
Coffee
Salt
Air rifle Ammo
Arrows
Disinfectant
Vac Packed Pasta
Tinned veg
Clean filtered water
Paracord
Disposable lighters

Only goods I can transport to a barter meet, I wont barter from my BOL / HOME. I wont trade my fuel or other stuff, not my medical supplies, but the wife is a highly skilled Nurse Practioner so we may barter her skills via a mobile clinic.

 

[Brent S]

Skills are the best thing I’ve seen on the lists above so far. There would be lots of scavenged stuff available for years to trade with. Scavenging would probably become one of the first professions post shtf.

 

[lonewolf]

yeah if they don't get shot doing it!

 

[Silent Earth]

Skills are the best thing I’ve seen on the lists above so far. There would be lots of scavenged stuff available for years to trade with. Scavenging would probably become one of the first professions post shtf.

My missus is fed up with being ambushed when overseas ( usually the US) by overweight type 2 diabetics wanting medical advice for nowt, trouble is after TSHTF Type two diabetics will eith lose wight fast or die which could limit her potential clientel

 

[lonewolf]

its not just diabetics that will die post SHTF, drug addicts, anyone needing lifesaving treatment, heart and lung transplants, people on dialysis, people needing oxygen cylinders to breath. heck even asthmatics when they can not get their inhalers any more.
the population is going to look very different post SHTF and a lot less of them too.

 

[Mountain trapper]

We raise far more beef, chicken, eggs and pork than we can eat ourselves. We're already trading, selling and donating much of it now. I don't see any reason that we won't continue doing so after SHTF. I also have far more ammo than I'll ever need, so that can be another barter item.

 

[lonewolf]

depends on how many people survive? I don't really expect many to survive in an already low population area.

 

[DrHenley]

overweight type 2 diabetics wanting medical advice for nowt,

What is "nowt"? British spelling of "naught"?

 

[Maverick]

I'm not prepping to barter but that doesn't mean we don't have extra, we do.

 

[Silent Earth]

What is "nowt"? British spelling of "naught"?

Yup the northern English version of Naught or Nought or Nothing

 

[user 7704]

I have scotch stored to barter. Don't know if that is food.

Medical supplies
Batteries
Gardening supplies

 

[Proud Prepper]

My main non food barter items would be my knowledge. Perhaps on a USB or micros drive if someone still has a devise that will work to read them. I have dozens of those drives. I hope to have my printer-copier working and I can trade printouts of useful knowledge to barter with.
I'm in an out the way area, we will not have many people just passing through the area.The only people I would most likely barter with would be those nearby that already know of my existence and are also trying to survive.

It's best if I barter and help them survive on there own. Trade them seeds and knowledge to grow food and produce clean water, etc.. they could hopefully trade me manual labor or resources for my knowledge and seeds.

 

[user 7704]

I've always planned on the assumption that there is no electric grid. I am trying to get books and write a journal for y family. I have one on gardening , harvesting and preserving. Hopefully she will pay attention and not dispose of all of my written wisdom before she reads it

 

[Mountain trapper]

depends on how many people survive? I don't really expect many to survive in an already low population area.

I would expect most people that live on farms and ranches in the US to survive pretty well. Most farmers and ranchers are very creative and are used to dealing with hardships already.

 

[user 7704]

Many of today's farmers have no idea how to preserve seeds from heirloom plants. Everyone needs to expect that there will not be stores so they need to be saving all of the precious seeds they can.

For many plants like tomatoes, it's more than just drying seeds. There's fermentation, etc. Except Arctic who can start tomatoes in a dark pig barn without sun or water.

 

[Brent S]

I have scotch stored to barter. Don't know if that is food.

Medical supplies
Batteries
Gardening supplies

Had a friend buy me a double Dewars on the rocks. Close to the nastiest stuff I’ve ever tried....

 

[Brent S]

I have scotch stored to barter. Don't know if that is food.

Medical supplies
Batteries
Gardening supplies

Had a friend buy me a double Dewars on the rocks. Close to the nastiest stuff I’ve ever tried....

 

[user 7704]

Had a friend buy me a double Dewars on the rocks. Close to the nastiest stuff I’ve ever tried....

What I have is a really cheap brand. My brother in laws family owns a liquor ..... Hell, I dont know what to call it, but they have lots of liquor and if they have too much of a certain lot, it finds its way to my husband and I steal some for my preps.

You are correct Scotch was nasty to me too.

 

[DrHenley]

Most Scotch turns me off too, and it's the peat smoke that makes it taste bad to me. Johnny Walker Black tastes like drinking charcoal. Unpeated single malts are a whole 'nuther ball game, and I've liked every one I've tried. The Canadians have an unpeated single malt called Glen Breton Rare. It is not very common in the U.S. however. If you ever get a chance to try some, try it.

 

[Brent S]

Most Scotch turns me off too, and it's the peat smoke that makes it taste bad to me. Johnny Walker Black tastes like drinking charcoal. Unpeated single malts are a whole 'nuther ball game, and I've liked every one I've tried. The Canadians have an unpeated single malt called Glen Breton Rare. It is not very common in the U.S. however. If you ever get a chance to try some, try it.

I’m a light weight now days. One glass of wine and I’m pretty much done for the day. The problem with liquor is it relaxes me even faster! I can sip on a glass of wine for over an hour, but a shot glass is usually downed in a couple minutes. As the old saying goes, liqueur is quicker....

 

[LiveTrap]

Birth control pills and condoms. Peoples needs do not change, and SHTF is a terrible time to be pregnant.
Bicycles. 50cc motor kits for bicycles. They get 125 miles per gallon if you take your time. I own a couple.
Visqueen for collecting rain water. Or, and this may be my favorite if I get stuck in town, WATER. Because I'm the only one in the area that owns a sheet of visqueen.

 

[Silent Earth]

Forgot to mention I have been collecting How To books for years, so I can sell information on making and doing stuff from Been and Bunny Keeping, making black powder, vehicle mtce, honey making, preserving, food gardening, homeopathic medicines, water filtration, candle making, 12 volt systems, domestic DIY etc etc

 

[Silent Earth]

Hate Scottish whiskey, prefer Irish or American, but I do like a new English whiskey recentlt launched.

 

[lonewolf]

we gave up drinking alcohol way back in 2000, I need a clear head to do everything I need to do post SHTF and so will anyone around me, I wont be having any alcoholics around me post collapse.

 

[Brent S]

we gave up drinking alcohol way back in 2000, I need a clear head to do everything I need to do post SHTF and so will anyone around me, I wont be having any alcoholics around me post collapse.

Agreed on the keeping a clear hear post shtf. However, alcohol has a great draw to many people, making it a good barter item.

 

[lonewolf]

wont be bartering, certainly not immediately after SHTF, bartering will only be possible and hopefully safe in the rebuilding phase (which will be a long time into the future)and I doubt i'll be around for that.

 

[GaRp58]

I have been collecting How To books for years, so I can sell information on making and doing stuff from Been and Bunny Keeping, making black powder, vehicle mtce, honey making, preserving, food gardening, homeopathic medicines, water filtration, candle making, 12 volt systems, domestic DIY etc etc

That's where I'm going too, if we are off grid, can't charge the laptops and read all of the e-books I have downloaded, then only paper is real. I have enough for me and the wife, the kids don't prep yet. If I gotta support them, it might get tight after about a 3-4 month period. Been prepping long, but don't have the money for sooo much yet either. Won't be bartering too soon except for knowledge, maybe I could get a few things in payment for a survival class. Need to think about this...GP

 

[Silent Earth]

That's where I'm going too, if we are off grid, can't charge the laptops and read all of the e-books I have downloaded, then only paper is real. I have enough for me and the wife, the kids don't prep yet. If I gotta support them, it might get tight after about a 3-4 month period. Been prepping long, but don't have the money for sooo much yet either. Won't be bartering too soon except for knowledge, maybe I could get a few things in payment for a survival class. Need to think about this...GP

I also like these HOW TO POSTERS, things like how to connect up PV systems, What to put in your BOB etc I think many of them are called Infographics in Americanese. I have aved dozens of them to my files as aide memoirs for future use.