- Messages
- 1,165
- Reactions
- 299
Selco! I've read your stuff from another site. Everybody please welcome and pay attention to Selco. On this topic we can learn a lot from his experience and humility.
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
When it comes I'm ready. My neighbor doesn't believe in preparing, he simply hoards gold. He says when it happens he will come to me with his gold and buy what he needs. When he comes with his gold he will never leave and I'll have his gold.
I plan on bartering my knowledge, wisdom, good looks, and charm......and I will most likely starve to death when the SHTF.
Gold will most likely be to thing that kills the most.The only ones that will be buying gold will be the bad asses,with guards that have better and more guns than you.
They won't be nice people,they won't need to be. They will take the gold they want,unless you are a regular customer.And they will set the price-take it or leave dead.
A brick of gold,after TEOTWAWKI, will make a good door stop.
Oh and from the 3 good ideas thread,someone mentioned tobacco.I think this and alcohol will be better than gold.Along with some ganja
Remember,most of the thieving will be done,at first.by the village idiots. If they suspect gold,they will dream of quick riches before they think of hunger.
Then so will most of the others.
It may be a tie
"books and skills wont get you rich"
Maybe not, but can save your life definitely, books like nursing drug reference, or book about small gardening.
Skills saves lives also, and skills can make you rich, easiest way is to be very skilled in some area and loose your moral, walk over dead bodies, and after everything ends(if) you can be rich, i ve seen that.
About trade, small things, easy to carry, easy to trade, antibiotics, lighters, flints, nylon tarps, aluminum foils, cigarettes,batteries, candles... Easy to carry, easy to hide in you clothes.
Skills also have been traded, from medicine skills to sewing skills, anything useful.
That's why it's absolutely necessary that people don't know about your preps or where they are. As Selco said, when bartering never bring someone to your house or let them know where you live. The way it is, if I die when the SHTF, my PMs may never be found.
No no no,and have a way home that you can disappear as to not be followed.I'd want to do any trading away from my property
I have skills of all sorts, I'm a trained EMT; I can keep you alive for hours, days, weeks, maybe months.
Without meds, once infection sets in, guess what?
Have you ever seen a person with a severe infection, do you know what actually happens to the body if the victim does not die quickly?
Do you think PPL will sell antibiotics for tobacco or cheap booze? Trade for your skill as a carpenter?
I have books as well, do you think PPL will trade life saving drugs for books?
Tobacco, booze, sugar?
Those are luxuries - not life and death needs.
Obviously never smoked or drank muchTobacco, booze, sugar?
Those are luxuries - not life and death needs.
your not always going to have everything you need no matter how hard you prep, so what will you use for trade?
I good barter currency should be small, light weight, have daily comfort or survival value, and be cheep to acquire right now. keep it this way so you can carry a large variety of items when you go out looking to trade.
some things I'm overstocking for trade.
Basic first-aid items: pain killers, cold & allergy meds, antiseptics/antibiotics...
Food items: sugar, chocolate, rice, salt(think meat preservation)
Gear: fishing line, fish hooks and the like, fire stuff(matches/lighters..ect), .22lr ammo
I would recommend saving any gold for the reconstruction phase so you have some wealth when the economy starts to stabilize and there is a reliable currency in the system.