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SHTF trade question
I stock instant. Just in case my electric coffee maker stops working. LOL. I DO have a Coleman coffee percolator in the old cowboy style. But I don't presently stock drip coffee. Oh, I also have a French press. Metal screen instead of any filter so lasts longer.
Because flippers gotta flip.
Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, Toilet Paper, Kleenex, and antiperspirant are my non-food items for trade. Especially Toilet Paper since there are no more Sears catalogs and the phone books are mighty thin. Ammo may become a currency alongside of food items. Those hoarding gold will be in for a rude awakening as the things that keep you alive providing sustenance will be more precious.
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i have been picking up cheap bed sheets and cutting up for butt wiping in the future. they can washed and boiled for repeated use. Paper will be hard to come by.
Bought some of these recently. Much cheaper and you can use a food sealer with O2 absorbents for long shelf life. They run pretty decent sales about 2-3 times per year.
http://www.harmonyhousefoods.com/Soup-Chili-Mix-Pantry-Stuffer-12-ct_p_2035.html
http://www.harmonyhousefoods.com/Soup-Chili-Mix-Pantry-Stuffer-12-ct_p_2035.html
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i have been trying to find cheap/clearance tobacco to put away. will fetch good value after shtf
I'm a smoker, so tobacco would be something I'd be interested in. I currently buy tobacco and tubes and roll my own. It cost me about $12 a carton today. I found a factoryl sealed bag of tobacco in a moving box and used it.... after 2 years it was still fresh (not stale). I'm not sure how long it will keep in the factory sealed bags, but I'm sure a smoker would happily trade for tobacco and papers even if it is stale.
I drink a good amount of coffee also, but given a choice between a cig and a pot of coffee in the morning.... i'd take the smoke for sure. I stock up on both, but they wont last forever. It just seems likely that security (gun's and ammo) will hold the highest value followed by food and medical supplies.
Chances are that clean water will be higher on the list in urban areas, but in my area clean water is easily obtained and to difficult (heavy) to transport any significant distance.
I have a good amount of silver, but don't view it as a trade item after shtf. it's a good trade item now though. I've traded items for silver at its current spot price and have seen a nice profit with the rising silver prices. If you are trading silver for an item worth $100 and a few months later silver prices are up you can see a nice profit in the silver and then trade up for another item you normally would not be able to afford(everyone has a cash budget they have to operate in) .... I wish more people were willing to do this as opposed to cash only.
I drink a good amount of coffee also, but given a choice between a cig and a pot of coffee in the morning.... i'd take the smoke for sure. I stock up on both, but they wont last forever. It just seems likely that security (gun's and ammo) will hold the highest value followed by food and medical supplies.
Chances are that clean water will be higher on the list in urban areas, but in my area clean water is easily obtained and to difficult (heavy) to transport any significant distance.
I have a good amount of silver, but don't view it as a trade item after shtf. it's a good trade item now though. I've traded items for silver at its current spot price and have seen a nice profit with the rising silver prices. If you are trading silver for an item worth $100 and a few months later silver prices are up you can see a nice profit in the silver and then trade up for another item you normally would not be able to afford(everyone has a cash budget they have to operate in) .... I wish more people were willing to do this as opposed to cash only.
I have huge problems with gold and silver being used as currency after SHTF. if some sort of calamity were to happen, 15-20% of the population will be dead after the first year. maybe more.
my point is, there are going to be tons of houses, banks, jewelry stores and the like just sitting there.
Whats to stop me, 6 months in, from going into abandoned houses, or an old jelery store, making a mold from bars or coins and melting down the crap I collected and minting new, garbage coins and bars?
gold and silver are going to be easy to get...and very easy to dilute. Gold and silver are going to be cut more than Columbian bam-bam, and that's AFTER the value plummets from inflation when the supply of gold and silver gets flooded everywhere.
the average person isint doesn't know how to tell if its pure, and if its not, how pure it is.
I just don't see it as having a stable value over the long term.
