Top Items I Would Never Trade or Barter
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Now this is only personal preference. Please leave a comment below on items you would never trade or barter. Your input might help someone else looking to stock up.
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Living near the ocean for salt harvesting is a plus.
Salt: Properly stored, it simply doesn't go 'bad'... and currently, it's cheap, about a buck a pound. Stock up!
Did you hear John Ross died? Was it you who told me that he was working on a sequel and almost had it finished?
Excellent suggestion. It is surprisingly overlooked for how cheap it is. Especially considering how much people in the Medieval period would pay for it.
Salt was a currency in mideval africa.
Stored improperly salt gets hard. I had a small flood in my basement once and the salt became rock hard and possibly contaminated but it can be used outside for ice surfaces in winter or a deer lick. Put some cherry jello powder and raisins on that salt block and watch the deer go crazy..lol
Instant coffee is freeze dried. Unopened, it will last many years. Tastes rough but gets the job done.
Rip stop is the bomb. Love it!
Except coffee. Absolutely! I would also add to the ammo list my powder, ball & caps.
Tnx for the low key laid back approach. No hyper hyperbolé. Yes pickling salt is a rare item to find around here even in relatively normal times. Allspice is only available here in an expensive store. I heard fuel stabilizers don't work well. I like camo/BDUs because they are comfortable andceasy on the eyes but don't often wear them because a fool once said "Here comes Rambo."😶 I wouldn't trade ammo because you are arming a possible enemy.
Regarding the BDUs, I have my sets still. However, my ability to wear them is limited due to spread. Still good for the family.
I found a great alternative in the form of Wrangler RIGGS Workwear. They're Rip-Stop and come in a variety of pocket configurations. Mine are cargo/carpenter. Don't forget about winter wear as there are fleece-lined pants that are pretty handy.
Fishing tackle, sugar, knives, tools, tire repair kits.
I like catnip tea as a relaxing evening tea... especially if i want to lay on the floor swatting into the air for a bit before bed
Now that's just too funny, 😆!
That made me laugh out loud
@@peayleebaron4147 Glad to hear it. Honestly, it is a relaxing evening tea, lol
When SHTF. Things to keep in mind….
*Never show what you have. Protect the preps.
*Never go alone to a trade
*Food. If you trade food? Trade food for FOOD.
Be the GrayMan. Period.
I would NEVER trade my glass canning jars
Canning equipment and jars
Good info👍🏼
My alcohol stash. Mostly for tinctures and wound care etc but I do have some mini bottles for trade if needed. Years ago someone said if marauders are imminent, always have a half full bottle of dark colored alcohol in a visible spot, spiked with warafin or something, because that's the first thing they'll see...
I'm setting up a trade box as far as salt when I go into a restaurant that have salt packs I take a hand full and empty it into a empty seasoning container just for trade and keep boxes of salt in a secure area
Check on wood gas basically the same as propane or natural gas
I'm stocking up on coffee TO trade because I don't drink it but willing to barter other things I may need. Same with alcohol. Only alcohol I won't trade is vodka because you can use it for other things.
Ethanol free gas with stabil. Keep spair fuel lines for all equipment.
Similar to coffee and spices… CACAO. Chocolate!
What was sent to soldiers during the world wars?
The three C’s: Cigarettes, coffee, and chocolate
(And alcohol of course beloved.)
But chocolate… it has a slight caffeine effect similar to coffee, high fat content makes it calorie dense, and delicious. What sweet can be made in the US maple syrup, honey, and sugar crops… plus fruit… but people will want chocolate once things are stable but before trade is reestablished for more luxury items to make candy and baked goods.
My boots. Alcohol I would trade off all day. I really don't don't drink alcohol much, cause stupid hurts. One thing that I am stocking up on is non electric sewing machines, thread, and certain types of fabric. Check out the Chinese shoe patcher machine. For little more than $100 you can get a portable hand crank sewing machine that can stitch through about anything, including heavy canvas, and leather.
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Thats great, thanks.
Where do we check out the Chinese shoe patcher machine? Do you have a link?
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Sailrite sewing machines sew anything from thin sail material to leather. The last I knew, they were in Indiana. They have a YT channel.
I stocked up on freeze dried Maxwell house.
I use to have a coffee tree in my yard
we dip our horses hooves in used motor oil to keep them from drying and splitting and it kills bacteria at the same time if infection is developing.
You can grow a peppercorn plant as a house plant. I have one and should get more.
Did you buy it as a plant or did you grow it from seed I got some juniper berries they smell like peppercorns I just planted some to see if they would grow
@@thomasjcorson7502 I bought it as a starter but it was delivered in winter and even though it wasn't outside (I picked it up from the post office) it was dead. The company sent me a new one beginning of the month because it's warmer now and its doing fine. So order when your area is warm. Never tried Juniper Berries but I don't use them much.
Juniper berries can be toxic to people who have kidney issues and should not be consumed by small kids or pregnant women. Look into it.
Remember oil filters for your vehicles. I store extra fuel filters. My fuel is clean in storage. The fuel I may trade or buy may not be as good . Happy trails y'all
I was told by several mechanics that if I had to choose, I should always choose to replace the filter and run the same oil, since the filter's job is to remove the impurities so the oil can continue to do its job and lubricate. Not indefinitely, of course, but the filter is more important than changing the oil itself.
You listed all your most valuable barter items. If you feel you cannot barter with any of it, you simply don't have enough. But if you're in a tight spot and need something from someone, I can guarantee you will part with any of that.
ALL of this type void a fantasy.
Any oil products can be made in to gas and diesel Nigeria does it in 50 gallon drums it's just like distilling alcohol just higher temperature and heavy equipment
Never trade ammo...never trade something that can be used against you.
Depends on who it is. A lot of trade would be with people you know.
If you trust them, that ammo would be used to help keep the area safer.
@@ninja5672 nah..if a person i knew had bought a firearm, but wasn't smart enough to have a little ammo stacked away...well they aren't someone I'd want in my MAG.
In SHTF, I wouldn't trust hardly anyone except someone I'd known for years and years and I'd hafta know that person was focused on the same goals as me and prepping same as me.
If they aren't doing the things I'm doing, they can become a liability.
Agree
If only our federal government would listen to this idea. Stop giving away our ammo to be used against us
@@ninja5672 most people that are murdered are murdered by people they know and trust.
Yeah, I dread the day I run out of coffee! Great info. Thanks again!
Weapons and ammo, salt, spices and herbs, coffee, tea, water, medical equipment or supplies, manual tools and hardware, books.
Thanks for the tip about ripstop pants - much appreciated.
We do allow bartering....
Sugar is an excellent preservative for fruits, I wouldn't want to be without it when my fruit trees and shrubs ripen.
Sugar mixed with equal part water will soothe bug bites.
As with it's preservation properties, absorbing water, it can be used to prevent bacterial growth in wounds.
A sugar cube can be stored with cheese, to absorb water, preventing mold growth.
A light dusting of sugar on charcoals put to flame will ignite them like lighter fluid.
Sugar slows the setting of cement and glue.
Sugar is used to make ethanol.
Sugar mixed with baking powder kills insect pests.
Sugar can be used to clean a manual or electric coffee/spice grinder of oil residue buildup.
Sugar cube stored with baked goods will keep them fresh longer by absorbing moisture.
A paste made from sugar, white vinegar, and water will remove stains.
On, and on, and on...
Sugar is invaluable; one of the high-value barter items during wars and other crisis situations.
Flour and sugar
Solar and rechargeables.
You will burn up the bar if
You use motor oil. Not
Dedigned for chain. Saws.
Coffee would be one of the first out my door 😂 time to change our taste buds folks. One day you may not be able to pick and choose all these extras.
Ahhh and please tell me why we aren't targeting the targeters???? The ones that are doing this????
Borax and salt you can dry animal hides for fur
Also borax can be used to clean
Green coffee can last over 10 years if kept dry
Another thing you should never trade if SHTF that is cooking oil, rvegtable oil, it can make lamps floating a wickoiland water,a tbspadds calories tolimited food treats kind problems
Instruments would be a no barter item for me.
Read David the goods book pushing the zone it might surprise you what can be grown in your area with just a few tricks and techniques
Have little bags to trade some of your sugar, coffee, etc. We don't have to give them a whole bag!
So... put little bags on the list! One of those things we take for granted.
Gardening tools! Unless you are able to make them. Don’t barter them! Learn what herbs you can use to make herbal teas.
We treat lumber with a 50/50 mixture of used motor oil and diesel. 👍
Things I would probably never want to barter are cloth diapers, flour sack towels (which can be used for cloth diapers amongst many other things), soap, candles, lamp oil, ghee, alcohol for tinctures and first aid etc. (if I couldn't make any or get it easily) & tools.
You can grow the Barberry bush and make candles from the berries. The berries have a wax substance when boiled. Then learn to make dip candles. It is not hard. They do burn up fast because you need a hardener that will make it last longer but in a shft situation you will not have the hardener.
Women’s sanitary items… next cotton to use for this purpose. We take for granted a lot of products.., and many we can go without or use something else… but us women will always have periods or spotting.
Some good news about this all: Most of these items are things anyone can stock up on and keep for a long, long time with little or no effort. If we are preppers at heart, we should already have large stashes of this stuff. Unfortunately, we can't horde fuel oil. Sigh. But we can learn to live without fuel oil. Air Force used BDUs up until the late 2000s. Now they are called ABU Airmen Battle Uniform.
Hi, growing your own coffee is possible now. Both my sister and I have young coffee plants. Also growing black pepper is possible too. ☺ It's on my prepper list
never barter ammo . what you going to do when someone loads a weapon and turn it on you
Probably 95% of the items you have you never trade. Its its not renewable, or takes a considerable effort to produce, its likely not going to be tradable in a collapse. Its probably more practical to list the items would might consider trading. Water (if your in a area that has access to a lot of clean water), Easy producable foods that aren't easy to store long term (peaches, strawberries, plums - ie exceeding your use or ability to can).
For me I would trade coffee, since I don't drink it. I keep some for guests.
I would considering trading anything that I can salvage from abandon homes (presumable massive dieoff after a collapse). This could be appliances, books & other media, Tools that I don't need, possibly clothes, linen, cookware, etc. As far as motor oil, there might be a lot of it, considering the large number of permanent parked vehicles that probably will never be driven again. These would be full of engine oil. You have to consider that there will be an abundant supplies found in abandon items: Vehicles, homes, buildings, etc.
Here are some things that people never consider stocking up:
#1: Fertilizer & other AG supplies like pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc. Those will be impossible to trade.
#2: Medical supplies: Bandages, cortizone, NSAIDs, Sunscreen, fungal cream, vitamins, bug repellent, medical gloves, finger splints, ankle\wrist braces, etc
#3: soap, shampoo, and household cleaners (laundry, dishes, bathroom)
#4: Shoes & boots (have spares) & materials to repair them like Barge Cement, and spare shoe\boot laces
#5: Matches, and lighters (preferable wood matches & old school lighters that can be refilled with lighter fluid)
#6: Socks & Underwear. At best you get a year (or less) out of a set. Most likely if you working on the homestead socks won't last very long.
#7: Work Gloves & winter gloves. A pocket Hand warmer is also useful if you need to repair stuff during cold winters and you cannot where gloves (ie working on machinary which you need fine finger control)
#8: Hand held two way radios (ie HAM, FMRS, GMRS).
#9: Batteries (every kind - from cordless tools, to batteries for flashlights, clocks, radios, etc)
#10: Tape, Glue, caulking, paint, tarps, trash bags, tire repair kit, jack (bottle, farm jack), ladder(s), hoses, large water containers (ie IBC tote)
#11: Farm consumbles: grease, filters (air\oil\hydraulic), grease Zerks, starter fluid, battery charger, welding gases
ods, carb cleaner, o-ring kit, snap ring kit, cotter pin kit, fly sticky strips
#11: Cutting tools: saw blades, box cutter blades, drills, abrasives (sand paper, grinder disks, grinder cut off blades, grinder wheels)
Sometimes I get overwhelmed looking at lists of things we still need. Although we have started, I don't know for sure you can ever feel "completely ready" but people are capable of so much more when we have nothing!
way back in the boy scouts we used to make sasafrass tea from boiling the roots . it was really good .
Cloth! Peroxide! If toilet paper isn't available I have made potty cloths. Just get an old water bath kettle and boil them with 1-2 tablespoons of peroxide. Hang dry in the sun for additional natural sterilization. A large supply of peroxide is recommended. It has so many uses.
What is the best cloth to use?
? How many people do any bartering.
Remember everyone an expert until they try it.
The newest iteration of the military uniform is called OCPs operational camouflage pattern. But referring to the BDUs, I am hard on clothes but no joke wearing them every other day I had a pair of BDU ripstop pants last me 15 years. I cried when I eventually threw them away LOL
Gas is something I don't hold much hope for. Even with stabilizers, it continues to degrade. "Taryl Fixes All" ran a year long experiment with a variety of fuel stabilizers and the one thing it showed was that gasoline is not a candidate for "reliable" long term storage. The older it gets, the worse it is for the carb/injectors. As an engine fuel, LPG lasts indefinitely. It can work in appropriately equipped vehicles, furnaces, some small engines and (of course) your stove or grill, but on the other hand, it ain't practical for a chainsaw.
I guess it comes down to how long a person believes the SHTF will last. For all of us, I'm hoping it doesn't last so long that we have to worry about gas degrading too far.
They are currently working on this right now we probably won't have fuel for very much longer they will start rationing it.
What would be good to barter with? Tobacco? Coffee? Sugar? Blankets?
Grow Savory to replace the pepper flavor profile. Granted it may not have the bite of black pepper but it works well as a substitute.
Honey
Cooking oil
Salt
Apple cider vinegar
hydrogen peroxide
You forgot the kids, yes, we feel like we could string them up at times.
But then, free labor is hard to find, lol.
I wish we could get a bunch of high elevation coffee seeds that deal with cold and do landrace coffee breeding to get it to grow in the Mid-Atlantic region. We just need thousands of of coffee seeds.
Coffee is dumb. You cant eat it and it has no medicinal value
@@joshlower1 doesn't matter what you think. Trade is about the value someone else puts on an item. So what if you don't use it like it. Seems it would be a even better item for you to stock up on because plenty of others will be willing to trade for it.
Coffee can have medicinal value - my friend had bad asthma as a kid and used to help her breathe. Caffeine can open airways which may be useful…
Coffee contains antioxidants, anti-inflammatory properties, ability to process glucose better, protective effect on liver/enzyme levels, strengthens DNA, a small amount daily is associated with lower heart disease, cancer, and stroke rates.
Caffeine, like cigarettes, can temporarily alleviate stress and help stay focused if needed (must stay on watch all night etc). And since people like to drink it they will pay or barter for it if possible.
@@joshlower1 actually coffee has several medicinal uses. One of which is opening the arteries in the brain. Invaluable for people who suffer headaches and migraines. It also has antioxidants.
You also want to consider trading your ammo may end up being a situation where your shot with your own bullets
I wouldn't trade my water filters
Animal feed, have to be good stewards of our animals must keep them fed, to keep our family fed.
I love this shirt. People always comment on it when i wear it.
I use my used motor oil for my chainsaw. I just put it in the jug after I fill my car back up and save it. It’s still good for a lot of stuff.
Salt is incredibly useful. It can be used with food, to make herbicides, and even explosives and rocket fuel.
cleaning.
Water filters
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We have 5 gal Aribika in nitrogen sealed containers. Trade for ammo. Build a gasifier to run a generator. Old primitive process. Easy. Make our own black.powder and Wobbly pop. Bar oill. All things are made by someone so why not you??
A thought about coffee. Any addiction takes some of your freedom. There are things I like that I would experience a type of withdrawal if I didn't have them, (like RUclips videos), but not having addictions is a plus.
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I have toilet paper to trade. Have small extra packs just for this reason
If your supposition is that “If global trade shuts down, and I can’t get more _______, then I’m not willing to trade _____ it away, then I have news for you.
If global trade shuts down, then you can’t really get anything. And so everything is on the list of things to not trade (because you can’t reliably get more).
Knowing how people hoarded toilet paper during the pandemic, you might not be able to get it later. Buy what you can and hold on to it.
I think paper products will be the first to go. Probably easily replaced?
I only have a couple of thing I will barter. One is powdered milk. Babies need milk and milk for cooking. I am willing to barter some fresh produce out of my garden when I have a lot more than I need from one season to the next. I am also (with limitation) willing to barter my time/labor.
That’s pretty much what I’m willing to barter.
I have Instant Coffee, Instant Tea, Powdered Drink Mixes and Powdered Milk. I will trade Single Serving Coffee, Tea and Drink Mixes. There are plants that can be substituted for Coffee.
I got small bags to divy out these items. They're needy but don't need my whole bag of say, coffee.
Duluth trading has good pants also
One thing about motor oil is that it will always be motor oil .. It loses the additives but is still Oil
Do not use motor oil in your chainsaw as bar oil.. is lacks the adhesive qualities necessary to properly lubricate.. and there are detergents that will damage the pump... He was just saying in the worst case scenario.
"Sell everything and be perfect" sell is just a word for those that don't know we trade and are tradesman not buyers and sellers, trade things we no longer use for stuff we need to use, We are to live free to honor Heavenly Father yah
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I can grow Black Pepper, and Tea here is FL!
Thumbs up!👍👍
Ghee. Never will trade it.
Good thoughts to consider is: what if you loose, runout these various sources what are alternative options? Can you learn to make your own weapons or tools like our ancestors... or Macgiver type skills ? What kinds of other things can be used for fuel? Cooking or engines etc.
Foods naturally high in salts if salt is unavailable that can be grown or wild harvested, etc.
Our ancestors had to sometimes learn theses alternatives. What do we have in our hands, so to speak. Search these possibilities while learning may be easier to access before a crisis arises and experiment. Teach ourselves to do think out of the box scenarios.
One year my husband, son and I were camping by a river. They could catch 52 a day each. As the guys loved fishing, that is what they did. They would not last the 2 weeks in a cooler, so I decided to smoke them. I gathered rocks and mud and stacked them in a teepee shape, used a willow branch through the smoke hole on top to fill the fish. I used a burlap sack for the opening in the front. I found a hickory tree and a wild apple tree and used the dead wood for smoke. The whole campground smelled delicious. The Ranger would stop by ever couple of days and get his stash of smoked fish. Had to think outside the box to preserve them. The guys were having so much fun catching them.
Never water
Last I knew, Air Force called them battle fatigues, but, I'm ancient and they may have changed it.
If you have multiples of hand tools they will be in demand. When I see clearance or food sales on hand tools I pick them up.
What is this useful for?
Used motor oil can be burned for heat with the right kind of heater.
I would NEVER trade my HOT SAUCE!!!!🔥🔥🔥
I’m thinking that if salt is so valuable, then maybe I should put away a ton of it. Way more than I’ll ever need. Then since it is so valuable, I can trade for anything.
Biogas is one option to keep the home fire's burning. GOD BLESS
Yes. Quite a few people with RUclips's on producing biogas/diesel
You can use your old diesel oil for a drop oil heater, I assume that regular car oil could do the same.
Air Force went from BDU to ABU and now they wear the OCP like the army.
cooking oil would be hard for me to trade for. if one is actively milking livestock than butter might be in abundance and tradable. my area is too cold for olive production, we do grow sunflowers but it takes a LOT of seeds to get a bit of oil. there's other options for oil production, lard + tallow but i'd still hold on tight to any cooking oil available.
Oil is just a conduit for heat. You can cook without it if times are hard. Baking and open fire are options.
Make ghee from your butter.
i would never tade my tools.
I would not trade hand tools, Canning and preserving supplies.