Prepping Barter Items Supplies Skills Warnings hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska Prepper one of the
consequences of being preppers is we have the prepping supplies we need
and then we may in times of need encounter people who have not prepared and they may ask us for help
we have to decide am i willing to help them am i willing to barter with them
what kind of prepping supplies am i willing to barter for and should i prepare ahead of time for
these kind of emergency barter SHTF situations one of the things that shocked me this week was i was
speaking with one of my friends that i thought i knew very well and i said something about SHTF
and they had no idea what that meant i said i thought everyone knows what sHTF is so it may even
be people that you think you know and that's one of the things that you need to figure out who are
like-minded people and maybe they are like-minded in so many ways but not in ways of preparedness
and i have friends that i've helped out before and then i find out here we are in harder times
and they're not ready they're not doing anything and so you have to figure out who am i willing
to help is there anyone i'm willing to help what kind of items am i willing to provide
it can be quite challenging because when sometimes we think it's just strangers who are going to come
to our house or people that are just barely acquaintances that we really don't care about
but it could turn out to be people that you know so the first thing you want to make sure
that you do is you don't reveal the load of your prepping supply food stockpile you never want to
invite someone into your pantry and say let me see how i can help you out you don't ever want
to let strangers into your home and you never want to reveal even to people that you know very well
how much prepping supplies food you actually have so you have to decide ahead of time
am i willing to barter and what are the things i'm willing to barter for i put
together a few emergency prepping supply items that i thought i would be willing to barter in
times of dire emergencies and i'll explain to you the things that i have and why i have those the
first item is cigarettes i've never smoked in my life but i do know people who do and i know
they go berserk if they can't get a cigarette a few years ago i stopped at a gun shop and there
was a liquor store next door and people were going into the liquor store and they were trying to buy
one cigarette they didn't have enough money to buy a pack but they were desperate to have a cigarette
i just had never thought about how addictive this could be that people would be desperate to even
buy one cigarette so i did put some cigarettes aside cigarettes are an expensive nasty habit but
they're very addicting and i decided it would be worth investing in a few packs because sometimes
people go berserk if they can't have their vices so if i have a few cigarettes to barter SHTF and
no i wouldn't give someone a whole pack and that's when you need to think about it prepare
ahead have it open maybe have one or two in your pocket or put them in a ziploc bag and be willing
to trade barter or even gift them to somebody who's desperate but you never want to let them
know you have more than that in prepping supply stockpile people are also addicted to alcohol
so i have a few small bottles of alcohol and no i wouldn't pull the whole thing out
but i might pull one or two out and say well would you barter for this bottle of vodka or gin at the
beginning of the pandemic they wouldn't even serve it on an airplane and that's i think one of the
reasons that people going berserk on an airplane they are stressed out because of the pandemic
they're stressed out flying in crowds and now you can't have a drink so i can understand why some of
them were very agitated so i have a few bottles of alcohol and it's something i decided i was
willing to have a few on hand that i was willing to barter SHTF to go along with the cigarettes
do you have some lighters and how about some little boxes of matches and they're
not just for going with cigarettes maybe people need to start fires light candles
do all kinds of the things that you would do with lighters and matches so they're a great item
to have for any survival situation and perhaps you have a few extras that you would be willing
to barter with to get things that you would want more than that i've noticed lately that people
practically go crazy if they can't have their bacon they love it so much and it's been in
short supply or increasingly expensive so i went to Dollar Tree and i found a few little bottles of
imitation bacon bits and no they're not really bacon but if you really want that bacon flavor
i'd be willing to barter with this if you ever stay in a hotel they usually have some small
toiletry items these are nice to take when you leave because they're yours to keep if they were
in your room and you can put them in your suitcase if you're going to travel again have toiletries or
you could set toiletries aside because you could barter with these if you needed to
cleanliness is extremely important and if people can get a little bottle of shampoo body wash hand
lotion they might be willing to trade barter you for something that you'd rather have SHTF
think about comfort items such as over-the-counter pain remedies medicines these would be nice to
have on hand you can get the small bottle OTC medicines for around a dollar Dollar Tree they
would be handy to have not only for your first aid kit but in your Bug Out Bag your Get Home
Bag 72 Hour Kit maybe even a few extra bottles OTC medicines for bartering if people don't feel well
or they're suffering from withdrawals from their crazy addictions a little over-the-counter pain
relief might help relieve some of their symptoms in times of emergency or short supply a few
extra over-the-counter medications might just do the trick barter SHTF I've traveled
to Africa many times and one of the supplies that i always bring extra to hand out are toothbrushes
people need to keep their teeth clean did you ever go on vacation forget your toothbrush wouldn't you
have given nearly anything to get one places that I've traveled where they're not readily available
they were very appreciative to get a nice clean new extra toothbrush I'm in the age group where
everybody has their little reader over the counter glasses Dollar Tree sometimes they
call them cheaters you ever been out with your friends and they can't read the menu or they can't
read the hymnal in church and maybe you've lent them your glasses having a few extra sets of
glasses even pick them up at the Dollar Tree could be handy not only for yourself to be able to read
the fine print on medication or directions but then you would also have reading glasses
to barter SHTF with people who maybe don't have theirs and really are in dire needs to get a few
if people are really hungry you could hand them a granola bar you could tear granola bar open
and eat it you can buy boxes of granola bars for a very inexpensive amount of money and anybody could
tear granola bar open and eat it you might want it for yourself but maybe you could have a few
extras that you would be willing to barter SHTF with people who are hungry one trip where i was
in Japan when i would be out walking this one area where i went there was a man who was there begging
every single time i walked by and one day i handed him a granola bar i thought maybe he's hungry and
he looked at it and evidently that wasn't what he wanted but he never came and begged from me
ever again i guess he figured whatever he wanted i wasn't going to give him and i had given him
what i was willing to recently when i was in Walmart I picked up a few cans of soup that were
only 25 cents it seemed like such an unbelievable price then i bought a few even though i wasn't
exactly sure what the flavors were or if my family would like them and no they weren't our favorites
but the price was good so i went back to get some more just because it was a great price
and guess what the 25 cent soups at Walmart are now 1.79 so talk about a dramatic increase yeah
while i can have these in my prepper pantry and my food stockpile i might also be willing to barter
with a few of the soups that i have on hand that aren't my favorite but didn't cost me very much
to have as an extra item as preppers we have lots of beans and rice i wouldn't give away a
whole bucket of beans i wouldn't even give away a jar rice beans but i might give away a ziploc bag
of beans or rice to somebody who really is hungry and really is in need sHTF if they're not willing
to take a bag of beans or a bag of rice i guess they're not really desperate and so i don't need
to barter a trade with them and i don't need to be concerned anymore about their needs over my needs
another thing that i observed when i was in Africa was the children would be carrying their
books back and forth to school and they don't have the luxury of backpacks like our children do and
they would be carrying them in a little piece of plastic wrapped around because it would be raining
and i thought if you could have even a few of the extra shopping bags and some of them are reusable
and they're quite heavy duty that would be a great item to have to barter with people so that
they have a container to carry things around it doesn't need to you don't need to stock up on the
super cheap bags you can use those for your own trash or garbage but if you do have a few of the
extra heavy duty ones save them aside for SHTF barter even if you need to carry things around
so you don't have to try to double and triple bag with the crummy bags maybe this some of
the heavier duty bags would be something you have with your emergency gear if you needed
to grab and go and if someone else is struggling because they don't have a container that could be
something that you could gift to them or think about bartering so these are some of the items
that i have that i would consider bartering SHTF with i would never be willing to exchange
guns ammo knives nothing of a weapon that could be used against me and my family i would never barter
that under any circumstances you also want to be extremely careful in times of dire emergencies
and dangerous situations your safety and that of your family is number one and in very certain
circumstances you wouldn't consider bartering with anyone for anything especially if you
are not desperate so you want to think about that but if you feel like a circumstance might be safe
and you could help someone and even help yourself then bartering SHTF might be something you would
consider so leave a comment below tell us what are your thoughts on bartering SHTF what are some
items that you would consider having to trade with others and some safety tips to help us all
navigate the struggles that we seem to be going through now and looking forward into the future if
we think about the situations we might encounter then we can make plans we can be prepared and
not scared of an uncertain future because we've thought about different scenarios we've planned
out what we could do the whole point of being a prepper is to make each day of our lives be
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