Trade & Barter

Bartering is one of the most important skills you can have. Chances are that traditional money will be scarce or lose its value altogether, and in order to survive you will have to trade and barter to get what you need. Of course there are the obvious bartering items like food, clothes and building material. But when it comes to survival, it pays to think outside the box

Here are some items that are less obvious, but no less valuable.

Can you think of more inexpensive if not cheap items to accumulate for barter purposes?

1. Candles
2. Garden tools
3. Fly swatters
4. Insect spray
5. Rat & mouse poison

6. Rodent traps
7. Scissors
8. Needles
9. Straight pins
10. Safety pins

11. Buttons
12. Thread
13. Elastic-material
14. Dry beans
15. Rice

16. Noodles
17. Flour
18. Spices such as cinnamon, cloves, all spice, sage, parsley etc.
19. Coffee
20. Cooking Oil

21. Coffee filters
22. Pepper
23. Sugar
24. Salt
25. Hand crank or manual can openers

26. Canned food – any type
27. Wooden, strike anywhere matches
28. Old newspapers
29. Wax for fire-starting
30. Large cotton balls with soaked in petroleum jelly (also for starting fires)

31. Bleach (or freshly made pool shock)32. Baby wipes (Note: these can be used to clean face, hands, armpits, groin in case there is no water. If dried out, pour in a cup of water into a container)
33. Cocoa
34. Baking Soda

35. Spirits: wine, whisky, beer, vodka, brandy
36. Coloring books & crayons
37. Scrap paper
38. Pencils
39. Ballpoint pens
40. Copy paper

41. Lined notebook paper
42. Toothpaste
43. Toothbrushes
44. Dental floss
45. Combs

46. Hairbrushes
47. Disposable razors
48. Nail clippers and files
49. Feminine products
50. Bars of soap

51. Toilet paper
52. Hairpins
53. Batteries
54. Cigarettes
55. Tobacco

56. Cigarette lighters
57. Tobacco seeds
58. Aluminum foil
59. Plastic sheeting
60. Socks – all sizes & colors

61. Shoelaces
62. Reading glasses
63. Garbage bags (can’t have too many)
64. Brooms
65. Dustpans

66. Clothespins
67. Clotheslines
68. Garbage cans
69. Dryer Lint (to use as firestarter)
70. Rope of any type

71. Honey
72. Hard candy
73. Popcorn
74. Kool-aid
75. Ibuprofen, Tylenol, and aspirin

76. Essential oils
77. Cough syrup
78. Eye drops
79. Band-aids
80. Laxatives

81. Lip balm or chapstick
82. Axes
83. Nails, nuts, bolts, & screws
84. Heirloom garden seeds
85. Fresh garden produce and herbs

86. Herb plants
87. Hand garden tools
88. Two-cycle oil
89. Automotive oil and air filters
90. Paperback books

91. Plastic tarps
92. Duct tape
93. Fels naphtha bar soap
94. Washing/laundry soda
95. Borax 96.Oxyclean

97. Homemade laundry detergent
98. Garden compost
99. Garden fertilizer
100. Plastic tubs & containers
101. Petroleum jelly (Vaseline)