{"id":2346,"date":"2014-12-02T19:08:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T00:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2014-12-02T19:08:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T00:08:21","slug":"101-barter-items-for-when-shtf-survival-life-blog-survival-life-preppers-survival-gear-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2346","title":{"rendered":"101 Barter Items for when SHTF | Survival Life | Blog &#8211; Survival Life | Preppers | Survival Gear | Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/survivallife.com\/2014\/12\/02\/101-barter-items-for-when-shtf\/\">101 Barter Items for when SHTF | Survival Life | Blog &#8211; Survival Life | Preppers | Survival Gear | Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">When SHTF, bartering is one of the most vital 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. It\u2019s important to know the value of everything. Of course there are the obvious items like food, clothing and building materials, but the truth is that there are tons of things that will have surprising bartering value in a SHTF situation. Our friend Gaye Levy compiled a list of 101 inexpensive bartering items.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; color: #777777; font: italic normal normal 14px\/22px Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; margin: 10px;\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">I would be preaching the choir if I told you that it is wise to gather extra supplies that you can use for bartering in a post-collapse world.\u00a0 The issue for many, however, is that their budget allows no room for extras.\u00a0 Finding funds for long term personal preps, let alone daily needs can be an ongoing challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Let\u2019s face it. We all know that the middle class is disappearing.\u00a0 Food and health care costs are up and even those with comfortable nest eggs are finding that their funds are rotting, earning virtually no interest and suffering the ravages of inflation. So what are we to do?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The first rule of thumb is to acquire skills that can be bartered for goods.\u00a0 That is the smart thing to do regardless of your financial situation.\u00a0 Beyond that, there are a number of low cost items that you can accumulate over time, even if you are poor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Backdoor Survival reader Elaine K. sent me her list of \u201cpoor man\u2019s barter items\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It gave me so many ideas that I expanded the list to include even more items.\u00a0 Here it is: 101 low cost items to barter if the stuff hits the fan.<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of\u00a0the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>101 Barter Items for when SHTF | Survival Life | Blog &#8211; Survival Life | Preppers | Survival Gear | Blog. 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