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02/24/2019 / By Zoey Sky

How to safely store cash in your home

As a prepper, you need to keep backups for your backup plans, like a food and water cache. The same goes for your emergency funds, which could be crucial when SHTF. (h/t to Ferfal.Blogspot.com) Tips for hiding money before SHTF Keep in mind that you need to take every precaution you can to secure your hard-earned […]

12/19/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Which guns have the highest barter value after SHTF?

Preparing for life in a post-SHTF world involves ensuring that you stock up on crucial supplies such as food, water, and survival gear. But are you prepared to barter for supplies that you may need in a world where money loses its value? (h/t to FerFAL.Blogspot.com.) Different lists of prepping items that you can use […]

04/20/2018 / By Edsel Cook

MUST-HAVE items to use for trade during an economic collapse

When SHTF and the economy comes crashing down, money will become useless while mundane items will transform into invaluable commodities. Preppers should set up a separate stockpile of such goods and reserve it for bartering and trade during post-collapse events, according to an article on The Prepping Guide. If you’re a prepper, you already harbor an excess […]

04/17/2018 / By Jayson Veley

10 Bartering items to have when “S” really hits the fan

Following societal collapse, virtually every aspect of day-to-day life will change in the blink of an eye, from the way in which you get food to the way you stay warm on chilly nights. Another thing that is going to change dramatically is the value of certain objects – what might not be very valuable […]

02/23/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The barter and trade economic system of a SHTF economy; interview of a survivor who made it through

When SHTF, barter will become the primary system of exchange. So, The Prepping Guide interviewed Selco, a Bosnian who survived a blockade of his city, regarding barter and trade during the Balkans War. According to Selco, money and precious metals are useless during SHTF conditions. Items with immediate uses are much better. Cigarettes were the preferred currency […]

02/21/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Staying safe when SHTF: How to defend your Bug Out Location

With all the threats in today’s world, there may come a time when you have to consider your best survival plans. What if you were forced to leave your home behind, do you have a place you can retreat to? Are you prepared to defend yourself and your loved ones against threats of violence, abuse, […]

12/09/2017 / By JD Heyes

Collapsing Venezuela’s chronic shortages have led to creation of “medical flea markets”

Life in Venezuela under the “socialist revolution” of President Nicolas Maduro continues to devolve into a hellish existence, and that is especially true when it comes to basic human needs like nourishment and medical care. To the latter, things are so bad in the South American nation that at any given time, its pharmaceutical association […]

05/13/2017 / By JD Heyes

Barter will become the new economy after the global financial collapse, so make sure you have plenty of these items

Following the global collapse of the world’s financial system, which no one knows when will happen but many believe is inevitable given the massive debt held by the world’s biggest economies, the concept of “money” will change virtually overnight. Like post-World War I Germany, when hyperinflation made the currency – the mark – so devalued […]

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