10 Great Bartering Items! If you have barter now!

Our forefathers' lives included a significant amount of trading and bartering. Bartering used a variety of goods as money. Human skulls and poison are two of history's more bizarre trading goods; furs, silks, perfumes, spices, and tea were some of the more conventional exchange items. After credit and bank lending declined during the 1930s Great Depression, bartering also occurred. Bartering might resume as a common practice if an economic collapse of that nature occurs again. Here are three items that you would not generally consider as well as ten apparent trade goods.

1. Medical supplies: First aid gear and medical supplies could be vital, especially if care is unavailable or unaffordable.

2. Food: Shelf-stable, ready-to-eat foods would obviously have a lot of value in lean times.

3. Water purification: Tablets, filters, and other disinfection gear could mean the difference between contracting a waterborne illness and staying safe.

4. Ammunition: If things have gotten so bad that you have to barter for goods, you’ll want to be able to defend those goods, too.

5. Batteries: Assorted sizes that could be used in flashlights, radios, and many other devices.

6. Fuel: Gasoline, diesel, propane and other fuels in portable containers will help keep things running.

7. Lighting: Candles, headlamps, and flashlights will be popular items if the power is out, or if electricity becomes too expensive.

8. Hygiene items: Toilet paper, soap, tampons, baby wipes, and other hygiene supplies are always relevant.

9. Alcohol: Alcohol can be drunk, used as a disinfectant, and serve many other roles.

10. How-to books: Books on gardening, foraging, first aid, and security can teach skills to those who didn’t study up before it all hit the fan.

11. Entertainment: Fiction books and other things that can pass the time would be valuable to the easily bored.

12. Caffeine: Energy shots, tea, and coffee would feed the caffeine lovers in the way that cigarettes work for smokers.