re: So let's pretend Thunderdome is here and we're now on a barter system.

My medical knowledge and skills.

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Alcohol…lots of people will be depressed and will need to drink their blues away.

Honey and breast milk.

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Spices and seasonings and salt and herbs

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Outside of salt, which is needed for multiple things including food storage, the rest wouldn’t be needed until there was a degree of stability.

Those are luxuries.

Stock up on the cheap whiskey, it'll be like gold.

I think about the old mountain men, hot commodities were sugar and flour.

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Advice from a guy who survived the Yugoslav Wars:

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Money did not worth sh.. we traded things, black market worked, few examples: for 1 corned beef can you could have woman for couple of hours(sounds bad, but it was reality)

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Checks list…
Need more corned beef

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Those are luxuries.

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And there will always be those of means who will want a little luxury. I'd carry a big black iron pot with me, my stash of seasonings and spices and cook tools, and offer my skills in that way. Cleaning, butchery, cooking, serving.

Everyone's gotta eat. Armies run on their stomachs, as some old general said.

I'd barter meals for other things and trade those. Various and sundries if you will. Also, sacks of seeds.

my plan has always been to loot a pharmacy, especially for antibiotics. That shite will be like gold.