Top Post-Collapse Barter Items And Trade Skills

SHTF Plan ^ | 6-10-2011 | Brandon Smith

[EDINVA]

There was a barter system among professionals in the DC area back in the 80s/90s. For instance, an architect could barter office or home remodeling for a dentist who worked on his family’s teeth. Someone ran the program and figured out relative values. Worked pretty well.

[RegulatorCountry]

With apologies to Shakespeare, “the first thing we do, is chuck all the lawyers down the septic tank.”

[Maine Mariner]

Heck, at age 55+ I would have taken the cans and turned them in.

[RegulatorCountry]

Oops. 22 was intended to be a response to you.

[PeterPrinciple]

Don't forget to file your 1099B (barter) to the government. That law went into effect during our last economic crises.

[Maine Mariner]

I am not surprised. After a few trades I think most people would figure out the value of one good in terms of another, especially since each one would be providing one of the goods and not just currency.

I am sure the barter system in DC was set up to avoid taxes, whether income or sales.

[Cottonbay]

Bttt

[Diana in Wisconsin]

BIG OLD BUMP! :)

[GOPJ]

.did you notice that every nail in it was bent, lol.

I thought they were staples...

[EDINVA]

I am sure it was all about avoiding taxes. Tho I see from another post that it’s now become taxable, maybe why I haven’t heard of it in a long time. Seemed such a good idea!

[greeneyes]

Still common here, Hubby just laid some tile for a load of manure to use on the garden.

[sheana]

There are still barter ‘clubs’. My cousin’s daughter works for a printing company. The owner belongs to a barter club and is always giving her stuff that he traded work for....tickets to Magic Mountain, Seaworld, etc. That is just the stuff he gives her family.

[VirginiaMom]

bookmark

[Cold Heart]

Oil Storage

Non Ethanol gasoline with PRI-G. If you don’t loose the light ends & add some new PRI-G each year, good for a very long time. Claim to bring low grade gas up to specs.

PRI-D for diesel

[Cold Heart]

Sportsmansguide.com

[Vigilanteman]

Years ago I traded eggs to a man who worked at a creamery for surprise flavor ice cream. Every time they changed the flavor on the mixing machines, it was easier to squeeze out a few gallons of the mixed flavor than clean the machinery between flavors.

Some of those mixes were really more tasty than the pure flavors.

[Thunder90]

Any ideas of what to do if we are invaded or occupied after a collapse?

[William Tell]

Maine Mariner said: "... barter was quite common in the midwest in both the 1920’s and 1930’s."

My mother-in-law kept an account journal in 1939 in Colorado. Her husband was away for many months shearing sheep.

She kept house, raising a garden, chickens, and pigs. She took in a boarder, an elderly man, and did laundry for him.

She didn't write extensively about life in general in her journal, but it was interesting to see that the price of a dozen eggs started the year at about 11 cents and increased to 18.

The last entry in the journal was one of celebration. Taking into account all of their income and all of their expenditures, they finished the year $10 ahead of where they started. It took a lot of work.

[William Tell]

Thunder90 said: "Any ideas of what to do if we are invaded or occupied after a collapse?"

Those light-blue helmets would make dandy planters if you shoot several holes in them to permit drainage.

[palmer]

Barter networks that have formed in Argentina love to trade for anything made out of gold or silver, because precious metals are the only tangible form of currency in existence

Mainly because the rest of the world is still building up their supplies. But absent a full breakdown in international trade, the Chinese and Arabs will want real money for their products and there will be middlemen who will buy your PMs to use over there.