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Originally Posted by crucifissio
my advice after being in 2 wars:
1) get a water purifier...forget food and shit you will miss drinking water the most
2) buy lots of tobacco...you can barter it for food...it keeps well and you wont get murdered for it but if they know you have food you will...tobacco addicts will sell their soul for a smoke in times of crisis but will not group up and murder you for it...
3) forget gold...nobody will trade food for worthless metal...forget money...it will devalue too fast in times of emergency...
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That's about the most worthwhile post I've seen you make here. Thanks for not riddling it with
like you usually do. :D
But in answer to your comments, they're spot on for the most part except for the part about forgetting about food and gold. I doubt I'd personally go the gold route but there are certain preppers out there who've collected sizeable caches of $50 gold slips, it's like any other prep provision in that it can't hurt to have some on hand and it's light and easy to carry in a pouch.
Food, well, water is vital, yes, but if you only have water on hand and no food you're dead inside of a few weeks if for some reason you can't find any. Telling people to not worry about food when at this time they have the time to put some aside is, well, not good advice.
Tobacco and alcohol, coffee, and even porn materials I imagine would be bartering materials that would hold value in a post societal breakdown situation. Again, no harm at all in someone hording a supply of any of that for an acid-rainy day.
Again, good post.