I'll go first.
I save the heads from old garden tools. Gardening with wooden tools is possible but if you have ever tried making and using a wooden shovel then you know it's not easy and they don't last very long. I believe any scenario which disrupts international trade would have tools at a premium. Garden tools with broken handles are often free at garage sales. The handles are not that hard to make and the heads don't take up too much room.

I don't know how unusual this is, but I keep extra pairs of glasses and chapstick, as I am useless without either 🙂 Also, as a vegetarian and someone prone to pernicious anemia, I stockpile extra B12 as well as foods high in that (cooked & dehydrated eggs). Through my volunteering at the animal shelter, I've learned various pet first aid skills, and accumulated various leftover supplies & ointments.

Also, I keep my small electronics (ham Baofeng, solar charger, solar lamp) double-wrapped in a fire safe as some EMP protection. This is more home emergency prep than end-of-the-world prep, but I put down water alarms in certain spots, 1 on each floor, so I will know immediately if there is a flood or sewer backup, or if the neighbor's hot water tank above me has let go.

I don't have great yard for gardening, and this year all my veggie gardening failed (nothing germinated), so I made a point of mapping every food-producing tree & shrub in my area for any future foraging purposes (it helps that some local orgs do most of this for fruit picking volunteering). I also mapped all the local water sources and how fr they are from my house.

Some great tips thanks. I have a garden going right now, damn Im not a gardener. I see gardens flourishing everywhere and mine is pathetic. UUUGG!! Guess I'll have to learn. In the meantime I purchased a survival book, "How to stay alive in the woods" Bradford Angier. And although I have never been a big gun lover, I have acquired my license. Getting over my fear of guns was more than 1/2 the battle. We have begun to scale down getting rid of STUFF that at one time we thought we needed. It's all a process and I too hope we are ready when the time comes.

Here is another one. Old screens (preferably metal) and wire mesh, they are something that most people come across from time to time and they can be rolled or folded to take up very little room. They work very well for dehydrating food.

I have a few small metal racks/shelves from an old stove and old fridge, potential grill or rack to hang things from. I also have a plethora of Vicks inhalers as I suffer from chronic sinusitis.

This is probably more in the hoarding/OCD category but I collect the little shampoos/conditioners and soaps when I stay in hotels. As I'm on the road for 1 week out of every month, that adds up over the year.

Result is that we don't have to buy soap etc if we don't want to.

I toss them into Ziploc baggies as complete packages for future use, bartering, or for donations to the local drop-in center.

I'm guessing that if shtf, people will still want bullets and beans first for barter, but eventually people will realize the importance of "old world" soaps and shampoos as the supply lines break down in a true shtf. If it never happens, I'm no worse off and the drop-in center continues to benefit in the meantime as I only keep so much on hand and rotate stock.

This is probably more in the hoarding/OCD category but I collect the little shampoos/conditioners and soaps when I stay in hotels. As I'm on the road for 1 week out of every month, that adds up over the year.

Result is that we don't have to buy soap etc if we don't want to.

I toss them into Ziploc baggies as complete packages for future use, bartering, or for donations to the local drop-in center.

I'm guessing that if shtf, people will still want bullets and beans first for barter, but eventually people will realize the importance of "old world" soaps and shampoos as the supply lines break down in a true shtf. If it never happens, I'm no worse off and the drop-in center continues to benefit in the meantime as I only keep so much on hand and rotate stock.

So I'm not the only one with that same OCD thing for hotel products??? 😯

There's at least three of us:)

When the wife gets upset at the pile of soap, I usually thin it down by donating to a women's shelter or something. Earns extra brownie points with her for free as well:)

Good Idea!
As I sit in a Holiday Inn for 5 nights once again lol

Don't forget shower caps to keep the shoes clean in the suitcase, or keep your axe head dry.

The free knife sharpeners/nail files. The fine side touches up burrs nicely.

The disposable razors for your next glamping trip/pre-scrub for stitches/looking your best for your BOB:)

The free sewing kits for the BOBs/Hunting trip

I am starting to think my outlook on life is skewed:)

There is one thing I always have stashed in BOB, get home bag, and in my car and its hexamine tablets. I have always been able to get a fire going even if the wood is wet and covered in snow. Collect your wood, light your tablet, place the wood around it, let it dry out the wood and survive the night. It sure is easier then rubbing two sticks together.

Dollar store single use ponchos.

Barring that, garbage bags. (Bivvy sacs, expedient rain gear, etc.)

Lately I've been watching The orginal series Survivors from years ago 1975.

I've noticed them saying a few things that they really need when SHTF and there are no
factories to make more . You only have what you already have unless you can barter.

SOAP SOAP SOAP . This is not an unusual item, however, I've been stocking up in a variety of types of soap.
Laundry in liquid form, Laundry in soap bar style ( sunlight ) , powdered laundry soap,
liquid dish soap, liquid hand soap, liquid 2% Chlorhexidine soap, Poviodine scrub, shampoo,
and now I am stocking up on the old fashioned hand bar soaps . These store very well
and last longer the older they are, they don't freeze or spill either. You can not have too much soap.
I would not be giving it away.

NEEDLES NEEDLES NEEDLES. well they mentioned there are no factories to make more
needles for sewing and repairing clothing. These are needed in a large variety of types and sizes.
Also they needed thimbles. Variety of thread is needed also.

GARDEN TOOLS. I've also been stocking up on garden tools. I even have a push lawn mower .
Also stocking up on empty flower pots in large sizes for growing more food in pots. I have them
stacked up in the garden hut.

ALOE VERA PLANT. I have stocked up from Home Depo on a bunch of aloe vera plants growing
in many of my windows.

EDC-
All ways includes a slingshot... At least in Canada when your not carrying a firearm or weapon everywhere you go, I feel it is a good light weight item I have in my backpack, and a few bearings. This could help with catching small game in a bug out into the bush scenario. Obviously this would not work for the city.

My Bug Out Bag from home has a couple gas masks, and n95 masks for any airborne event.

Quickclot kit in my first aid kit.

Water purification Tablets.

Whistle is a great rescue resource (think Titanic)