Home brew beer. Bread, made on a not quite finished, wood stove top oven. I like to ferment grains of all sorts:)

I would never trade AMMO, they would likely use it on you & take the rest of your stuff. Salt, Candles, Seeds, Matches & cheap hunting Knives i would trade. I would trade recharge batterys, have afew solar pannels. Offer to charge their batterys for something to trade.

Buck saw blades.16 & 24".

I found the easiest and cheapest way to stock up on chocolate is to buy at the bulk food store.
They have all kinds white, milk , semi sweet whatever, no pretty package but cheap
Then I just vacuum seal at home

Part of my work has me staying in hotels a lot. So I've started bringing home all the small soaps, shampoo and lotion bottles. I have pails of them. This is in addition to our normal stock of hygiene products. So I'm thinking I could use those for barter.

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I barter with my chickens right now , for plumbing work, canning supplies , cider press, seafood, grass fed beef .

Are you willing to sell any of your chickens that can do plumbing work? 😀

Stuff that we use everyday currently, things that we take for granted and will sorely miss when they are gone...these things will be luxuries during hard times. Items I think would be good for barter: Toilet Paper, Fem. Hygiene, Bottled Water, Alcohol, Cigarettes, Coffee Beans, Medications, Personal Hygiene items like deoderants, toothpaste, etc., First aid items, Chocolate or candy, etc.

There are tonnes of items!

I just noticed that this is in the wrong place.
Moving thread to General Discussions area.

Skills! That's a barter-able thing! What use is flour if you don't know how to make the bread? The same can be said for any building/handyman work, gun smithing, animal husbandry services (ie. veterinary knowledge). With our horses, sometimes an experienced horseman/woman can be more help with a foaling mare than vets who often don't make it there in time, or have obligations elsewhere (Racetracks, shows, etc). I'd rather trade a meal or two for help than lose a mare and foal.

I found a neat list of all the skills you could potentially barter with, some of which also produce barter-able items (brewing, carpentry, etc) : http://daily-survival.blogspot.ca/2012/12/100-barter-able-skills-and-services.html

I've read through this thread and everyone has great ideas. Here are my thoughts

- Salt may become a valuable commodity - even in a short amount of time. Detroit and Windsor sits on one of the biggest salt deposits in North America... so you're good...
- Wool blankets of various quality and size would be valued as well. Wool anything!
- Anything involving water, cooking, and fire are great barter goods. Metal is good, stainless is better, cast is best!
- Tobacco has been traded for millennia so I don't see that going out of fashion.
- Alcohol too.
- Shoeshoes...why? Have you ever made a pair?! I haven't and its a complicated item to do well. Quebec, Ontario, the Dakotas, Montana, Michigan, Wyoming all see a good amount of snow, to name a few.
- Ice auger bits pair well with showshoes:)
- Axe and hammer heads (not the shark), welding gear, and really just any tool in general might be handy barter goods.
- Saw blades are thin / light / cheap. Trade them in plenty.
- Sturdy watches. I doubt any cell phone will last near as long as my solid metal pocket watch has.
- Any farming and hunting also makes people more self sufficient. Items concerning this activity should be considered.
- Would I trade ammunition? I wouldn't for obvious reasons.
- Portable solar panels. Expensive today but likely a treasured device in hard times.
- The common lightbulb. Thank you Edison:)
- Alternators. Thank you Tesla:)
- All medical and dental supplies would be highly prized.
- Canned goods are great if you're in abundance. The tools for preserving food would be even better. Ability to can / dehydrate / pickle foods would be sought after should the grocery store run bare.
- Nails and screws. Not typically a reused resource and the shelves will be bare in times of panic. Even drywall will end up disappearing off the building lots.
- Fuel stabilizer
- Sharpening stones
- Fishing nets of all sizes
- I keep a small charcoal filter (furnace filter) in my BOB with a ferro rod. Why you ask? They filter both air and can filter water. Activated Charcoal is also, as we know, a great combustible. One gram has a surface area of about 500 metres square! This item also has medicinal uses.

I'm just about out of ideas at this point but I'm sure there's a huge list one could make. Let me know your thoughts.

M