I came across this list somewhere so I wrote them down, and decided to share them here. Although there are a lot of items here. I personally would never ...ever give up Medician, Ammo, or Weapons to anyone. These items, I could use to save and protect my family. I wouldn't recommend it. Everything else sound like great ideas for a barter system.
Tobacco: If packed in an airtight containers can keep for a very long time.
Canned Meat: Spam, don’t laugh it stays good for a long time and it is great source of protein and fat.
Batteries: Alkaline and Lithium’s batteries will be hard to get items.
Synthetic Oil: Full synthetic oils have long shelf lives and numerous uses.
Antibiotics: Another great barter item worth huge exchange when your sick you’ll "make-a-deal"
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Multi Vitamins: Often overlooked but in a survival situation this will be essential to maintaining good health from poor nutrition.
Seeds: Another great barter item especially if you live in a good growing climate.
Ammo: Shotgun (12 gauge & 20 gauge), 22LR, 9mm, .45 ACP, 5.56mm/.223, .270, .308 (Note: Even if you don’t own a .22, stocking 22LR ammo is a wise choice for barter because it is cheap and a lot of people own .22 Rifles)
Shampoo: A good barter luxury hygiene item that can double as soap.
Disposable Razors: People will like to be clean shaven.
Soap & Laundry Detergent: Good hygiene is important
Allergy medicine: You might not have them but a lot of people do.
Hard alcohol: It will keep for a long time and it also has a medicinal value as well. Wines will also last a long time. Beer, sorry not a good choice.
Aloe Vera: Good medical uses
Animal traps: An easy way to hunt without leaving your house.
Antacids - Heart burn may follow a bad diet
Antibiotics - Good medical uses
Anti-histamines - Good medical uses
Antiseptic - Good medical uses
Apple cider vinegar - Many uses
Aspirin - Good medical uses
Baby formula - Might be worth a lot to the right person
Can openers - Nothing worse than wasting half of the can of food trying to get it open
Candles - Beats sitting in the dark
Canned food - Easy to trade and always in demand
Coffee - Good coffee might be worth a lot to the right person
Cooking oil - Many uses
Fishing gear - Low stress way to gather food
Flashlights - As long as they come with batteries
Flour - Many cooking uses
Sea salt: See The Survival Mom’s article on this, good read.
Tea - Medical uses and worth a lot to tea drinkers
Toilet paper - like gold
Tools - if you have extras and can trade they will be valuable
i keep a 56 pack of bic disposable lighters in a ziploc bag, along with ten (i think, or just about) extra cheap-ish leatherman type tools for barter in my survival pack. idk if you still can but you used to be able to buy cheap "swiss army knifes" at the dollar store, those are possibly good for trade. but leatherman tools are better in my opinion.
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