An interesting video I recommend watching:
Why recommend? Well, I’m one of the most optimistic survivalists you’ll ever meet….I have a difficult time seeing things come to a point where we’re trading toilet paper and gold coins for antibiotics and motor oil. But…I do store things for my own use (mostly so I don’t have to worry about bartering, actually). Anyway, the items listed in this video are, of course, useful for trade but they are also items you should have on hand for your own use as well. So…thats why I’m recommending this video…watch it and see if theres anything you might have overlooked for your own use.
I can’t imagine there’s anyone who is unfamiliar with this guys library of videos but it’s mostly gun reviews and the occasional piece of gear. The gun reviews are actually pretty good and I find them more valuable than the reviews a lot of other Guntubers have out there.
I haven’t watched that video (haven’t had time for the hour or so I remember it being) so this may or may not be listed.
We’ve been picking up the $1-2 dollar bottles of ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin etc. Cheap enough to stock now but of known value if the wheels totally fall off for a bit..
Plus then we have the smaller size bottles if we find another bag/kit that needs one.
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I forgot why I disliked watching nutnfancy.
Skip the first 20 minutes if you want the list, and set playback speed to 1.25
Right arrow skips forward.
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Blue shop towels
kleenex
antibiotics and OTC meds
cheap whiskey (vodka better, as you can use it to disinfect)
wipes
isopropal alcohol
yikes, just recommended hydrogen peroxide as a wound cleaner
alcohol wipes (towelette size)
lysol/pinesol/bleach
salt
seasonings
batteries
non-electronic entertainment ie books
fasteners – bolts, screws, velcro, duct tape, zip ties, glue
flashlights/candles
knives
toiletries
garbage bags
buckets
shovel/digging stuff
seeds
first aid supplies
skills
One hour.
jeez
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THANK YOU.
Thank you for the list. I don’t have the time to watch.
Yes, thank you very much. This is a prime example of why i rarely do videos- you are at the mercy of the goober’s brain speed. I lasted <2minutes on this moron.
Thank you very much for listening and for the list. It took me three tries to make it through. If this were words on paper, it would fall into the category of TL;DR. Yeah, I’d also forgotten why I unsubscribed from NutnFancy, but this reminded me too. What it took this guy an hour and nine minutes to say could have been said in 20 minutes. A lot of these personalities on AllAboutMeTube prattle on needlessly. They like to hear themselves talk, and think we do too. (And I guess some do, but again, this video reaffirmed my unsubscribing from NutnFancy.)
Sound advice without drama. Drama seems to be in our future on enough fronts already. Thanks CZ for sharing.
Ugh. Does this guy get paid by the minute or what?
Nutnfancy videos really need to come with a TLDW version. It’s not that he has bad info or opinions, it’s just that most people don’t have time to watch 74 minutes of content to derive 6 minutes of valuable information.
It’s all good advice, but I honestly consider bartering to be an inherently dangerous practice. I’d only do it ‘off-site’, and only when things get truly desperate.
And everything we truly “need-need-need” is already stocked deep.
good point. who do you trust? strangers in your AO will be checking everything out to maybe come back later. Case in point: watching American Pickers recently some of the folks report people coming in to ‘have a look around’ and then stuff (high end motorcycle parts) comes up missing from midnight raids.
Optimism is a good thing, as in being able to find what you’re ;looking for to continue with you prepping. It’s also good to be a realist.
History shows the path were are presently on will eventually return us to the levels presently being experienced by Venezuela and other dick-a-torial regimes around the world.
The first 100 day will be very telling so we have very little time to “get it together”. After that I’m expecting things to deteriorate rapidly, all in all, as of right now, it’s total crap shoot.
Read by JK H Kunstler, the series “World Made By Hand”. It’s not out of the realm of possibilities we find ourselves in this position. Consider the unlimited spending spree dickwad and the camel faced ho with the rest of their cronies controlling gummy mint are about to embark upon. It will spread world wide to a certain degree. Course I may be wrong, but I’m giving it 2 years tops…….
BLEACH: DOES NOT store well, long term. Within a year or so, it becomes plain old salt water! If you do sore a large amount of this, DEFINITELY rotate your stock. If you want to use bleach to purify water, use pool shock powder. It comes in buckets or in pouches, and stores indefinitely. The mix ratio is easy to find on line.
SALT: Store both iodized and non-iodized salt; iodized for cooking, and non-iodized for salting meat.
BATTERIES: Keep an eye on these when they’re in storage. I’ve had several flats of batteries start leaking in the package. STAY AWAY from RAY-O-VAC batteries. They’re leak LEADERS!
Pens, pencils, paper.
Reading glasses.
Cheap AM/FM “transistor” radios. These can be had for a buck or two at yard sales. Keep a few of each type of dry cell battery in your vehicle when you go to these sales so that you can test before you buy.
DVD’s and Music CD’s. These may seem useless, but entertainment is a sanity enhancer, and no power pretty much means no internet, so no music downloads or streaming. Power may be down, but many will have the ability to charge CD players or laptops. Again, these can be had at yard sales for about a buck.
I have had Duracell batteries leak well before the end of their listed good till date. These were in my kit of hurricane preparations. But I have to give a thumbs up to them,. When I called them, they just asked for the lot number and sent me coupons for replacement batteries. I was very surprised. Good customer service.
Especially stay away from the Chinese made garbage you find sold as no name stuff. I had those leak within six months.
Just my two cents.
just read that Duracell makes the batteries for Costco’s Kirkland brand
I buy lithium batteries for storage/prepping. They are more expensive, but I’ve never known them to leak, and IIRC they hold a charge in storage much longer as well.
Something make sense to skimp on to save costs. Batteries aren’t one of them.
For critical gear, lithium are a much better choice. They have a longer shelf life and they also have much better cold weather performance than alkalines.
@Tom, good advice. I have been burned with the leaky batteries, I believe CZ mentioned this a few times over the years to change batteries twice a year, for that reason. I was discussing this with my son, active duty SF, who said they have gone to all Lithium batteries on high end items, because ‘they don’t leak’, have not tested that theory, but there it is.
I would just go with Panasonic Eneloop low discharge AAA and AA NiMH batteries. They will hold a charge on a shelf for over 10 years and can be recharged a few thousand times.
Stay far away from Duracells. They have wrecked several flashlights and radios of mine, LONG before their supposed expiration date, including in one case leaking within 3 months of installation. They are Chinese-,made crap and their so-called warranty is worthless.