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What item would you horde if the supermarkets were closing?

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    #62
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Item singular?

    As I have everything else I
    think I would buy water purification tablets.

    Or, iphone cable rechargers. They break easily and it will be a long forever with analogue.


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    #63
    46 Long
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long


    An extract from the single best article I've ever read on this topic. Written by a survivor of the '92-'95 Bosnian war.
    If you plan to live by theft – all you need is weapons and ammo. Lots of ammo. If not – more food, hygiene items, batteries, accumulators, little trading items (knives, lighters, flints, soap). Also alcohol of a type that keeps well. The cheapest whiskey is a good trading item.

    Many people died from insufficient hygiene. You’ll need simple items in great amounts. For example, garbage bags. Lots of them. And toilet papers. Non­reusable dishes and cups – you’ll need lots of them. I know that because we didn’t have any at all.

    As for me, a supply of hygiene items is perhaps more important than food. You can shoot a pigeon, you can find a plant to eat. You can’t find or shoot any disinfectant. Disinfectant, detergents, bleach, soap, gloves, masks…

    You should choose the simplest weapons. I carry a Glock .45, I like it, but it’s a rare gun here– so I have two TT pistols too (everyone has them and ammo is common). I don’t like Kalashnikovs, but again, same story – everyone has them, so do I.

    You must own small, unnoticeable items. For example: a generator is good, but 1000 Bic lighters are better. A generator will attract attention if there’s any trouble, but 1000 lighters are compact, cheap, and can always be traded. We usually collected rainwater into 4 large barrels and then boiled it. There was a small river but the water in it became very dirty very fast. It’s also important to have containers for water – barrels and buckets.


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    #64
    Tec Diver
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭Tec Diver


    I would hoard meat, lots of types, and eggs.


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    #65
    DoozerT6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    Short term: the usual I guess, toilet paper, non-perishable food and personal hygiene items. Other essential items like lightbulbs and bin bags, paracetamol, some extra petrol for the car and the like.

    Long term: regretfully I think guns would be necessary in a SHTF, Mad Max scenario, along with plenty of ammo and the knowledge in how to use and maintain them. For self-defence only, I would hate to think I would be an aggressor, no matter how desperate I became. Also, in a genuine life-threatening scenario, would I actually have the ba!!s to shoot another person with the intention to kill? I hope I never have to find out.

    Apart from that, I think literally anything will become an essential commodity if there was some sort of world-wide catastrophe where society collapsed, so anything you could put your hands on could be traded for something else. Food, alcohol, clothing, medicine, weapons, tools, etc.


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