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3ACR_Scout
One Year After, the sequel to One Second After, talks about using .22 ammo to trade because of its value for hunting small game, which tends to repopulate faster than larger game like deer.
As for the gold thing . . . it is about securing one's wealth AFTER a collapse.
Gold, silver, jewels, have always had value and used as currency through out human civilization. They won't do you any good if you can't protect them or you starve to death.
Bartering . . .
Most human vices / creature comforts will be in high demand. Cigarettes, booze, ammo, and yes even sex will be in high demand. Firearms will be up there as well. Antibiotics will be worth more than their weight in gold. Same would go for water filtration equipment.
Cheap things you can sock away for a barter economy is bar soap. Lasts forever so long as it doesn't get wet, cheap, highly portable, many uses (cleansing wounds, personal hygiene staving off infections, launder clothing, brushing teeth, etc.). New toothbrushes in their original packaging, again cheap, last forever, highly portable, etc.
Reading Selco's blog about his survival in an urban environment during the Bosnian War he kept things going by learning to refill Bic lighters. He stresses that Bic lighters were HUGE as most people want a simple fast means to create fire. The average person now days has no knowledge much less experience in creating fire. Most folks don't smoke anymore so not many people carry a lighter on their person where at one point almost everyone had a lighter on them. If you go to the tobacco counter in your local Sam's or Costco they sell huge multi packs of Bic lighter for less than $1 a lighter.
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