There are a lot of articles out there in the preparedness community about bartering. Most of them usually focus on the same handful of “barter items” that you should keep on hand to trade with whenever the (apparently imminent) apocalypse wipes out conventional economics and people are reduced to trading bullets and booze for toilet paper and Twinkies. Today we’re going to look at bartering a little differently. Instead of giving you some arbitrary list of barter items, we’re going to talk about bartering as a skill, different kinds of bartering arrangements and how bringing back a barter-based economy could literally be our salvation out of the biggest economic and social disaster in history….READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE