Bartering

[River Song]

Nice Post LL

even if you have enough and even if you have surplus, you might want to start stocking up as a trading post.
IMHO Forget Gold and Silver -- you can't eat those. As NR says after the SHTF AND after violence then that will be the time.

I had also thought of medical skills. Problem is here in the UK we have such a 'rights' entitlement that people will think that your skills are on the NHS.

My Vet told me that someone had come in to get this dog seen to and then wouldn't pay.

"I'm on benefits", he said.