40 Items to stock up on before a SHTF situation

[sumi]

I found this list of must-haves to stock up on BEFORE a SHTF situation, for own use and to use as bartering items. What would you add?

1. Toilet Paper

2. Hand Sanitizer

3. Soap

4. Lighters

5. Duct Tape

6. Glow Sticks

7. Kleenex or some tissues.

8. Vitamins Especially Vitamin C.

9. Aluminum Foil

10. Cigarettes

11. Cheap Wine

12. Bandages

13. Ammunition

14. Condiments

15. Spices

16. Candy

17. Lotion

18. Chap Stick

19. Ziploc Bags

20. OTC Medications

21. Sunscreen

22. Flour

23. Sugar

24. Feminine Products

25. Seeds

26. Matches

27. Pens, Pencils, and Paper

28. Condoms

29. Baking Soda

30. Ponchos

31. Cotton Balls

32. Zip Ties

33. Salt

34. Candles

35. Shoe Strings

36. Activated Charcoal

37. Toothbrushes and Toothpaste

38. Fishing Line

39. Towels

40. Sewing Supplies

 

[NH Homesteader]

Some of these made me chuckle, lol. I guess they're the bartering items (cigarettes and wine mostly).

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hey - wine is ESSENTIAL! However, I would barter the cheap wine, lol. The good stuff I'm stockpiling for ME!!!!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Ammunition. Ok, but you kinda need the firearm to go with it, lol. Bullets don't make as much of an impact if you're throwing 'em!

 

[sumi]

Ammunition. Ok, but you kinda need the firearm to go with it, lol. Bullets don't make as much of an impact if you're throwing 'em!

I think they are assuming you already have a gun or two!

 

[sumi]

Some of these made me chuckle, lol. I guess they're the bartering items (cigarettes and wine mostly).

Some of them made me smile too. I guess they'll be handy bartering items, or essential to some?

 

[baymule]

I already have a lot of these items, but there are quite a few that I don’t use and don’t have. What’s a home without duct tape? LOL

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I think they are assuming you already have a gun or two!

I'm being silly this morning... but it did gimme a quick smile.

 

[sumi]

I'm being silly this morning... but it did gimme a quick smile.

You made me laugh earlier! Great mental vision on the throwing bullets lol

 

[Hope Hughes]

Bullets don't make as much of an impact if you're throwing 'em!

Haha that reminds me of this video my husband showed me. Everytime we shoot our pistols we always think of this and say, " We throw the bullets, not shoot them! " The stupid, but kinda funny things my husband finds on YouTube.