Prepper Tips For Bartering Post Collapse

by M.D. Creekmore on July 12, 2013 · 11 comments

This is a guest post by William P and entry for our non-fiction writing contest.

Before modern society standardized the monetary system of cash for goods, many cultures around the world heavily practiced the barter system of trade up until the industrial revolution. It was during the mid to late nineteenth century when most families switched from producers to consumers.

For those of you who have never bartered before, its concept is fairly straight forward. The barter system is a direct exchange of goods or services between two people. If you need a gunsmith to repair one of your broken firearms he would require some method of payment. In today’s society this exchange of goods for service would normally take place through a payment of government backed currency. But how would you pay for such a service if there was no government to back such currency in the near future?

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