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

 

[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.

 

[Britesea]

Books. Both know-how type and entertainment.

 

[Denim Deb]

Don't stock pile glow sticks. If you don't use them w/in a certain amount of time, they no longer work.

 

[Hinotori]

Canned foods, shelf stable packages, dried goods. Whatever you choose, choose something you already eat so you just keep rotating it. Something you really need to remember if you have kids who can go really picky on a new food that doesn't actually taste that good but will keep you alive.

If you home can, meals in a jar are great. Like soups. This is where canned meats are very nice.

We could live off tuna noodles alone for well over a month here just with the pasta and tuna I have stored.

Store water. Everyone should have at least 3 days stored anyway incase of emergency. We usually have a weeks on hand. It's used and renewed every week. We have very high iron in the water and looked at filtering and tried faucet filters. Cheaper for us to just fill up at the water station at the store with filter price and how long they lasted. It's only used for cooking and drinking.

We do own a gravity filter. Rainwater or marsh water can be filtered in a real emergency. The marsh water has been tested and other than normal precautions won't hurt us. Flooding situations is where it would get dicey. If we're flooding, there's been a ton of rain so that would be used. I collect rain for the chickens most of the year anyway. The containers fill fairly quick here.

 

[Marianne]

Interesting thread, we all would make a few changes to suit our own life style.
Personally, I'd chuck:
TP (a few cut up t-shirts make family cloth)
All the paper/disposable items except for first aid stuff
Toothpaste (baking soda goes a long way)
Cigarettes (I finally quit smoking after I thought I was going to die a few years ago)

And I'd add:
Stock up on lentils, rice, TVP and beans (we eat all of those) and skip RTE meals.
Chlorine tablets - we buy them in a 4# jug. You can smack 'em with a hammer for smaller pieces.
Learn how to make an herbal equivalent to some the medicines I take plus pain relievers - mustard plasters, etc. Some medicines just don't have a homemade twin, you know? I currently have 6 months of back up drugs.
This would be the time to get some elderberry planted and try to stay as healthy as possible.
Some bee hives would be good, but it's not going to happen here or where we are eventually moving as that city ordinance doesn't allow beehives, for pete's sake.
Cans of shortening make a decent candle.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but a non electric can opener is needed!!!

 

[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!

 

[wyoDreamer]

x2
The freeze dried stuff that we bought was mostly Mormon store goods. In fact, one of the stores we always went to with a friend because if you were Mormon, you got the discount price. He was, we aren't - he thought it was a dumb rule and always took non-mormon friends with him.

 

[baymule]

My preps are nonexistent. Just kinda forgot about that stuff with homestead life. I do keep some water, oil lamps nd first aid kits

Prepping doesn't mean only for the end of the world. Prepping also covers you if for some reason you can't work, due to lay off, sickness or injury. Your garden and canning is a form of prepping. Laying in extra groceries, consumables, soap, toothpaste, the things that you KNOW you are going to use. if you need one, buy 2-3. Over time you will have stocked in a good supply of the things you use and need.