>>581309

If you don't smoke I suggest buying cigarettes and extra bullets rather than any meme currency. You can trade cigarettes for a profit every time because you will never use your own supply and will hold onto it much much longer than someone who uses them. Bullets will be the future currency, mostly because they're always useful, same with water and things like chocolate.

I say learn to bake, people are gonna love someone that can turn the shit people leave behind in grocery stores into something pre-world delicious. Maybe I'm just trying to justify my own faggy hobby though.

On a side note, subcompact vs full size? I was thinking of getting a p320 subcompact because you can always carry it as a backup and it doesn't affect load very much while still having a 10+ capacity.

>>616884

Yeah. I heard in a video once that sugars and spice will make a return as one of the big trading industries of the postpoc world. International trade will either be hindered or dead and big profit will come from imported and factory-produced goods that won't be available anymore.

Also, in that same video I had heard 'skills' as an important one. I personally buy hard into this, I know how to suture and I'm getting my pilot's license. As much as I don't like being on federal lists I rely on them being incompetent and not being marked as a risk just because I know how to fly a plane and have some ATF certificates.

>>616899

My grand-dad was a foreman but all he really passed to me was basic construction. I like being a jack though, too many people specialize for the global idea and end up lost when their single skill doesn't have any demand. I'm doing mechanic stuff and branching out in those directions. Wish I knew more about guns and ammo, though my work with explosives is pretty high tier. Home chemistry is severely underappreciated and hard to track down.

>>616899

Ah damn got caught up in myself forgot to even add to the conversation: I think machinery will still be mostly operational, so I think trades like being a mechanic or operating heavy construction equipment might still even be useful if you can find the fuel for it.

>>617842

>My sleeping bag for example would fill half the thing.

Can't you sew clips/make an attachment point on the bottom of the bag? That's usually where people would put their sleeping shit, right where their ass is. Also proof that sewing is an underappreciated skill. Modifying equipment in the field and repairs of all equipment, cloth included, is essential.

Unfortunately I'm a poorfag that buys discount ALICE packs and keeps every laptop bag I come across. Messenger bags feel nice and light compared to daypacks but the lack of space is a huge issue.

>>618072

>Aside from the people who are too poor to actually keep that much food in their home,

Take this from a guy who's lived in poverty, 'healthy is expensive' comes from people who either have no self control or will power to eat something that doesn't taste like candy.

You can buy discount, 40 cent canned food or even get it for FREE from food drive places, and you can eat once a day if you have the grit for it. That means you only need 14 cans, which is 7$. One trip to mcdonalds.

A big ass water container is probably the more expensive thing you'll buy, and of course you'll need a backup propane tank or battery to cook with unless you plan on starting a fire in the house.

Even with that said, tortillas and bread loafs are like 89 cents a pack. Could go down the dry food route.

>>622072

>Not getting a goldwing motorcycle

>not cracking a monster on the open highways weaving through abandoned cars

>not listening to thunderstruck through pirate radio.

It's like you want the revolution to be nothing but ecofriendly hipsters. Bikes, lmao.

>B-but muh fuel

Boomers have managed to stuff 8 car batteries into the engine bay of motorcycles before to make electrically powered bikes.

I have a dream.

>>622074

I'm just meming at you I get it. Bikes are a great way to mechanically enhance your speed with a limited amount of skill, they work better on rough terrain than kickscooters and skateboards, and you can actually put those 200$ gas engines on them if you wanted to conserve personal energy. Just change out the chain to the petal when you're not using it if it gets in the way.

>>624854

>Rice (When I can learn to like the stuff)

Nigga how do you not like rice? Just sea salt and soy sauce it with extra egg and veggies.

Though this is a concern I just thought up: Americans fucking love salt, yet they don't drink water, the overabundance of sugars and salts in our diets is why most of us are unhealthy. I love salty food, especially brine-stored fish and salted meats, but it'll probably cost its weight in water won't it?

>>624890

Food is fucking confusing leaf-bro. I always assumed added iodine and 'enriched wheat flower' was corner-cutting bullshit they use to sell you trash food: Turns out both of these are used to actually add nutrients lost in manufacturing back into the product. You try so hard to avoid additives and then the confusing ass nutrition system throws this curveball. It's ridiculous.