{"id":390318,"date":"2018-12-24T03:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T02:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-to-barter-for-survival\/"},"modified":"2018-12-24T03:29:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T02:29:38","slug":"how-to-barter-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-to-barter-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Barter for Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong>\u00a0This resource has been updated and revised for 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you know how to barter?\u00a0 In preparedness circles, the term barter is used a lot when describing a post SHTF situation when goods and services may no longer be available through normal channels.\u00a0 According to\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>, \u201dbarter is a method of exchange by which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money\u201d.<\/p>\n

A lot of people think of bartering as something to do when they are down an out, perhaps unemployed, or low on cash.\u00a0 But nothing could be further from the truth.\u00a0 Bartering has been around for eons and is simply a smart way to acquire goods and services under the radar screen.<\/p>\n

Today I would like to share some very simple tips for bartering as well as my own suggested list of items and skills that may be useful for barter in a post-collapse economy.<\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0This resource has been updated and revised for 2018. Do you know how to barter?\u00a0 In preparedness circles, the term barter is used a lot when describing a post SHTF situation when goods and services may no longer be available through normal channels.\u00a0 According to\u00a0Wikipedia, \u201dbarter is a method of exchange by which goods […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}