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  Money can quickly lose its value in the event of a catastrophic event. In 1998 in Quebec and Ottawa, an ice storm crippled the power grid in those two provinces, forcing people to learn to live without electricity for ...

In ages past, bartering was not only an acceptable way to conduct business in the community, but the only way to conduct the business necessary to sustain a household. The modern culture shuns bartering for goods or services. Credit is ...

Residents of Greece are so strapped for cash that they have returned to a primitive barter economy. Farmers, workers and even corporations have begun bartering because of a shortage of cash reminiscent of the Great Depression in the United States, ...

Most survivalists and preppers strive to be completely self-sufficient in the event of an emergency situation. However, have you considered including bartering as part of your overall plans, especially in anticipation of a possible unforeseeable and unavoidable event? What if, ...

No matter how much you have simplified your lifestyle, you likely still need to have some money in order to survive in today’s world. Even if you grow most of your own food, make most of your own clothes and ...

When I was young, my grandmother had a copse of raspberry bushes. The fruit would grow so fat that the drupelets would bleed onto our fingers as we picked them. Grandma made lovely jams and syrups with the berries that ...

The power of the almighty dollar may be diminishing and the economy both nationally and internationally teetering, according to some financial experts. While cash may still be king, bartering has emerged as an equally dominant queen. To take full advantage ...

When the time comes that the economy crashes or there is a general breakdown of society, the day-to-day economy will probably revert to one of bartering. This is a common occurrence in war zones, economic collapses, and other desperate times ...

“The end of the world as we know it,” or TEOTWAWKI for short, can take many forms, but there is a good chance that whatever brings it on will be accompanied by monetary problems. Our currency may become devalued or ...

Natural and man-made disasters can strike at any time. A world that seems stable and secure one moment can descend into chaos the next, and Americans who think they are somehow immune to this are living in a fool’s paradise. ...