Okay... let me guess...
Is TP...
Tobacco Products ?
:thinking:
hmmm... that's a good one too but I was thinking of toilet paper
Liquor and cigarettes/cigars would make good barter items! I know I'll need a stiff drink when the soup hits the fan. :scared2:
Marsha
I'll need both kinds of TP
So in all seriousness, I've got blessed candles, keep grapes, &c usual stuff, but I've kept my dad's meds (VA sends them automatically, which I'd tried to stop when Daddy went into a nursing home last year, but 'they don't have that form'). So I'm getting oxycontins, gabapentins, tons of insulin and supplies (we're not diabetic), inhalers, various heart pills in varying strengths, percocets, &c pain and heart meds. Valiums and LOTS of stool softeners, tamsulosin (for controlling urine in men, I think), and stuff I couldn't guess what it's for. For some reason, the VA sent "emergency" morphine sulfates, little white powdery pills, too, after they heard of Daddy's stroke earlier this year (I guess they still get hospital notifications and make changes accordingly?). —Yes, our govt IS that stupid; I'd guess thousands worth of meds per month. I was afraid it would come back on me, but they wanted me to file a form they didn't have to "prove" he was in a nursing home; one helpful lady said they'd stop sending them when he passed away.
(Yes I confessed it. I give the out-of-date morphines to the police, but that's it.)
So I have a spare bedroom for his stuff; I'm hoping those will make good bartering or life-saving items (which I'll
not share with Doctors Without Borders). BOXES of this stuff now. I also try to keep a stock of 9mm hollow-points; several sidearms, some shotguns [for the men] and two rifles, and my own little SMG. I know how to make things, too (but not hollow-points; I'm not a machine). Muzzle-loaders and a bow, too. Maybe my H can pick up hunting.
And batteries; but we can't keep much gasoline — I keep 25 gallons plus the cars filled. (It's useful for power outages, too). Generator.
Food's a problem, though; I don't have much except canned foods. So I took a hint from the OT and have extra rooms for my priest so he can keep consecrating. We hope to have this attitude: