What's your favourite alternative non-PM, non-cash liquid asset?

We should be leveraging our stacker friendships. It should be enough that we stack metals and barter for what we don't have. Which stackers in Sydney own a:-

petrol station
liquor store
grocery shop
brothel
hardware store
food shop
etc etc etc

These members should make themselves known and should figure in our SHTF scenario.

 

22lr

 

Soap. Cloths washing or just bars. People will want it and it is hard to make by hand
You really should talk to your grandparents about what they missed during WWII

 

Won't suit a lot of people here but firewood and hay are very good alternative assets, very easily converted into cash, don't go out of date and if purchased at the right times of the year, can be very lucrative investments.

At the end of the winter fire season (late spring to early summer) a lot of the firewood suppliers discount their stocks quite a lot because they don't want to hold them over summer and want the cash now. We quite often buy wood in December, cut and delivered at less than half the price you pay in winter. Obviously then you can sell them going into winter for a handy profit if you wish. If you buy well and need cash in a hurry you can always offload it pretty quick - even during summer.

With hay (particularly the small square bales - horsey people love them and will pay good $$ for them) if you buy them during the summer hay season you will pick them up for far less than you do during winter when there is a shortage. For example we bought a large load of round bales during this summer at an average of $58 per bale and we just sold the last lot on Monday at $100 a bale. Admittedly I sold a stack about 3 weeks ago at $80 a bale (which I thought was good at the time ). Always easy to sell and sometimes you pick up a good profit if there is a late season or dry spell (like now in our area). Small squares are the easiest to handle, store and sell but the large rounds and squares can be pretty good too and they don't have to be stored in a shed for weather protection.

malachii

 

Good tip malachii.

Got a nice little fireplace in our house but always found firewood to be ridiculously priced. Anyone got any tips for cheap supply of a good wood stack? Might be worth stocking up.

 

Cut it where?

I thought it was illegal to just go out to the national park or other peoples private property and start cutting trees down.

 

What if you have your own bush block? Or maybe there are clearing regulations that apply? Who would check?

 

Need a permit for state forests (in Victoria), you can collect from the side of the local council controlled roads in our area at certain times of the year, or approach a local land holder. Quite often people ask me to cut up and remove fallen trees. Also if you approach the teams of guys cutting down/removing trees from front yards and streets quite often they will cut the trees into logs for you and leave them there for you to collect at no cost.

malachii

 

Rolex +1

 

Another one is Agarwood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agarwood

 

I'd reckon honey is my favourite liquid asset.

 

Yes please