I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
clean water
We can clean up the entire Capital Wasteland!
I was thinking Fallout 4 when I said it. The cans of pure water.
Aqua-pura for sale!
This really is it. Sure, a high water ratio soup would provide both nourishment and fluids for living, but basic clean water allows for cleaning and the ability to grow food or trade for other stuff.
Plus truly unlimited means you can start your own river to help society recover!
We’re putting Gatorade on the crops and they don’t grow. Ground is broken!
But it’s got what plants crave!
No silly that’s brawndo! Gatorade just isn’t there yet you see.
I would never have imagined I would witness this becoming our reality but it looks more and more like it.
If you are going that route: Rule of 3
3 minutes without oxygen. 3 days without water. 3 weeks without food (I think it is also “3 hours without shelter” but that is a much more environmental factor and feels shoehorned in). And, depending on the apocalypse, clean air can be hard to come by.
I’ve heard it phrased “3 hours without shelter in inclement weather”.
Yeah, obviously need the first that that will kill you. We take breathable air for granted. But if you need an infinite supply of clean air, you are probably dead anyway. An infinite supply of water has many uses beyond drinking and hygine – irrigation, power, and cooling come to mind as very useful post-apocalypse.
Came here to say just that.
I choose an unlimited supply of cell-phone minutes so I can say “told you so” to all the apocalypses deniers.
Water; for living
Evil Genie: “Granted.” It starts to rain. It never stops.
“I’ve seen drier days on Ferenginar. And we have a hundred seventy-eight different words for rain. Right now it’s glebbening out there. And that’s bad.”
- Quark
Like that time it rained for two million years
Ugh i remember
'Twas such a drag, ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ
ammunition could get you anything you could need. drinking water would be a second i guess, but you could with effort gather drinkable water.
ammunition is heavy, but no where near as heavy as water for trading purposes,
Fuel cans probably.
Something like Soylent. You can live off of it for a very, very long time. Enough time to get your garden growing.
Toilet paper. During apocalyptic scenarios, it’s worth is apparently uncountable, so I will be able to trade it and live a life of opulence.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to finally see the first item to disappear in every real apocalypse I’ve been through. Plus it’s man’s greatest invention. Just ahead of the Hubble space telescope.
Got that covered … I’m still going through my excess toilet paper supply I bought during the start of the 2020 pandemic. When people started clearing the shelves of toilet paper, we panicked and bought several whole cases of the stuff. It was completely insane.
I haven’t bought toilet paper in five years.
Just use water.
You expect the guy who bought cases of toilet paper to worry about wasting it?
You where the problem lol
And a bad problem. If you are panic buying anything for the apocalypse, you’re not prepared for the apocalypse. I have a “minimum” amount of TP I’ll let the house get down to before buying more. My partner is a teacher and so during the winter months when we’re both not home we go through it at a glacial pace. We had plenty to last even when we were wfh. Never worried.
I recommend you consider baby wipes and invest in an apocalyptic marketing campaign that praises the variety of usages in face, neck, armpit, crotch and butt wiping.
Goats. Food, friends and defense.
And…
Transportation.
Yes of course, but also…
Recreation.
Heroin. Either build an army of addicts who’re completely loyal to me or I can just off myself depending on how things are going.
Fully-stocked cruise ships.
Gin, I don’t plan on surviving in an apocalypse
You should’ve said pancakes because then username would check out
Gin is correct, because there’s no such thing as too many pancakes.
Bottle caps.
Potable water is good, perhaps wheat berries or ibuprofen would be good too.
As for an unorthodox answer, I’m going to say survival guides. Most people have some idea of how they might survive, but it couldn’t hurt to have a resource to fill any knowledge gaps.
I’m diabetic. I choose insulin.
Army MREs, the modern ones.
Assuming I’m not teleported elsewhere, the place I live has plenty of drinkable fresh water and other supplies, so the only real concern is having consistent high-quality food available, and MREs are engineered to support people in the wild for several months, if not years. In case of a major war breaking out, so it would contain everything I would need to stay alive, or to trade to other people.
Even modern MRE’s only provide stable nutrition for about three weeks— they don’t provide complete nutrition. After that, you need to supplement it with other nutritional sources.
I mean, they are chock full of all sorts of preservatives to extend their shelf life, but they also have things like toilet paper and wipes, spoons and forks, heating pads, and various other things, and they can be eaten cold if there’s some reason not to start a fire.
That being said, you can live a very long life eating only MREs. It’s not like if you only ate them for three weeks you would die. You might have some malnourishment, and you might desperately long for something else, but it wouldn’t be the nutrition issue that would kill you. They are designed to keep people alive in situations where bullets are an occupational hazard.
But if I have an infinite supply of them and they are fresh, then when I encounter people that are starving I can trade it to them for bullets or knives or I can just give them away. Could probably save a lot of lives by being a food producer capable of keeping people alive.
The largest risk I would face would be growing tired of the assortment.
Yeah, not sure what OP’s talking about. Any diet involving a reasonably fresh, large assortment of ingredients will keep you going until you die of old people stuff (maybe early, if it’s really that bad).
If you eat only hardtack or only rice, that’s when deficiencies become a concern. We’re really quite hearty animals.
Hmm, not specifying which one, I see. Granted; it’s always chicken fajita.
