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WalterBright on Feb 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles

If you want to store up trade goods for the apocalypse, try:

1. liquor 2. cigarettes

Cigs have often been used as a substitute for money when there wasn't money.

jivatmanx on Feb 12, 2013 [–]

Both can still be made fairly easily after the collapse (Well, perhaps not cigarette paper, but tobacco and pipes, anyway)

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