Food, water, safe shelter. If you don't have these, you are screwed in any SHTF situation. A follow-on to that would be hygiene.
I was just reading a fascinating post about just this: https://poal.co/s/QStorm/482304— I know, Q, but the actual post is unrelated to Q; it's from a survivalist forum, with first-hand experience from someone who survived a SHTF scenario on Bosnia in the 90's. He was saying you can shoot your food, but you can't shoot hand-sanitizer. Apparently way-too-many people died from lack of proper hygiene. Something to think about.
Liquor is cheaper by the ounce and is multipurpose. Trash pickup and water are much bigger concerns if you live anywhere near a city.
You need at least 70% alcohol. It’s cheaper just to buy bottles from any store for .99 cents and store that.
Yeah, he recommends hard liquor. Whiskey, vodka, moonshine-type stuff. *edit: digging holes for trash/poop, and water-cleaning pellets/filtration/boiling,etc.
Selco has a few books out about his survival experiences in the Balkan War if you're interested. The one I have is "The Dark Secrets of SHTF Survival" It's pretty good; a lot like the post you linked to, but much more in depth.
Another author who writes and vlogs about his experiences surviving his country's economic collapse is Fernando Aguirre. His book "Surviving The Economic Collapse" chronicles how he weathered the 2001 Argentinian economic crash where his country went from almost first world to third world overnight. He has a YouTube/Rumble/Odysee channel called "The Modern Survivalist" in which he discusses survival and preparedness topics, with author Matt Bracken (Enemies Foreign and Domestic) as a frequent guest & contributor.
All these book titles mentioned are available on Amazon, BTW.
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