Salt is life itself! We season our foods, use it to cure meats, throw it for good luck Salt would be a great barter item too! So bulk up on your salt!
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1000lbs of table salt in 25 lb bags and 500 lbs of rock salt.

People were once paid in salt! The first thing I started stocking was salt. I am still buying it when it is on sale and the damaged boxes. You can always find boxes and bags that moisture has got to and hardened. The grocery wil usually reduce the price. Like dented cans.

At times in history salt was more prized than gold.
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Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take salt for granted, a common, inexpensive substance that seasons food or clears ice from roads, a word used casually in expressions (''salt of the earth,'' take it with a grain of salt'') without appreciating their deeper meaning. However, as Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates in his world- encompassing new book, salt, the only rock we eat, has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Until about 100 years ago, when modern chemistry and geology revealed how prevalent it is, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities, and no wonder, for without it humans and animals could not live. Salt has often been considered so valuable that it served as currency, and it is still exchanged as such in places today. Demand for salt established the earliest trade routes, across unknown oceans and the remotest of deserts: the city of Jericho was founded almost 10,000 years ago as a salt trading center. Because of its worth, salt has provoked and financed some wars, and been a strategic element in others, such as the American Revolution and the Civil War. Salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia and have also inspired revolution (Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India); indeed, salt has been central to the age-old debate about the rights of government to tax and control economies. The story of salt encompasses fields as disparate as engineering, religion, and food, all of which Kurlansky richly explores. Few endeavors have inspired more ingenuity than salt making, from the natural gas furnaces of ancient China to the drilling techniques that led to the age of petroleum, and salt revenues have funded some of the greatest public works in history, including the Erie Canal, and even cities (Syracuse, New York). Salt's ability to preserve and to sustain life has made it a metaphorical symbol in all religions. Just as significantly, salt has shaped the history of foods like cheese, sauerkraut, olives, and more, and Kurlansky, an award-winning food writer, conveys how they have in turn molded civilization and eating habits the world over. Salt is veined with colorful characters, from Li Bing, the Chinese bureaucrat who built the world's first dam in 250 BC, to Pattillo Higgins and Anthony Lucas who, ignoring the advice of geologists, drilled an east Texas salt dome in 1901 and discovered an oil reserve so large it gave birth to the age of petroleum. From the sinking salt towns of Cheshire in England to the celebrated salt mine on Avery Island in Louisiana; from the remotest islands in the Caribbean where roads are made of salt to rural Sichaun province, where the last home-made soya sauce is made, Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.

Semper Veritas

I bought Iodized salt at Sams warehouse yesterday, 25 pound bag for $3.58 to add to my existing stockpiles for trade or if necessary my own use.

wow nice buy ...we went to sams probably about 2 years ago, it wasnt that cheap. GOOD POST

the only way I can buy salt up here is the small can(yea goomerville living again) but I have a full tote of salt and about 6 to 10 2 litre pop bottles full....

Salt is still inexpensive,its abou the only thing up here that has not tripled in price...when I prep I do a rotation of what I buy...first whats on sale then got a few bucks left then I will do salt,maderine oranges and then sugar and so on...

Now sugar there one that going through the roof price wise...

Can salt be used for other purposes? say as an emergency toothpaste or first aid?

When I was a patrolman in Sydney, one of the locations I had to check was the ABC studios, where one night I found half a pallet of bags of Sea Salt out in the open. I asked staff on site if it shouldn't be placed under cover, and was told that it was going to be dumped, and if I wanted some, just help myself. Over the next two nights I managed to clear it all away for them. Wasn't that nice of me? That was some years ago now - before I began prepping in ernest - but despite Chi having given quite a bit away to friends (We don't need all that salt) - I still have about 80 kg of that salt left. (Thought I had only 35, but found that I'd put some in a barrel at the back of the garage in Sydney, and had forgotten about it.) I've since added about another 50 kg of table salt.

Things I've heard salt can be used for Salt can be used:

in a bath for soaking sore muscles

In a bath for a skin infection (not the best but better than nothing)

On stains on cloth

To put out a chimney fire- toss a cupfull of salt on top of the burning wood then close the door and close the dampner. The salt burning should put out the chimney fire

Packed on wounds to prevent infection (causes scarring)

Killing slugs

Mixed with cooking oil/olive oil/ect 50/50 for a skin scrub that will take off skin stains, remove nasty gunk, and remove very dry skin and moisturize at the same time