11 Things to “Panic Buy” Before They Disappear - Ask a Prepper

There’s a difference between panic buying and smart buying. Panic buying is what happens in the first 48 hours of a crisis – empty shelves, fistfights over toilet paper, people loading carts with things they’ll never use.
Smart buying is what you do right now, before the news cycle triggers the herd. The items on this list aren’t random. They’re things that have historically vanished from store shelves fast, that are difficult or impossible to substitute once they’re gone, and that have real, practical value whether you’re riding out a short disruption or something that lasts months.
If even a few of these are missing from your stockpile, that’s worth fixing today.
11. Potassium Iodide
Potassium iodide is something you on’t think as being important for survival, until a nuclear strike or an EMP. At that point, it’s already too late.
KI tablets sell out within hours of any radiological scare. It’s actually what happened in 2011, after the Fukushima disaster, when pharmacies across …