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Gold for large transactions and silver for small transactions. And lead for any that gold or silver won't cover!
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Stomper must be part fish or Fisher men he likes shiny things lolThe reason? It's shiny!
Silver is a better buy for those of us that can't afford to pay almost $2000 a ounce for gold I buy silver because that's what I can afford to buyI think silver is a better deal. It will be much easier to barter with due to it being lower in value.
I would never trade my ammo conversation over .....I can't help but wonder how much something as simple as ammo would be in these barter times? Notice the last panic? How a huge percentage of the shooing public was soon all but out of ammo? If people who shoot regularly were that bad off there had to be a lot of others too. seems like ammo would make a great barter tool for lots of little stuff needed. Not to mention the ability to protect what you have from the grasshoppers who just want to steal what the ant's stored.
Not necessarily you have to buy and save some silver to make silver bullet 's in case the Where Wolf's comeIMHO, spend your money on items you can actually use and/or eat/drink. You will not be able to eat, shoot, or drink precious metals. Personally, if bad happens, I want to be self sufficient for as long as possible. I do not want to have to venture out or make contact with anyone. Barter? With who? People you don't know? People you do know? Things can get ugly even with people you know.
Cash is for the immediate problems, when businesses/people will still be accepting cash and "ugly" hasn't quite caught on. Get in, get out with your items. The first 24 hours you'll probably still be ok (depending on where you are), after that ....... stay home, stay quiet, stay alert.
Anyhow, people can stock up on precious metals. Me? Not so much.
Not necessarily you have to buy and save some silver to make silver bullet 's in case the Where Wolf's come
Those aren't wolf's those are drug addicts and drunk hipsters lol they will die with regular lead ammo HEHEHDon't go to Portland then the damn things are running wild through the streets!! They just look like humans!
I think silver is a better deal. It will be much easier to barter with due to it being lower in value.
I agree I have some silver I didn't go crazy buying lots of it lol little here and there if the S#!+ really gets bad it will be worthless any way cash will be useless from the get go nobody will want CASH if they are not sure about the future especially the cash from the U.S. with all the Socialist talk going on around here LOLSilver is heavy. I have some stored but would be worth less than ammo. Buying reloading gear and trading ammo might be better when everything goes to poop. First aid materials to.
I stock everything from seeds to epipens.
I agree I have some silver I didn't go crazy buying lots of it lol little here and there if the S#!+ really gets bad it will be worthless any way cash will be useless from the get go nobody will want CASH if they are not sure about the future especially the cash from the U.S. with all the Socialist talk going on around here LOL
Those who stored up all that food would feed us to help them protect it all.
Those that store food also store guns and ammo. The three "B"s are Beans, Bullets, and Bandages. On the preparedness forums people tend spend more time on firearms and defense than any other single topic. Not just the guns, but about things like plate, barriers, kill zones, strategies, etc. There are few people who would allow someone they don't fully trust to join them. Be aware that there is is a class of people who are up front that they don't prep because their plan is to rob those who do.
You might want to re-think your plan a bit and make sure you have things to bring to the table like medical, agricultural, construction, etc., skills in addition to protection. They didn't plan of feeding you so you need to be VERY useful and they need to know and TRUST you NOW if you want their cooperation THEN.
You are forgetting the purpose of money. Bartering is great, but what if my trade is worth x, and what you have is worth x*2, how to make up the difference? Or I want what you have, joe blow wants what I have and you want what joe has, money (precious metals) can be the intermediat. That and as a store of value has been the purpose of money for all of human history, and tho many things have served as money throughout the ages, gold and silver have been the most useful for thousands of years.
Sure, those thing you feel you will need will cost you much less now than when things fall apart, but you should have some of the universal "money" also. Remember the US Constitution says only gold and silver are to be money!
Well first you snipped the part where I was talking about the lead up to Y2K. Kind of long past. When that was going on a LOT of the people I saw stocking up owned no guns. I never believed in the tinfoil hat stuff about it in the first place. I did have to laugh at people who were stocking up thinking the sky was falling yet had no plans to protect themselves. I guess they thought 911 would work still?
As I have also mentioned we keep a supply here at all times for the possibility of a good shake. Could disrupt life for a week or two. As long as the house does not fall down we are fine. As for the "real" TEOTWAWKI stuff to me this is still tin foil hat. If that ever happens the best you can hope for is Military running things. Those who prep and "think" they are going to take on the Military are watching too much TV. If even the Government fails then none of us are going to be able to do much. Control will be by warlords. Unless you live on a farm that's self sustaining you're screwed. If you do have such a farm the warlords are soon going to show up to relieve you of it. Many take these fantasies to some laughable extremes.
Anybody who thinks they can take on the military force of the weakest country on earth is delusional. Those folks are either on a reality TV show or at the fringes of a preparedness forum. The goal is to survive long enough for rule of law to resume. The time in between can be very dicey, and that is what most of the people are preparing for. If it's a total collapse then you likely won't make it the first few months anyway.
A self sustaining farm would be very difficult to hold if there was a total collapse. The only thing sustainable is a community big enough to protect itself but small enough to provide for its needs. That's why I'm headed to part rural where people are as self sufficient as is practical.
If you are looking for a place where we can break down look at what is happening in Venezuela and what already happened in Argentina. The same things that led to socioeconomic collapses there are at work right here. Nobody wants it to happen, but it can and will if we don't keep things in check.
Natural disaster will happen. These are speed bumps that are memories in ten or so years. Rule of law is usually only a few days away. I'd still want to be prepared for at least a month for my family.
Yep, places like the socialist paradise there fall into the mess they are now, the former Military takes over. After all they have the real firepower. Everyone else has to try to join the best bunch. NOTHING wrong with prepping for disaster though and foolish to not. Many people who were alive during things like the great LA riots or Katrina still do nothing. I have to guess they either just think it "can't happen here" or they really think the stores will just magically still be open. Will not be pretty if we have a real good shake out here which they keep telling us may well happen.