Not a lot, but It's a start to my stacking journey :)
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Well of course you are correct that the end use of money is to get something else that you actually need for life. Gold/Silver only came into being in order to store value for long periods of time. "food, fuel, livestock animals, etc" all have a relative short shelf life and/or carrying costs (feed for animals, etc) compared to gold/silver. You should take care of your immediate needs for food and shelter first and then lay in enough of stored and barter goods that you can rotate them before they go bad. It's the extra disposable income that goes into PM's. They aren't for bartering, they are to carry wealth from this monetary system into what ever system comes next.
I just have a tough time seeing a scenario where people suddenly see gold and silver as valuable again. Like I say I don't want to be the guy that offers advice as if I have some oracle and know the future but when I really think things through if we had a true and complete collapse of all current systems, silver and gold seem to me to be some of the most worthless things around to have.