Can we have a thread about what the hell to do right now?
🗣️ DISCUSSION 💬
First of all, I'm an idiot when it comes to anything financial. I know many of you aren't. What is the safest thing to do with the money (fiat) that we do have right now? Leave it in our local bank? Credit union? Keep it as cash in my sock drawer? Also, the money in my 401k? Switch it over to bonds or something else I don't fully understand? Any thoughts from someone who's been paying better attention to these things than I?
With that in mind I will put up a new gate on my vegetable plot and get a better lock. So far we've had equipment stolen, if things get bad the produce will disappear.
Depending on the size of the lock you need, I recommend either an Abloy 362 or a 342 with the Protec2 core.
Grow some of your food in other parts of the yard so that it appears ornamental. Also, you can sow seeds along ditch banks and other public places. If people know it's food, they can stay away from your food. If they don't know it's food, it's another source of food for you.
A large part of my property is going to be random, not in rows. It will be full of food plants but will appear to be just overgrown. It already appears to be a jungle occasionally, as I don't mow out back as often as I mow the front yard.
My good tools and equipment are in my house. The outbuildings have no locks and are full of mostly junk, at least that how it will appear to most people (random pieces of wood, flower pots, empty buckets, jars full of rusty bolts, etc.). I don't have to buy much for home projects, just go out back and scrounge around a bit.