Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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I have very little income in which to set aside silver, but I do my best to try to buy a silver coin every 3 or 4 months. Not long ago, my husband's boss told everyone he was planning to shut the doors and retire, so my husband recently accepted a new job, in which the 401k option is only available after one year of employment. We were told we had 90 days to figure out what to do with his current 401k, so my husband invested it in precious metals. As a "thank you" we received a 1/4 oz gold coin with King Charles III on it. I have never seen one before. It is about the size of a nickel. Anyway, I am taking advice I have found on this board and trying to diversify my investments (however meager they are) Hopefully this will be enough to weather the pending financial storm???
Well and dandy, except, how would you employ the coins if the grid is down? You do need smaller denominations. We've got some silver rounds, but we also have old money, the sort that was made of silver (e.g. quarters before 1965). Wifey has also collected some barter goods, things that are not perishable but very useful if you weren't prepared, so that we could trade for what we don't have. We got these ideas from reading what survivors of Eastern European besieged cities went through during their wars, where they were unprepared and trapped, and what they most needed, what was killed over. Hint: anti-diarrheals and antibiotics were more important than anyone guessed.
What are the things you stock that aren't perishable but barterable? Besides the antis you mentioned.
I do have a strong supply of anti-diarrheals, antibiotics, various first aid supplies and toiletries stocked, as well as quite a bit of food and ammo, but I am not confident I have enough silver/gold/copper on hand just yet. Still working on it. I'm not sure I know how much to have set aside. Some say a month, some say three months. I am all set as far as food/water, but have not clue if we will be okay monetarily. For now, I will just keep what I can with what we have and leave the rest in God's hands.
That's it. How long? If you figure it out, let me know.
Will do👍