Preppers - supplying Humungus since 1981

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JustinR
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A book I read about the collapse in Argentina several years ago stated that "we buy gold" shops sprung up on every street corner. The most common currency was a gold chain link bracelet, where a link or two could be sold to one of these street buyers for enough devalued currency to buy groceries.

But generally, I agree that precious metals are worthless in an emergency or survival situation. I would much rather have invested in items for self sufficiency, foodstuffs, or things I can't make myself instead of coins or bars in a safe.
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As currency, gold's value depends just as much as paper money on whether someone can use it to buy things later.

If the US dollar collapses, as I understand it, we take the rest of the world down with us, or at least, at least the parts of the world that matter. That boat had better be going somewhere fairly isolated.
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Yogimus wrote:Toilet paper, cigarettes, batteries, bottlecaps, and coffee will be the hot commodities.
Tobacco would be a short term high value, as you can grow it in much of the US.

Coffee, on the other hand..
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HTRN wrote:
Yogimus wrote:Toilet paper, cigarettes, batteries, bottlecaps, and coffee will be the hot commodities.
Tobacco would be a short term high value, as you can grow it in much of the US.

Coffee, on the other hand..
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Depends on how bad you expect things to be - coffee is light, and readily available in MX - not great stuff, but not too hard to bring up a trade route. Not sure how TP is made - boxes* tend to be made regionally, mainly to minimize shipping costs - not sure if TP is the same way.

*At least the ones I buy - some companies tried to change that, but those same companies also later spun off the packaging lines that I'm familiar with.
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I've been buying small airline (50ML) glass bottles of Knob Creek every month. I don't want to trade an entire bottle of something for a small item, so this fits the bill.

Now y'all have me looking up how long cigarettes and coffee store for.
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