Airplane "mini bottles" if they can be obtained inexpensively might be a better option than larger bottles because they are easier to transport and store and easily traded.
We were just talking about this at work. Now what's better? Vodka or whiskey?
I would say Vodka because it can be also used for an antiseptic , not that whiskey wouldn’t work! LOL!
I live very close to jr as well
Come on fellas! There are known cases of people drinking *poisonous* rubbing alcohol or even Sterno...if alcohol is THAT important to someone to get their "fix" with, they're not gonna care if it's vodka or whiskey. 😃
I was thinking same thing about tobacco. Good point on the minis
Can’t argue with your experience, but I don’t think it’s applicable to a future period when nobody will have excess disposable income. Farm folk are practical, and in a deep depression I expect that when a farmer has a basket of corn to sell it’ll go to the guy that offers 10gal of diesel and not the guy that offers 10oz of silver.
My example wasn’t good. I think in terms of the year or two after either a war we lose or a failure of the US dollar. In those situations there will still be a robust global market for silver and there will be a new currency. If you have lots of silver you’ll convert to whatever the new currency is as needed. Most folks savings and even income would have been decimated, not Mad Max, but it’s a lot closer to subsistence living, and I think converting it to currency or goods in the rural areas will be more difficult.
Country bumpkin here…No one knows what’s coming. I mean the propped up stock market shoulda crashed literally years ago and silver should be at $275 an ounce with the supply/demand alone in our “Green solar/wind/EV” world we live in. If you have ANY cash in your pocket, safe, or bank then you believe in currency. Silver will always be a currency as it is real money. It ain’t just shiny and for jewelry like gold. It’s useful beyond description. So if you want my bushel of corn for 20 ounces of silver you come get it anytime!!
My offer of 10oz was more than generous even with corn contracts trading above $600, no need to try to sneak that extra 10oz in there!
This X1000. I consider myself a prepper. To some, minor level. To others, bat sh*t crazy level. I've gotten a very healthy stash of survival things. I've spent several years now building it up. I've tried to think out every scenario. Some you just can't prep for, like that giant army base being nuked 20 miles from my house. I'm now very low on space for more food. I'll add some medical preps and a little more ammo every paycheck, but I'm now doing very well on all those areas. Now it's time to start thinking about a USSR style collapse vs a Bosnia style collapse. Silver is that area for me. The dollar simply can't sustain itself in fiat form. A shift has to happen at some point.
Do you have a preferred type of silver? Everyone says the eagles. I'm just curious. In that type of situation, wouldn't any silver that can be verified as real be worthy?
I too am new to this. Personally, I say diversify. It seems apmex is the most trusted. You'll pay a hefty premium for the eagles. I intend to have a good lot of junk (90% silver US coins, mostly pre '64) and 999 coins like apmex. You'll pay less premium for things like 10oz bars, but that's not as easily divided if the time comes to actually spend and buy things with it. So again, my plan is to have a nice diversity of coins and types. Who knows if we'll get decades to buy and build up a stock, or if the economy will fall off a cliff tomorrow. Buy what you can, when you can.
Tobacco could pose a storage problem, it all depends on humidity. Seen a guy on YouTube saving seeds and growing his on. Cigar tobacco differs from the bright leaf we know here. Back to the silver still pondering, at the very least going to at least find as many old coins I can! The question I pose what’s the least amount of silver to have regardless of income?
A paranoid type could see this as an attempt to get people to tell the developer who/where has precious metals…If any of you use an Apple iPhone, there's a great app called, "PCGS Coinflation" on Apple's App Store. If memory serves, it's a free app. Anyway, what's cool about it is that you can tell the app what kinds of silver coins you have and the quantities you have (i.e. "2 1964 Kennedy ½ dollars") and it'll calculate the melt value based on current silver prices. You can also look up gold & silver scrap based on purity levels (i.e. .925 or .999 or karats) and it'll calculate live melt values.
PCGS Coinflation
Since 2004, Coinflation.com has grown into one of the most visited websites on coins and precious metals, averaging well over 500,000 unique visitors a month. Its melt value calculators have become the standard in the coin collecting and precious metals community for quickly determining the melt...apps.apple.com
I'm not an Android person so there might be an Android version of this out there too.
I hope this helps!
Of that, we can be sure (i.e. paranoid types)! On the other hand, those people shouldn't be on a forum called, "Carolina Firearms Forum" because that would suggest they have an affinity for and/or have firearms themselves . . . on no, the horror! 😱
Inflation… supply chain…. Corn train derailment… I was trying!!!!
I’ve been doing silver for decades and Eagles used to be the way to go when they had 10% premiums not at 30-50 % premiums that’s a lot of wasted money you coulda spent in more weight. I suggest in todays market 1 ounce rounds stamped APMEX through Walmart.com if you want the most bang for your buck and reputable enough anyone will trade it. Prices go up from there but diversify like others have said so get weight first then when your ounces are up but some maples or eagles or bars etc etc. I am a prepper so weight is first and foremost for me.
Wow. I loaded up short and did a HUGE gain in 2022, only to see the slobbering fools rush in screaming "BUY BUY BUY!!! we MIGHT see a pivot on interest rates!!!!" then "we MIGHT have seen the last of the 1/2 per cent rises" and then a frenzied squealing panic to buy every time the fed says ANYTHING other than "we are going to cause astonishing pain and raise rates to the point where the economy shuts down." In fact even when there is an announcement that we are going to have severe pain... if the slightest hint is given that the rate rises MIGHT be having an effecct.... the market completely ignores the bad stuff, focuses on what it WANTS to hear, and the market goes blasting into the ionosphere. In fact, the DOW if functionally where it was when I initially plunged short back in April. It is utter imbecility and a bunch of market makers sitting on about a thousand S&P points (maybe 5,000 to 6,000 Dow points) of nothing but pure air and hopium.
Buddy sent me a note earlier, said “good day to buy” to which I responded “better than yesterday, but we’ve still got at least 10% weight to lose before it’s good. The dow was below 30k less than 6 months ago, and that wasn’t exactly based on fundamentals.
Keep us in the loop on how this all works.
Just ordered from Walmart. 5- 1 ounce bars of apmex. The total cost per ounce was $28.23.
as much as you can afford
Don't arm the person wanting to trade.....just take his stuff with your ammo...........
You need to fund your life, and then decide what to do with what’s left. PMs have mostly been a crappy investment, they have their ups and downs, but mostly they hedge inflation, equities outperform them by a wide margin. So you need to decide if you want your money to make money or you want to preserve capital. The answer to that will tell you how much you can spend. Or you can listen to the silver bugs, buy all you can and hope that you’ve timed the market right.
PMs are NOT "investments"
