by Big John, Survival Blog:
Pre-1965 silver is kinda like buying a fire extinguisher. Whether you pay $14 or $40 for the fire extinguisher is not really relevant. If it prevents a $4,000 kitchen fire is the point.
There is a saying in the stock market: A bull makes money, and a bear makes money but a pig never makes money — It gets slaughtered. Point being, you can make money by going long or going short, but if you try to catch the absolute top or bottom, then you are bound to mess up. So you just go get some Pre-1965 silver, just close your eyes and get it. Also, once you are in, you are an advocate, not a nit picker. I bought $25 USD worth of Bitcoin, locally. As soon as I walked out, I was a believer in cryptocurrency.
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Put a cardboard box in the trunk of your car. This is the first step which is often the hardest. Then one day you throw a flashlight from the grocery store into the box. That was the second step, then some batteries, then some beef jerky. Then one day you buy a backpack for it all. That is how it came down for me when I had moved to San Francisco and kept hearing mentions on the radio about the importance of having an earthquake preparedness kit.
Burying stuff: I talked about it for years. Then one day a guy with a Bobcat came to remove some trees. I gave him $100. He also dug me a hole. I put in six ammo cans full of stuff and he covered it up and left. Will he tell people, yeah, probably, will they come and dig it up when the crash comes? Doubtful they can find it after the grass has covered it, but possible. They could take me out at gunpoint in the night I guess. But probably not. At least I gave it a shot.
What did I learn. I want to bury more. Next time, perhaps a pistol, ammo, tourniquet, etc. And I probably will use 6” PVC pipe and glue caps on the ends, because the ammo cans will probably leak even though wrapped them in multiple contractor bags. I would try to vacuum pack the pistol and grease it up thoroughly. I remember the passage from the novel Patriots where of all the cached stuff were recovered after a house burned down, and the boots were the most valuable.
I buried medical stuff, .22 LR rimfire ammo for trading, 2 MREs, batteries and flashlight, boots, shoes, poncho, multitool, and on and on. Go ahead and laugh but it was like my cardboard box, a first step. I feel good about it. I have my affairs in order. It makes you think when you bury stuff. It is a process.
Have a second phone. I learned this from a young hobo’s video. I am on Cricket so a second phone number is only $15 a month and I had a previous iPhone to use. But ideally, I would go to a different carrier as AT&T has gone down a couple of times. Due to the Apple cloud, I have all my contacts on the second phone. Will cell phones go down in a crunch? Likely. But twice I have lost or forgotten my main phone and used the backup phone.
My go bag and big MyMedic.com first aid kit are in my car. I have to assume that I am out of town and in a suit when the crunch hits ill need jeans and boots. But cars are a hostile environment. They get very cold and this freezes the Sawyer water filters and makes them ineffective. But according to Grayl, as long as they are empty, they will work. Cars get hot. They ruin cans of soup, and even MREs over time. So we are looking at beef jerky, nuts, etc. I remember the Chinese tech guy who froze in the sierras. Stayed alive for a while on a candy bar and such. Took a wrong turn and wound up freezing.
I thought pre-1965 silver would be the key trading material but Blackie Thomas pointed out that if it got real bad, it would be .22 ammo. Good .22 ammo. It is so easy to get now and inexpensive. Couldn’t get it a few years ago, I would check every time I went into Walmart but: “Nope, no .22 ammo”. Are we in a window. They are starting to try and limit Glocks in some states.
I watched three different YouTube videos titled: “The best 5 guns to buy”. All three mentioned the same 5 guns:
- Glock 19, 9mm pistol
- Mossberg 500, 12 gauge pump action shotgun
- Ruger 10/22, .22LR semi-auto rifle
- Winchester Model 70, .308 bolt action rifle
- AR-15, 5.56mm semi-auto rifle
I could buy them all, with ammo and scopes for say $8,000. That is an interesting proposition. Especially with the gun grabbers now afoot. I could kill almost anything with that selection and be ready for almost any situation. All for the cost of a zero-turning-radius lawnmower. And talk about trading material. Some day you will be able to trade a Glock for a new Cadillac, methinks.
One grocery store here has a condiments area. Ketchup, mustard, salt and pepper, sugar, Mayonnaise, packs of knives, forks and spoons, and nice napkins. Could be handy in a go bag and zero cost. If you bought $300 of groceries then I doubt if they would mind if you took a couple of handfuls.
