Gold. Is it any use?

[Me_Again]

Can't argue with any of that really. But I always emphasised that the PMs should only be a part of an overall strategy, another string to your bow. Someone should only buy into that piece of prepping when they've done/bought all else that is needed, AND they have a plan for turn over/cycling. Investments are for the NOW not the then, yeah that's kind of obvious.

If I could buy a Remington with it and if I needed one [which wouldn't be a bad thing to have around if TSHTF] then it would in fact be a good buy. Not only that but it would be a buy that you wouldn't achieve by any other means.

There's another possible thread that you only touched on. If as I keep hearing TPTB [and I don't mean the government] are moving towards changing the way things work, maybe a return to 'yellow stuff' backed purchases instead of the worthless paper backed purchases today. Bonds are the big problem, in fact owing the interest on bonds is the big problem. I think China is hedging its bets, buying US bonds for now and taking the interest, but also buying the yellow stuff' as fast as it can because they too think that things can't go on as now, and, they have an idea of what will come.

There could be a time when, as in the Weimar Republic, you desperately need to buy something and they won't take paper.

So like a good prepping planner I want to have the ability to do some dealing.

PS Bearing in mind my first posts regarding a virus as the source of the STHTF, I forgot to mention FFP3 masks. These are fairly cheap and will keep the bugs on the outside, to minimise your exposure OR, in the unhappy event that someone does get ill they can be worn to keep bugs IN. These are just like the masks that people wear in dusty environments but they will work. Cheap plastic gloves would be a good idea too..