Amazing thread over there. Working my way through it. Confirms what I have thought for a long time. Gold is basically worthless when the SHTF. Tobacco, coffee, booze is much better. Some good other ideas—lighters, fuel, containers, etc. Soap.
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Gold will be amazingly useful in buying passage out of the country for my family so they can get to my FARM in what should be a stable country... and for whatever they might need when they arrive.
I had a Vietnamese GF years ago ,, her family escaped to Thailand/Philippines/USA due to a small gold stash after their father (S. Vietnamese army officer) was murdered. There will always be a need for compact , transportable universal currency.
With that said I think having a STILL would be ideal... along with a few pallets of peanut butter.
Peanut butter has oil in it that will turn rancid. Don’t stock so much you can’t rotate it out every two years.