How does this work? I can make my money at wal mart, but cannot spent their phoney monopoly money there...I think I will make and spend my money as I please...this is still the land of the free..
Printing your own money and theoretically having your own economy is cute, but you have to find people willing to ACCEPT the new currency.
Honestly, barter is better. Not risking federal or state laws, except MAYBE taxes. Whether powdered food, cigarettes, bullets, diapers, bottles of bleach - there are things that would be accepted with universal value by almost anyone.
And with barter, those goods have value even if the local currency fails.