Posted on 09/10/2012 11:46:26 AM PDT by Kartographer
Moonshine or off the shelf Whiskey. Worth a boatload to a rich alcoholic.
I had to look in Ye Olde Paper Dictionæry to find out what some of those words meant.
I don't have as much as the blog author recommends, but I did take out some during 2008 in my own personal "walk" on the bank. I gradually added some more smaller bills to that over the past couple years. And with the 0.01% interest my bank is paying on savings I may have lost dollars of interest over the years.
The one big thing I need to store is water. I have a few gallons, but that won't last long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
/johnny
Me I keep some small bils, but I have a bucket of change (lots of quaters). If I am able to make any last minute purchases say a two gallon container of gasoline if I pay for it with a handfull of change anyone watching isn’t going to consider me worth robbing other than maybe the gasoline itself, where as some one pulling out a wade of bills would be like throwing blood in the water.
Plus the change actually has some value in the metal they contain, plus quaters make great shotgun loads for zombies. :-)
I have all kinds. There is “emergency” cash for when the power goes out for a day and the computers are down at the gas station or store. “Emergency” cash for that something on craiglist or the gun show.
And yes - $1, $5 and $10 (and lots of change) for buying a fresh loaf of bread or a gallon of gas after the SHTF.
Rush knows and believes a LOT more than he says on his show, guaranteed.
You can tell when he hints at things.
He has an Uber-bugout set up in New Zealand,
and he has mentioned that he’ll tell us when to panic,
implying that it is a distinct possibility.
Indeed, Rush tries to stay out of “kookville”, even when the kooks are correct, in order to “maintain credibility”,
which gives this even MORE credibility.
There’s a new book series out by a gov’t/financial insider called “299 days”. The author was interviewed on Spirko’s show. Very credible as well.
Never keep it all in one place. If you have a safe, fine, but that will be the focus of efforts of criminals. If everything is in there, you risk losing it all.
Split it up, and spread it out. Leave a couple of 'low hanging fruit' stashes, heavy on small bills with a couple of big ones inside to look good, in a desk drawer, pocket, wallet or purse. Hide the lion's share elsewhere in envelopes taped to the back of pictures (or inside the frame backing), inside an old lamp, taped to the bottom or back of a drawer, the underside of a chest of drawers, in hollowed out paperbacks, interleaved in the family bible, or anywhere else you can think of. Never put all your eggs in one basket.
Unless you routinely move large sums around, trickle the cash out in three figure sums or the rare four figure transaction. Transactions of as little as 1,000 to 3,000 dollars trip flags with the IRS and have to be reported by the banks. If you know someone who works in banking ask them how large it has to be before it trips a flag.
Keep in mind any search of the premises by LEOs will likely result in the confiscation of large amounts of cash, so, again, break it up and make it look reasonable.
“Unless it’s a house fire.”
Yes - there is that. I have adapted his old ways a bit, to include a hole in the yard. Dad (RIP) lived through the Depression, and probably learned from that to have some stashed away just in case. Later on in life he had a fire-proof safe installed in the basement floor.
Yes. Water is crucial; you can last a couple of weeks with those $1 bills you hoard, but I don’t think you can make it long without water. Husband is trying to finish his windlass for manually drawing water out of the well. - Getting change if the computers go down will be difficult; that’s why everything will probably be rounded off to the nearest dollar. Do get some ones, though, along with the fives and tens. - Oh, and wake me when it’s over!
Unless you already have water containers or a cheap source to get them, maybe start grabbing spring water from your grocer. You can get the 2.5 gal container for about $2.30 or so. I’ve got several, and THEY can be refilled once I use them.
When it gets about a year old, I use them to brew and then refill them.
Quarters? How do you get quarters in a 12gauge? Or what gauge are you talking of?
Have to disagree. In the words of an old blues tune, “Cash ain’t nuthin but trash.”
System collapses, I don’t care how much cash you have, it won’t be enough.
If you need widgets to live, and all you have is cash, and I have the widgets you need, I know that I can’t USE any of the cash you have, so I’ll just tell you, no deal. Unless of course you have something else I need and value more than cash, like can goods, freeze dried somethings, cans of gas, cans of oil... The little things that one needs to live.
Point of all this to anyone who cares, is to read the other posts here on this thread. There are some terrific ideas about what kind of assets you could (and should) acquire now, while cash can still buy them. Then, when everyone wakes up to the fact that paper money is just paper and not money, you will have the widgets, and the shortsighted will have piles of paper in their pockets.
Parting shot, study up on what happened to Germany after WWI. Some Germans survived nicely. They didn’t rely on paper currency.
Chocolate - sounds like a plan to me!!!
Agreed. If you look back the people who sold gold miners stuff came out far better than 95% of the gold miners ever did.
Drop the gold and silver, too heavy to carry around. With enough brass and lead, you can collect all the gold and silver you want, later. Try diamonds for portable wealth.
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