[roadcat]

But it will GET MUCH WORSE, apparently very soon. All I can say is that if you have cash, or even access to relatively low (and fixed) interest credit...by all means spend it now, while it still has some value. We’ll be lucky to to make it a year before everything we need skyrockets in price.

I've been spending excess cash on stuff I had planned to buy in the future. (Yeah, I know, lucky I have cash but I was hoping to pass it on to my now-grown kids in the future, looks like they'll get other stuff instead.) Been buying stuff that's useful and can be bartered, like welding equipment and metal-working and wood-working tools. Later, if I can't buy what I need I can build it, or build it for someone else in trade. Of course I'm stockpiling the other essentials.

[BobL]

“I’ve been spending excess cash on stuff I had planned to buy in the future. (Yeah, I know, lucky I have cash but I was hoping to pass it on to my now-grown kids in the future, looks like they’ll get other stuff instead.) Been buying stuff that’s useful and can be bartered, like welding equipment and metal-working and wood-working tools. Later, if I can’t buy what I need I can build it, or build it for someone else in trade. Of course I’m stockpiling the other essentials.”

You’ve been reading my posts. About the only manual thing that I don’t do is weld, and I was thinking of taking a class in it this summer. Everything else (but food) is stockpiled for around 4 years, and I wonder if that is long enough. At this point, I’m trying to buy a truck, not because I need it, but as a hedge. I’m almost out of stuff to buy otherwise...I’ve spent close to 10k on this project so far.