If you are too poor to be buying precious metals, a good place to start would be to go back to the pre-globalism practice of preserving the summer bounty of food for the winter months. The global supply chains are the problem and doing this will keep food on the table inexpensively rather than paying inflated prices, which is insane because we live in a food exporting country.
Spot on. Grow your own should be slogan that all people should adhere to.
We will probably store 500 lbs of potatoes, 80 quarts of green beans, 300 ears of corn, 40 quarts of pickles and maybe 200 lbs of tomatoes. Counting we raise our own beef, catch our catfish and make our own deer and wild hog sausage, we are pretty much self sustaining.
It is hard work to grow and preserve this amount but damn well worth the effort.