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It’s SHTF

You have Gold and diarrhea.

I have anti-diarrhea caplets and TP.

I should trade with you because?

Now another guy has two boxes of 9mm and diarrhea.

I have anti-diarrhea caplets and TP.

I think we can talk.

IMHO gold will be valuable after SHTF, but during it not so much.

You have a canned ham, 5 lbs of bean and 5 gallons of drinkable water it’s SHTF. You have no idea where your next meal will come from when what you have is gone. Tell me how much gold will it take to get you to sell?

You are stressed out with other refugees at the Peace Bridge waiting to cross into Canada. Your country is in flames. The person in front of you is just turned away with a bucket of stale beans. In your pockets you have rolls of gold coins. The immigration agent eyes you up. He is tired. Inflation has really damaged his lifestyle. His children need new clothes, his wife is nagging him and his one daughter desperately needs a set of braces. You step forward and hand him your passport. Inside your passport are three maple leafs. He looks at you and then the passport. He stamps your passport with a visitors visa and motions you forward and not back across the bridge.

That is just one scenario. If you are already prepared what is the point of watching your savings destroyed by a currency collapse, bank holiday, hyperinflation, or currency reissue? My only remaining preps is energy diversification. I live in the middle literally of natural gas production. I am going to bury a 500 gallon propane tank for backup to my existing gas service. The propane is not for heat, but cooking, drying and hot water. I am at the point now where a lifestyle change is just the throw of a few switches and the turning of valves. I am very rural with close neighbors. My preps and location change were thought out over 15 years ago when I woke up to the reality of fiat currency.

The reality is we live in two worlds. The world of prepping for the worst case and the reality we will need to still save for our future. Shiny metal is just another form of preparation. It also provides other options when there is a new normal after the SHTF. One option shiny metal will get you is a new beginning when the new normal is established. That sadly may be somewhere else.