Quote: (12-08-2016 09:31 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
I personally lean towards things that hold their value right down to the last breath of civilisation and beyond.
Rare comic book? Not so much.
Gold and silver? Can't eat it. Can't hunt with it. Can't Defend yourself with it.
Guns and ammunition? Store them safely* and you really can't go wrong. God forbid you went full retard on dealing with black market criminals**, in some instances guns and ammunition dramatically increase in value from their sticker price. Even with the outrageous markup we get on Glocks in Australia, they've been proven to resell underground for between triple and quintuple their legal price. In a true disaster scenario down under we'd see corporate bankers parting with hundreds of thousands of dollars of their wife's jewellery for a pistol and a few loaded magazines. When things get truly ugly we prioritise quite aptly, and if you've invested wisely beforehand then you can leverage the new market trends to clean up spectacularly.
Gold and silver are good only if you're going to be forced to travel to escape danger and need a very compact form of wealth transfer.
(* safe from natural degradation AND confiscation)
(** I in no way advocate breaking the law except in matter of pure survival)
All you really need to be free. Land, Water, cases of whiskey, and some rifles.