I whole-heartedly agree with you, and so does the original proponent of nickel-saving.

Get the bullets, beans, and band-aids squared away first. If you can afford it buy gold. If not, buy silver. If you're so broke you can't afford to buy silver then get nickels.

And that's all I have to say about it--I am so done thinking about this topic smile

And before you ask, NO, I don't have gold, silver, or nickels. What I have is a lot of ammo...food...water...enough medical equipment and supplies to outfit a brigade. With enough friends, I will have no problem getting gold, silver, or nickels post TEOWATKI smile

Zimbabwe recently started allowing coinage again. What happened was that people dug out all their old coins and spent 'em.

Didn't do them any good, as the zeroes just got lopped off the end of the denominations...so their old coins probably bought 1/1,000,000 what they did when they were minted.

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