Sipsey Street Irregulars: This one's easy: "Where Should You Store Your Gold?"

Monday, October 10, 2011

This one's easy: "Where Should You Store Your Gold?"

"I think the gold is back in the far corner, Charley."

"That's all right. We need this first."

In the deepest hole you've got, right behind the ammunition you'll need to defend it.

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pdxr13 said...: I you have more gold than you can pick up with one hand in a briefcase, congratulations!

Each ounce can become 2000 rounds of training and defense. 3000 rounds if you get a good deal on .223. Maybe 4000 rounds of ComBloc steel-cased surplus.

I'd like some of those new-old-stock early FN FAL's being pulled from Libyan warehouses. Betcha they are cheeeeep if you have something nice to trade for them. Espresso for you and your friends? A pitcher of cool water? Charge your cell phone? A clean shirt?

"Diversification" is the word to remember. All gold or all ammo or all food is the path to need and shortages, where you might be forced to do reckless things during desperate times. Maintain balanced stocks of what your potential group might find useful, especially goods packed and stored in a way that they can last for decades undiscovered & untended.

A few hundred Watts of portable solar generation capability to charge batteries might be a lifesaver at some point, especially mated to a high efficiency l refrigerator/freezer. Beverages cool next to medicine just fine.

Got metal detectors?

Cheers.; October 10, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Anonymous said...: Assuming the government doesn't show up to take it from you. Considering who our government now is, that would be a very big assumption. This is why gold is moving off shore and so is everything else and everyone else who can afford to..

When all is said and done, the only thing they will have left of any value is the people, who they will then set to work for them. They will own everything including the people themselves, as slaves. Stick around, it should be fun to watch!; October 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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This one's easy: "Where Should You Store Your Gold?"

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