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Do You Need Disaster Currency?

I often think about items for bartering in a post-SHTF incident.

Slightly off topic, there was an article years ago … can’t recall where I read it, but it was about post-collapse considerations for preparation. It has stuck with me. Basically, and in no particular order, when things go bad and then bad to worse,

Goons gonna grab a guys:
Gas
Guns
Gold
Gals
Gear
Grub
Grog
Ganja
 
The Night Rider said:
In a complete grid down situation, you're only going to last as long as your meds
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I know I'm replying to myself

The only Med that I take that I think might actually kill me if I stop taking it is an extremely low dose of metoprolol.

I'm on a really low dose of apixaban and I can replace that with Aspirin.

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I live here. That is actually our first defense. All of my neighbors have rifle ranges on their property.

The Lord Humongous is going to have to get through a bunch of people with guns before he gets here.

ETA just living out here requires some preparedness.

Just our basic pantry would look like Doomsday prepping to people who live in the city.

We keep probably more than a month's worth of our medications on hand.

We keep livestock (chickens) if we rationed it to the USDA 2000 calories a day, we could probably survive on the eggs indefinitely.

Most importantly for us, we have a backup power source and a back of heating system. Actually our furnace is our back up heating system.

Bottom line is we're pretty well set up
 
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This is something I've mentioned previously multiple times, everything is something I've mentioned previously multiple times. That's how I know I'm old.

This time, I'm going to be as brief as I possibly can to get to the main point.

I'm saying this part just for clarification, the first two guns I bought I bought in 1983. It was a 22 caliber rifle and a 30-30 rifle. I sold them to a pawn shop in Tampa two years later and I didn't buy any other firearms until the day I got out of the Army.

So when I started buying guns after the army I had no Rhyme or Reason to it. I bought whatever gun I thought was cool that day. I actually bought guns more for the endorphin rush of buying something new than for any other reason.

I've stated this previously, I want to reiterate it. I had so many different calibers of handguns that I couldn't keep up with an adequate supply of ammunition for them all, I couldn't keep up with an adequate supply of magazines or accessories for them all. I had a bunch of different guns but I had maybe a box or two of ammunition for each one.

In 2013 my employer got permission from the city to arm all the guards. I'm not going to go through the whole story again I'm just going to reiterate that we were only permitted to carry a semi-automatic pistol either in 9 mm or .40 Smith & Wesson because of a city ordinance.

So my wife and I sold off every gun we owned that did not meet that criteria and started over again. The largest single group of handguns that I own will all run on a Glock 19 magazine and all but one of them are 9 mm.

So the point I'm trying to make here is that ammunition and magazines are a prep. I seem to find it much easier to keep a good supply of four calibers than I did of 19 (That's an exaggeration but not much of one).

The truth is I really only stock for three calibers .22, .223 and 9 mm. I have O
one .40 Smith & Wesson handgun. I just counted the other day I think I have 3000 rounds on hand for it. At my current rate of consumption that will probably last me until Jesus comes back.

So this is the point that I try to make every time I bring this up ammunition right now is relatively cheap and readily available.

It's not as cheap or available as it was in 2013 but I bet it's cheaper and more available than it will be in 2026 and sure as hell it's more available and cheaper than it will be in 2028 when I will almost guarantee you we're going to see a blue wave and a hardcore press to disarm us all.
 
I keep some cash handy. We had an ice storm that knocked out electric service for days in some areas. The stores that did open couldn't process credit/debit cards, it was cash only. I do some FOREX trading, holding foreign currencies for speculation but also some reserves. I don't keep much water on hand, a few cases, as I'm on city water and I'm in an area of lakes, rivers and public water features where collection would be easy, even if guarded. As for bartering, I have stuff, ammo and if things get really bad I can trade off the old lady......
 
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