The euro was down to 1.30 today.....Everyone is panicking and starting to panic and dump it and buy USD or PM's....And at the same time PM's are being MASSIVELY manipulated to keep them down.......It's all going down BIGTIME................Prepare yourselves ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While were all filling our mattresses with PMs it might be a good idea to spend an additional $1000 on some food grade 200L open top drums. Then fill them with rice, beans, salt, sugar, powered mild, pasta, Vegemite, muesli bars. etc etc. Just in case...
Good point jackbrown , while all the above is scary enough it does not relate to the very real effects as to what may happen in the "real" world . The recession of the 1930's was bad, really bad for the everyday person but people back then still had a link to the land and were much more self reliant as opposed to this day and age. That and the difference in population with about 5 billion more mouths to feed now as compared to then and a centralisation of population never seen before all totally reliant upon a just in time system to eat and dependent on electricity, sewage and water, fuel for transport, law and order etc. People are hard up surviving with a week of Cyclone induced power loss and access to Woolies or Coles in my own area alone which has quite a small population relative to major city's. The cascading/domino effect of banking failure, bank runs, credit freeze, people not getting paid, not being able to buy food and other necessity's , Fuel droughts, etc etc are a lot more scary on top of the above when you consider they are the end result. The effects of social media should also be considered once the inevitable happens as witnessed recently in England. Once the great unwashed masses of the world finally click that it is all over red rover and the welfare check cant be accessed even if it was coming, even self imposed community control will not have an effect . Military control may work for a while but even that will only go as far as a soldier is prepared to go while his own family go hungry. Bread and Circuses were the panacea once upon a time, but when the ATM's and Eftpos is off line at Maccas and there's no power for the flatscreen or playstation in the middle of winter things could get ugly fast and could just get uglier as time go's on. Just for minute think how pissed off 20 million people could get with no ability to flush their toilets and no TP to wipe their asses with? then multiply it by X .
I stack cheap cigarette lighters and candles too :/ I also stack "hope"............. that it will never come to this .
Cut jobs, increase taxes. Are we in Greece? :lol: Stacking 6+ months of food staples and consumables is a very good idea IMO.
Chilli your the only person ive noticed that stack lighters...fire is a real neccessity .I always have a few .I prefer the Bic there would be nothing worse than needing one & the cheap one shit itself. Bic lighters last much longer & never fail. The cheap ones fall apart if you drop them & dont last very long
If you stack what you use and use what you stack you honestly can't go wrong. Pick your Target (6 months in your suggestion) and start stacking. Punish mercilessly coles/woolies loss leaders. Rotate (google cansolidator) and relax. If you have 6 months supplies and something does go wrong, say job loss or illness / injury then you have 6 months of breathing space. If nothing goes wrong you have an inflation hedge.
Still better stack knowledge of growing, seeds, etc. You can can live off rice, beans and noodles but not well. The longer you store food the worse its nutitional value.
Got a Mountain fed creek and assorted animals fruit trees and a little garden in a sparsely populated area. TP is a high consumption product in my family tho, all these females would probably use Nuggets stack in a month.
Bic's are more reliable, however once they are empty they are a throwaway item The cheapies do break if you drop them on concrete etc, although if you don't they are easily refilled using a can of butane gas and I have several of the slightly better cheapies I have been refilling and using for years In my firestarting stack I have bic's, cheapies + cans of gas to refill, matches, and my trusty 35 year old Zippo - the "PAMP" of lighters (along with flints, zippo fluid etc.) oops almost forgot my absolute fallback position - magnesium flint stick!
I think we should stack enough fiat to cover ourselves for 3- 6 months too, or at least as much as you can afford, (incase of job loss)
You guys are scaring me. I should stock up and re-read the chapter on surviving nuclear attack by creating a shelter from my 80s "Survival" book. Great ideas there on how to survive at a time when the threat of nuclear war was in the background. From what i recall a radio is also a plus, in case of power outtages. What worries me is attack/attempted breakins by groups of thugs/looters. Without a firearm, how does one best defend their house and family? Rollershutters/Crimsafe on the windows and doors?
