Your Ideal Doomsday Survival Situation/Prepper Thread

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

You can't eat gold.

Reason this out, in a true survival situation NO ONE will be willing to sell you their potatoes, first aid kit, ammo, or gun. What, exactly, are you planning to buy?

Gold is more about survival in Asia, not this messed up place. If Asians get a surplus they buy gold. If they need money they sell gold. At the moment my real problem is that me and my gold aren't in Asia.

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by em2nought

Gold is more about survival in Asia, not this messed up place. If Asians get a surplus they buy gold. If they need money they sell gold. At the moment my real problem is that me and my gold aren't in Asia.

What you'll need are "Rubes".

Even in Asia, it would go down something like this:

Let's say I have a lean-to and some canned beans.
If you offer me one or two gold bars in trade, I'll counter with an offer for you to pack sand..

..so you can safely store your heavy treasure.

See? You're asking me to trade away the stuff that will keep me alive for some metal bars or coins.

BTW, if its bad enough, Asia will have their own problems and they may not have any room for a rich Gringo with deep pockets.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

… BTW, if its bad enough, Asia will have their own problems and they may not have any room for a rich Gringo Gwailou with deep pockets.

Fixed it for ya, no charge.

[ET2SN]

Gringo is pretty universal, I is one.

I'm also a proud member of the Baka Gaijin.

Remember when the US was bestest buddies with the Philippines, then we weren't, then we were again?