Tangible Assets That Won’t Lose Value in the Event of Monetary Collapse

At the event of global crises, all previous governing and financial systems will fail. The unfolding of catastrophic global crises is not a far-fetched idea. Nuclear war, terrorism, and the prospect of WW3 are all foreseeable events within the realm of reason.

The best way to ensure future safety in uncertain times is to channel electronically stored savings into durable, tangible assets.

Things of real value that are portable:

• Cash (green paper money, which may become instantly worthless, so don’t hold too much)
• Pre-1963 coins (that contain silver content)
• Physical metals (gold, silver, platinum)
• Collector’s coins, stamps and historical firearms
• Practical firearms and suppressors (silencers)
• Bearer bonds or corporate stock shares
• Natural medicine, seeds and essential oils
• Iodine, useful for water purification and protection vs. radioactive iodine-131
• Museum-quality art
• Valuable yachts or boats if used as the bugout transport of choice
• Small aircraft, if you fly out as your bugout strategy
• Deeds to land assets (paper proof of ownership)
• Antibiotics and prescription painkillers or insulin (high value, easy to carry)
• Bitcoin wallets on a thumb drive, hopefully encrypted and backed up somewhere else (will only work if the internet stays alive)
• Night vision equipment (PVS-14)
• Small radiation detectors

THINGS YOU KNOW: (all the things you know are, by definition, portable)

• Medical knowledge / first aid / surgical experience / infectious disease
• Communications knowledge / HAM operator / shortwave radio
• Firearms knowledge / gunsmithing / long-range shooting
• Natural medicine knowledge / natural antibiotics / wound healing / prevention
• Food knowledge / harvesting / preparation / preservation / seed saving / wildcrafting
• Workshop knowledge / repair / making tools / blacksmithing / construction
• Navigation knowledge / compass navigation / topo map reading / area knowledge
• Rural living knowledge / animal care / roping / knot tying / butchering

Things of real value that are not (easily) portable:

• Land, real estate and commercial buildings
  Ranch animals / cattle
• Vehicles, tractors and even construction equipment
• Ammunition
• Ammo reloading equipment / brass / bullets
• Storable food
• Water filters
• Honey (it’s food and medicine, and lasts for decades)
• Salt (very heavy but also invaluable if you need some)
• Water wells, springs or flowing water sources
• Large water storage containers / tanks
• Recreational vehicles that can be lived in
• Solar power systems
• Defensive bunkers / underground homes / shelters
• Alcohol stills
• Communications gear: HAM radios and antennas
• Machine shops or heavy tools
• Large generators
• Fuel stores (diesel, propane, natural gas)
• Ballistic protection gear (helmets, vests, shields)
• Heavy equipment grease, hydraulic fluid and engine oil
• Knives, machetes, hatchets and tomahawks
• Tactical optics (binoculars or magnifiers)
• Portable light sources: Lanterns, flashlights
• BIC lighters and magnesium fire starters (easy to barter, may be portable but are not very valuable per kg)
• Protective gear vs. biological agents and infectious disease (masks, surgical gloves, body suits, etc.)
• Personal hygiene items: toilet paper / feminine hygiene / soap
• Canning equipment, food dehydrators or smoke houses
• Bicycles and other human-powered gear

Things that will be (mostly) useless in an apocalyptic collapse:

• Pensions
• iPhones, Android and all mobile devices
• Digital bank accounts holding “money” in electronic form
• Paper currency (might hold value temporarily, but could collapse suddenly)
• Check books (nobody will accept a check when the banks are down)
• Anything that runs on gas (will be hard to find fuel)
• GPS navigation devices (won’t work without satellites and power)
• Apartments at very high levels of buildings (no electricity means “vertical hiking” up dangerous stairwells)
• Luxury vehicles with heavy reliance on electronics (the simpler the vehicle, the better)
• Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and social media
• Your Blu-Ray DVD collection
• Cell phone communications
• Government entitlements: Food stamps / Medicare / Medicaid / Unemployment
• Academic degrees in “social justice” topics
• Electronic books (Kindle)
• U.S. Treasury bills or other forms of government debt (including municipal bonds)

These lists are great resources for getting on the right track to survive global crises and the potential obliteration of digital electronic systems.

Source: Collapse News

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