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Financial preparedness for uncertain times. Find tips on personal finance, debt, budgeting, and practical investing—including coins, precious metals, and barter assets—to help you safeguard your resources and future, no matter the crisis.

Financial Preparedness: 100 tips to SPREAD your money VS. economic failure

Financial Preparedness: 100 tips to SPREAD your money VS. economic failure

Financial Preparedness: 100 tips to SPREAD your money VS. economic collapse or failure. Save, cut, reduce and go without. Frugality at its finest. One of the biggest things to stress when striving for a financial preparedness is living below your means, and being as frugal as you need to be. With the cost of living increasing at a rate faster than our income rises, as well as a host of other possible… Read more

10 disaster prep & survival items for 15 dollars or less

10 disaster prep & survival items for 15 dollars or less

In a hopes to help the frugal survivalist and prepper out there here are 10 items we find very useful for under 15 dollars. I personally have purchased several of these items and hope to pick up the rest. We have seen a few of these posts recently on other sites but we like our selections a little better. Here are our top 10 in almost no particular order. German Army Military… Read more

Best Place to Buy Long Term Food Rations – LDS

Best Place to Buy Long Term Food Rations – LDS

Are our readers practicing long term food storage preparation? I am sure most of our readers do in some way or another. Food is usually the first thing to come to mind when attempting to prepare for a disaster scenario. A great example of this is when someone races to the store to buy bread and milk at even the mention of a bad storm. Can you blame them? Statistically the next… Read more

11 foods that never expire or go bad

11 foods that never expire or go bad

An empty fridge and hungry stomach may lead you to eat some crazy things. We don't need a SHTF scenario in order for this to happen. Lets keep in mind that nothing will stay good for ever if not kept in the proper environment. Lets take a look at 11 foods that never expire. Some of these foods need to be kept in their original packaging. The list of foods below will… Read more

Petrogold: Its why you should care about both Gold and the US dollar

Petrogold: Its why you should care about both Gold and the US dollar

America has had one heck of a leg up on other countries for many reasons. One of the biggest being the petrodollar. A petrodollar is a United States dollar earned by a country through the sale of its petroleum to another country. Since the 1970s the United States dollar has been the currency the world has used to trade oil all over the globe. With this obviously comes a great demand for… Read more

2013 Coin Modernization Act Update

2013 Coin Modernization Act Update

If you have watched any of my videos then you know its wise to collect pre-1982 pennies and even nickels for their value in copper. I should not even mention silver. Let that be your preface. As we know coin currency in the United States of America is changing. The Silver of our yesteryear's generation is long gone. The copper penny left in 1982 and our last bits of copper in the… Read more

Saving pre-1982 Copper Pennies (Investing or staving an economic tumble)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmv9X0N2e8 Hi... today I would like to talk about the value about pennies. More importantly copper pennies. In my previous video & blog post I mentioned the importance of saving silver not only for the possibility of economic collapse but also because of its metallic value. I feel the same way about copper. Copper pennies. Just as the federal government did away with silver in 1964 by minting its quarters and dimes… Read more

Ryedale Apprentice Coin Sorter Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvy_sCJT8Yk I guess this is more of a preview as I have not had the machine long enough to review its durability. There are several coin sorting machines that measure the density of the penny to determine whether or not such a penny is copper. The RYEDALE is slightly different. it basically acts s a metal detector or an alloy sorter. You put a sample coin inside this unit that stays there… Read more