Generational Planning: An eye toward the future.

[aristobolus]

Greetings fellow hoarders. I have not posted for several years, but am back. My three sons are now grown up a bit which affords me a little time to maybe start sorting/searching again.

One thought I have had for some time is that hoarding precious metals in order to profit for one's self is only part of the story. While sorting pennies several years ago, I told my kids that years from now the United States will not exist as it does today, if at all. Little or none of it's language, culture and the like will endure as it was in its glory. However, similar to the Great Empires of the past (Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, etc.) its coinage will retain worth commensurate with the value of the metal in it.

In light of this, one way of approaching building a hoard of copper, silver and gold is to not only look toward handing it down to the next generation, but also to teach them to add to it by sorting and training their children as well. After a few hundred years the heirs may be able to live off of the accumulated wisdom.

[aloneibreak]

good advice

im trying to start teaching the same to my kids

and welcome back !

[Treetop]

In this same line of thinking you might add, to buy and own land. As well as establish long lived perennial things like a mix of nuts and fruits trees and berry bushes. A few acres of trees can reliably provide thousands of calories a year, without TO much effort past getting it going. I dont find it harder then other types of land maintenance myself such as mowing. Diversity would be key to such a set up, so something is likely to produce even if other things do not in a given year. Everyone I know who tried has found more then one fruit and nut and several berries that arent hit enough by pests/diseases to matter much locally.

[Mossy]

I'll second Treetop. Not that I'm in any position to act.

You'd also want to diversify land holdings, have a bit in several states and countries, just as the really wealthy people do.

I have to speculate that some of the wealthy people have underground storage, similar to military bunkers, in areas likely to remain undisturbed.

[Treetop]

A few acres of trees can reliably provide thousands of calories a year,

lol I meant this to mean 1000s of calories per day over the course of a year. In other words, leave your offspring a few acres set up in this manner and they will always have food to go with their value holding metals. Assuming they keep the land of course.