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<p>[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 3382559, member: 77814"]Back a few years in 2003 with midwest black out I found out there were two things that had value: (1) cash & (2) gasoline.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm pretty sure the bullion dealers were closed, as most of the non-food stores at that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it's totally dependent upon the "emergency".</p><p>If you have PMs and need to convert it to cash quickly, well, you just might be out of luck dependent upon the type of emergency.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's why it doesn't bother me to have it in a SDB. You have to convert it to cash first anyways to use it. Thus the reason I have cash .. you don't have to convert that at all and it's immediately usable "as-is".</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone mentioned the $100. This is the exact reason I only store up to $50 bills. $100s go into the SDB as they are not accepted everywhere .. of course in an emergency they may? but if you have enough of the rest of the stuff you'd be fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you need to "define" the type of emergency,</p><p>and the outlets/places for conversion and hope they are not affected by the identified emergency. Don't forget, times changes, ppl retire, places close, etc into your short or long term thinking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 3382559, member: 77814"]Back a few years in 2003 with midwest black out I found out there were two things that had value: (1) cash & (2) gasoline. I'm pretty sure the bullion dealers were closed, as most of the non-food stores at that time. So it's totally dependent upon the "emergency". If you have PMs and need to convert it to cash quickly, well, you just might be out of luck dependent upon the type of emergency. That's why it doesn't bother me to have it in a SDB. You have to convert it to cash first anyways to use it. Thus the reason I have cash .. you don't have to convert that at all and it's immediately usable "as-is". Someone mentioned the $100. This is the exact reason I only store up to $50 bills. $100s go into the SDB as they are not accepted everywhere .. of course in an emergency they may? but if you have enough of the rest of the stuff you'd be fine. So you need to "define" the type of emergency, and the outlets/places for conversion and hope they are not affected by the identified emergency. Don't forget, times changes, ppl retire, places close, etc into your short or long term thinking.[/QUOTE]
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