Money. Money. Money. Cash n Silver

6-Pack said:

I’ve been smoking pipes and cigars for years. Pipe tobacco is very easy to store - you just put it in a mason jar and screw the lid on. I’m working through some 2012 tobacco right now. I buy pipe tobacco when it’s on sale and shelf it. I probably have a lifetime supply for myself now.

Cigars are a little tricky because you need to keep them humidified to around 70% humidity.

I’ve vacuum sealed cigarettes before for a friend as an experiment. Vacuum sealed and sat on a shelf for 2 years. He said they were fine.

EDIT: you can age cigars and pipe tobacco like wine or whiskey. Some tobaccos improve with age, so it’s possible that even without SHTF you can sell your tobacco for a premium if you aged it correctly.

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ralph.mclean said:

I have about $1000 in silver in my safe. Problem is, it is all in one ounce rounds. I really need to get some smaller denominations. Also, I have LOTS of ammunition that I can trade/sell. Caronapocalypse has proven this to be a good plan. Those of my friends that were unprepared got ammo at my cost, rather than pay the jacked-up prices that hit us in the last couple of months. AND, I still have plenty...

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ralph.mclean said:

I have about $1000 in silver in my safe. Problem is, it is all in one ounce rounds. I really need to get some smaller denominations. Also, I have LOTS of ammunition that I can trade/sell. Caronapocalypse has proven this to be a good plan. Those of my friends that were unprepared got ammo at my cost, rather than pay the jacked-up prices that hit us in the last couple of months. AND, I still have plenty...

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Nnztg8r said:

I recollect in the mid seventies, we broke out the life rafts aboard ship for their (almost) annual inspection.

The First LT indicated we were gonna open the survival stores and replace them. That hadn’t been done before with ours and doubtful anywhere in the fleet. They’d been packed sometime in the early forties.

When we opened them, there were a couple sealed packs of cigarettes and matches. Some of the salty old guys fired them up and seemed to enjoy them. Unfiltered of course. They pronounced them smokable.

Who knew? (That’s a hella long time packed in a bag and a box over that with the whole thing exposed to almost forty years of some pretty harsh elements on deck...)

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