Oh I don’t do the Toc, but I’ll bet I could trade some flip books to some itching Toc junkies after the fall of western civilization. You know there’s gonna be some desperate folks once the iPhone batteries go out :)
In all honesty, I don’t stockpile much for SHTF currency. But I live out in the sticks and the culture out here is “horse trading”. You can trade whatever for whatever here. Eggs for chicken feed, cords of split wood for ammo, etc. Much is based around resourcefulness and the ability to repair, refurbish, or just plain make-do. If I were more urban, I’d think about currency more. But where I am, it’s more about WHO you know, not WHAT you have. Which offers another set of challenges.
I could be wrong about all that though. I’m not too worried about what time I might spend on things in a SHTF scenario, because I’m not planning on working a 9 to 5 if there’s no bank to pay my mortgage to. In the end, really, I and my family am at the mercy of the Lord, and I trust that mercy. I’ve taken practical steps that probably put me in the upper 1% pf being ready in this nation. I could invest another 100% in putting myself in the upper 0.1%, but a well placed Sierra Match King could put an end to all of that in a millisecond. So I took some of that prep money and bought an old ski boat. I take the family out on it, we have fun, we laugh. We create memories that we can hold on to and fight for, because who knows what the next 5 years could bring. I have an idea, but I could be wrong. I hope I’m wrong. But if I’m right, we’ll remember those summers on the boat, those times of laughter, and on the really dark nights, those memories might be just enough to give us hope to fight for happier times in days to come. Where I am, right now, that’s probably my biggest investment.
That and US made molle gear