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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
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 Posted - 02/10/2010 : 19:10:27
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Ardent? the main reason that I hold cash is that the sheeps is all that they know and at first they will be desperated to sell anything at what ever the price in order to buy food or.....and more important of all.......to move to a "safe" location.
I will buy a like new Mercedez for two to three thou or at five to ten percent of the original cost........this is only an example because I will have no need for such a car.
Think of all the stuff with the "Made In China" label, none of that will be coming in and what ever comes in will be at a very high price.
Also, If they want $5,000 in cash for the Mercedez example you can offer them two or three thou in silver......which one do you think that they will accept? remember that by then silver will be at a much higher price.
Very interesting times ahead for one and all. |
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"...Ponce |
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pennywise
New Member
USA
23 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2010 : 21:36:36
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| As far as I can understand it, if you have the storage, time, and permanent residence, you'd be choosing pennies over nickels. I just don't get nickels, when there is the penny option. |
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Cherokee_Bill
New Member
USA
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Posted - 02/10/2010 : 21:38:34
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keeping yourself prepaired is a good idea. Saving or hoarding what you think or know to have value is also a good idea. BUT to run or
hide when your country (U.S.A) needs help??????????
Leave now and take your treasure with you, you poor little boy before things get tough. |
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
630 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2010 : 22:23:56
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Cherokee, did you say "For my country"......remember that I am from Cuba, I am out of Cuba but Cuba will always be inside of me. I did my share for the US in the army, six years, and another X ammount working for a US government civilian outfit.
My first two plans are to remain in the US with the third one to get the hell out of the US. The Americanos usually make fun of the bananas republic for having so many revolucions in order to kick out El Presidente and usually that happens when only 18 to 20% of the people are against him.
Here in the US up to 74% were against Bush and yet......no one did anything about it.....where are your cojones?
It is part of the US Constitution that "We The People" have the right to overthrow the government if they are not in power for the benefit of the people.
Only when you know who are the ones dictating the future of America from behind the curtain, and do something about it, will you be free once again.....but even if you were to do that, the recovery of the US economy will take two to three generations, maybe even longer, to recover from the damage done to us by "those people".
And in case you don't know who I am talking about I'll tell you in plain English......they are the Khazar, European, Zionist, Israelis wana be Jews.
It waesn't till 1998, thanks to the WWW, that I began to learn that not all Jews are the ones from the Bible and that 1/3 of all Arabs are also Semites as the Jews from the Bible.......The "real" Jews consist of only 10% of all those who called themselves "Jew".
Learn from the WWW, and from different sites, as to who were the founders of the Communist party and who were five of the seven merbers of the Poliburo.....also the Commisars and the secret police.
Don't take it from me, do your own search and start with the key word "Khazard" and you will see that the many roads will indeed guided you to Rome, or those people.
Anyway, I welcome any questions about anything or any comment that you may have about the econmy or anything else.....even if I don't have the answers to all I do have an opinion about all hahahahahahah.
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Cherokee_Bill
New Member
USA
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Posted - 02/10/2010 : 22:37:03
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| I'm sorry but are you for real????? |
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
630 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2010 : 23:13:36
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You must be a very simple person with a very simple question, I like that  ........you betya I am......at least I don't pretend to be what I am not. |
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"...Ponce |
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Nickelless
Administrator
USA
5580 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 03:06:36
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Originally posted by pennywise
As far as I can understand it, if you have the storage, time, and permanent residence, you'd be choosing pennies over nickels. I just don't get nickels, when there is the penny option.
Not everyone has a Ryedale to sort pennies with (and sorting them manually would take a while), but nickels don't have to be sorted. I'm picking up my first box of nickels tomorrow (at long last), don't have to sort them (although I might just to see what I find) and I can spend my time doing other things instead of sorting through a bunch of zinc pennies manually to find a few coppers. |
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
4841 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 08:31:32
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Originally posted by pennywise
As far as I can understand it, if you have the storage, time, and permanent residence, you'd be choosing pennies over nickels. I just don't get nickels, when there is the penny option.
As Nickelless said, no sorting needed. I love this site and respect those who sort, but other than for a couple thousand dollars of hand sorting I just don't have the time to devote to it. Even if I had a machine I wouldn't have enough time to devote to it. |
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
630 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 12:05:14
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Good for you Nick, about time you pay attention to Saint Ponce of the nickels hahahahahahahahaha.
Ardent? you are so right.....checking all my coins for dates and conditions would take me for ever, I am retired and doing that to me would be like working........no way Jose.
I have seen posts at other sites where they are also buying nickels but the names of those are unk to me, they must be visitors only to this site. |
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"...Ponce |
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Lemon Thrower
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1588 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 12:10:27
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| its also good to have some cash outside of the banking system, even if it weighs 22lbs per $100. |
Buying:
Peace/Morgan G+ at $15.00
copper cents at 1.3X
wheat pennies at 3X
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Nickelless
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
630 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 13:53:05
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Tell me about it, those 50 bricks on the back of the truck dug a hole in the mudd 5 inches deep with the tires.
A friend helped me to bring in the bricks in his truck and help me to put them away... as brick number 49 went in I close the door really fast like and he yelled at me....."Hey Ponce, wait wait one more to go" and I answered back "OH no, sorry to late, you may as well keep it" hahahahhhahahaha. |
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"...Ponce |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2408 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 14:01:51
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I knew those nickel bricks were heavier than the copper penny bricks, but hadn't got around to weighing one. Wow, 22 lbs? I'm not surprized at the weight, just at how little of it my weakening-with-age geezer arms are complaining at having to move. I buy nickbricks if the cash builds up faster than the penny reloads allow for.  |
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
630 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 16:33:00
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Age "geezer?"........are you talking to me? LOL, I am 70 and if I can do it so then can you.
The funny part about unloading the truck......the more that I unloaded the heavier that they became and the happier that I got hahahahahahaah......did sleep pretty good that night. |
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"...Ponce |
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agnut
New Member
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 Posted - 02/11/2010 : 18:00:18
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Hey Ponce. How ya doin’ ? Just signed up here at Realcent. Thanks.
For those of you who don’t know Ponce, I would recommend that you listen to him closely. I’ve known him for years and have gained a great amount of knowledge from his “tutelage”. And boy can he toot !
I’m also collecting bricks of nickels. Only have 4 bricks so far but am just beginning. A couple of days ago I asked my bank if they would get bricks for me; I even offered to pay a carrying charge if necessary. They said no problem and no carrying charge. I had to only call them and order as many bricks as I wanted and they would call me when they came in. I would like to order 5 bricks at a time; more at a time might attract too much attention.
I know that there is a time factor here in which we will no longer be able to get nickels in quantity. Maybe 6 months, maybe a year, maybe longer. With this uncertainty I will pretend that there is only 6 months left and will collect as many bricks as I can in that time. When the announcement comes that nickels will either be discontinued or minted in steel , it will be too late.
Years ago I was a rare coin collector. My specialty was three cent silvers (1851 to 1873), shield nickels and liberty nickels. Both proof and mint states. But that was then and they have all been sold. It was fun chasing down rare dates in completing a type set. But I never made any money from it. Just a rich man’s hobby and I am not rich (especially after the last divorce).
It isn’t hard to decide whether to hold a brick of nickels rather than a paper hundred dollar bill. But is will be a balancing act of how many bricks to hold against my living expenses. The nice thing about having bricks of nickels as opposed to having physical silver and gold is that there is ZERO premium for either buying or selling. So nothing to lose (except a sore back). And if there is a currency devaluation, I will be in the catbird seat.
Best wishes,
Agnut
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
630 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 18:38:36
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Heyyyyyyyyyy buddy, welcome to the club.......I know that you will have fun posting here because they are willing to to ask questions in order to learn something.
The fun part about being here is that they don't make fun of my poor English hahahahahahah and even if someone were to do it......who cares.....being in my present position for being ready for what is come they would be doing themselves a disfavor for not learning from what I am saying........by the way, my nom de guerre here is "Saint Ponce" holy man holder of the sacret nickels hahahahahahahahah. |
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"...Ponce |
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
4841 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 19:31:17
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| Welcome agnut, it is nice to meet someone new who stacks the bricks. |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
630 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 21:52:42
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| Uffffffffffffffffffff beauanderos get an easier name to write hahahaahaha, you are still a young pup at 59......... |
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"...Ponce |
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
4841 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 21:58:41
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Originally posted by Ponce
Uffffffffffffffffffff beauanderos get an easier name to write hahahaahaha, you are still a young pup at 59.........
Lol! Sometimes I have to copy and paste some of these names so I can get them straight. I'm 56 so that makes me a young pup too. I think I'll go to bed while I'm still feeling good about that.  |
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johnbrickner
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 02/12/2010 : 00:14:40
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Where to start??
Going to a safe place with your family alive and intact (be it a caribbean island, Central or South American county, where ever) is better than being dead (unregistered firearm pryed from your cold dead fingers) in your front yard with a Grand Union, Union Jack, or Don't Tread on Me waving from your flag pole. Nor would I call it Unamerican. Self-preservaton is more important than any patriotism, what a president may tell you to do that is right, or any other form of nationalistic brainwash.
Don't get me wrong. I love the country where I was born; where my forefathers imigrated before it was a country, what it once stood for, where I worked within the system leading a major political party (status lasted a year,) founded, lead, and grew grass roots organizations for the same and held several local positions in my town as a member of that Party in order to fix the system. I stood on the shoulders of the Giants that preceeded me to make things happen. Maybe I made a difference, maybe I didn't. Maybe I just bought us some time.
I however, do not trust "our" government that treats it's people as sheep to be fed, shorn and slaughtered as IT sees fit. My conclusion is, our country is unfixable as is. This because to many people want to stay as sheep, will not look up, nor become aware.
I will leave if necessary for the preservation of my family as my forefathers did when they decided to do the same. Currently researching the above just to live a BETTER LIFE. Smarter and wealther people than I have already done so, and dumped their American Citizenship along the way to disasociate themselves from and get out from underneith "our" government.
I don't reinvent what works. I fight the good fight with the resources before me when it's worth fighting. I do whatever it takes.
And on a less serous note, at 52 I'm a young pup too. As a hobby, I sort and horde Cu pennys and nickels. It's work and when I've had enough, sorted enough or the time is right, I'll buy the bricks while I still can. And Ponce (you old geezer) you just keep teaching us young pups what it is we need to know. I know a shepard (or is it a wolf in Saint's clothing?) when I see one. LOL :D |
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 02/12/2010 : 08:08:35
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Originally posted by johnbrickner
Where to start??
Going to a safe place with your family alive and intact (be it a caribbean island, Central or South American county, where ever) is better than being dead (unregistered firearm pryed from your cold dead fingers) in your front yard with a Grand Union, Union Jack, or Don't Tread on Me waving from your flag pole. Nor would I call it Unamerican. Self-preservaton is more important than any patriotism, what a president may tell you to do that is right, or any other form of nationalistic brainwash.
Don't get me wrong. I love the country where I was born; where my forefathers imigrated before it was a country, what it once stood for, where I worked within the system leading a major political party (status lasted a year,) founded, lead, and grew grass roots organizations for the same and held several local positions in my town as a member of that Party in order to fix the system. I stood on the shoulders of the Giants that preceeded me to make things happen. Maybe I made a difference, maybe I didn't. Maybe I just bought us some time.
I however, do not trust "our" government that treats it's people as sheep to be fed, shorn and slaughtered as IT sees fit. My conclusion is, our country is unfixable as is. This because to many people want to stay as sheep, will not look up, nor become aware.
I will leave if necessary for the preservation of my family as my forefathers did when they decided to do the same. Currently researching the above just to live a BETTER LIFE. Smarter and wealther people than I have already done so, and dumped their American Citizenship along the way to disasociate themselves from and get out from underneith "our" government.
I don't reinvent what works. I fight the good fight with the resources before me when it's worth fighting. I do whatever it takes.
And on a less serous note, at 52 I'm a young pup too. As a hobby, I sort and horde Cu pennys and nickels. It's work and when I've had enough, sorted enough or the time is right, I'll buy the bricks while I still can. And Ponce (you old geezer) you just keep teaching us young pups what it is we need to know. I know a shepard (or is it a wolf in Saint's clothing?) when I see one. LOL :D
Nice post.
This nation was founded by folks who decided to leave despotic regimes...
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Ponce
Penny Hoarding Member
Cuba
630 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2010 : 09:35:07
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LOL John, I should keep my mouth shut because the less nickels that people have the more valuable that my nickels would be.....but hey, my plate is already full and I can eat only so much.
To one and all, remember to buy first what you need in order to survive and then with the left over buy pm and nickels......at one time I would had said that the number one thing to do is to have no debts but as time goes by is going to matter less and less because there will be so many in the sink hole.
First thing to buy is food, gun and ammo, home security.......I found out that the safest food to keep in stock is food in cans and what you can vacoon bag.....I had a few boxes of saltine crackers that I had to throw away because after five years they became no good, even the deers in my yard would not eat them........but of course if you are able to rotate your food then is is ok, being single I am not able to ratate all that I have so that I simply trow it away and buy a fresh supply.
The three "main" firearms to have at hand is a hand gun, shoot gun and a rifle and after that anything else would be a back up for reasurance.....don't buy tons and tons of ammo, after all, you and the enemy will not be sittina a mile apart taking pot shot at each other. Most fire fights last a very short time and if you are the winner you can then take his gun and ammo, by the way, nice to have also a .22
The best crime prvention that I have is one called "Driveway Alert", the alert box outside and the monitor inside, the batteries (4 AA) in the alert box will last for a year, I change it every six months, you can buy three more alert boxes for a total of four....the reciever with one alert box about $60.00 and the three extra alert boxes for $39.00 a piece..... I have two complete units of them.....8 alert boxes and 2 monitors.
Also have a small key chain little box with three butons that controls the on and off swich for the light at three different locations in my property, when ever I hear a noise I simply turn the lights on from my bed and leave them on for a few seconds.
Also have two boat spot lights that you can control to make them go right or left or up and down, have two of them, I attached a tv camer to the top of both of them with a monitor at the foot of my bed.....when one of my alarms goes off I simple turn one of them on and look at the location from where the alarm went off, without getting our of bed.....I had to extend all the wires for 100 feet.
The three above items from "Sportsmanguide.com...tv and monitors from "Swann" for $60.00
Anyway.......let me eat something........The Old Geezer ahahahahahahahaha. |
"If you don't hold it, you don't own it"...Ponce |
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Common Cents
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 14:32:21
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Hey Agnut, welcome to Realcent.
This thread is like a GIM reunion!
I'm concentrating on pennies for now, but I fully intend on stacking up some bricks of nickels once the penny thing starts to dry up. When the percentage of copper in circulation dips into the single digits, I don't see myself spending too much time sorting. That is when I will start to focus on nickels. But if they were to announce a composition change for nickels, that would get me building my nickel hoard with gusto. Fortunately for me, my lifestyle allows me to devote enough time to sort pennies. But I can totally see why others would be drawn to nickels if they didn't have the time.
Metal is metal. When paper currency collapses, you can't have enough metal on hand. Nickels, pennies? It won't matter once the dollar is in a downward spiral. You'll just be glad that you traded your FRNs for a real commodity.
So good luck to everybody in acquiring the metal of their choice! |
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 02/14/2010 : 14:48:34
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Originally posted by Common Cents
Hey Agnut, welcome to Realcent.
This thread is like a GIM reunion!
I'm concentrating on pennies for now, but I fully intend on stacking up some bricks of nickels once the penny thing starts to dry up. When the percentage of copper in circulation dips into the single digits, I don't see myself spending too much time sorting. That is when I will start to focus on nickels. But if they were to announce a composition change for nickels, that would get me building my nickel hoard with gusto. Fortunately for me, my lifestyle allows me to devote enough time to sort pennies. But I can totally see why others would be drawn to nickels if they didn't have the time.
Metal is metal. When paper currency collapses, you can't have enough metal on hand. Nickels, pennies? It won't matter once the dollar is in a downward spiral. You'll just be glad that you traded your FRNs for a real commodity.
So good luck to everybody in acquiring the metal of their choice!
Welcome to you too. It is always great to meet guys and gals with common sense like you. |
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