I don't consider myself a prepper at all. I don't store that dried food crap, don't own weapons, don't have a bunker. I'm on the electric grid, pay my taxes, have a daily grind job. I just have found myself participating less and less in wanton consumerism merely for the sake of having a cache of shiny trinkets.

I honestly had no idea regarding the connection between metals and preppers when I bought it. I merely saw something that would retain value more reliably than the latest fashionable IPO.

Life has been hard and it has repeatedly taken from me. I'll take the blame for some of that via stupid choices I've made over the years. Now I'm just trying to have enough so that I don't have to work until I literally collapse and die at my desk.

You live your life as you desire, and I'll wish you well.

I'll do the same.

When it comes to finances, no two people will ever come to the same conclusions as to what's ideal.