You would be better off buying ammo. I don't see the point in buying gold.

If your hungry,,,you want some gold or a sack of potatoes or ammo to kill some food with.Gonna be a lot of sad folks if they depend on gold.

Dollars are better?
only if backed by gold.(soon)

100 years ago a 20 dollar gold piece would buy you one of the finest suits available at that time.
Today, the gold contained in that same 20 dollar gold piece would buy you one of the finest suits available today.
Long term, gold is, and always has been an investment which will protect your principle. It won't make you rich.

If it got to the point there was no rule of law,,your not gonna want gold.You will want all you mentioned above and lots of ammo to protect it.

"When the disaster is upon us,,the time to prepare has past".If you have NO DEBT,,and a three months supply of EVERYTHING you would need to survive,,,you are 95% ahead of everyone else.Then work up from there.

Correct and adding to it all the time.
And the US wont have to go back to gold backed currency as long as they have the most gold.
The Brics countries can go that way but it wont hurt the US dollar much as long as the Us has most of the gold.

The US has the most gold

The US will not return to a gold standard

If the BRICS nations are successful in creating a currency for international trade that is backed by sound monetary policy, western debt backed currencies will be very vulnerable

THIS, good to see someone is paying attention!

Be out of debt first or the banks will take all you have. Second have food that lasts , dried beans and the like garden seeds and lots of them and a pile of manure. Then if you can swing it precious metals some of that but don’t let a soul know about it. Of course a bunch of traps and bullets the woods will be empty of game in 6 months to a year. Just look how few people wiped out all the western game in a short time. We already have few deer and barley a rabbit We really don’t have a clue how bad it will get and fast if the big one hits. Of course trust God. Proverbs 22 verse 3 says the wise man sees trouble approaching and prepares but the fool goes on in his folly and suffers the consequences. Ecclesiastes 11 verse 1 cast your bread on the water 7 ya 8 ways for you know not what calamity will fall on the earth. Meaning diversifying. Oh and a gold pan for finding gold.

Whats a gold sammich tastelike?Ill take meat.

gold has purchased meat for thousands of years.

FOMO is a powerful emotion

Rarely ends well

I guess my idea of a hit the fan moment is a little more serious than some on here to me if I'm in that scenario debt doesn't bother me as there are not going to be enough people who care to come collect it.

I have no anxiety, thanks anyway for the advice.

Silver is actually flat. Hasn’t gone up in years. I bought 200 oz in the late 80s at $4 per ounce. A passbook savings would have done better over 40 years. Still holding. Rare coins might do better than bars of silver.

It was not flat when it was $48 in 2011.
Closing on $30 today.

The real wealth in the country is solid assets and if you owe on anything and can’t pay it there will be no benevolent bankers. They will will be happy to take your property from you and will do so rapidly.

There are many, many more bad scenarios than the end of civilization. They happen all around the globe every year.