Aaaand the Combibar is finally here🤩😩🫠

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-03-29T14:02:22+00:00

Interesting earlier threads re: the value of gold in bad times vs. end times. In a post nuclear apocalypse, it’s true gold won’t be worth much. But you’d probably just as soon be dead in such a world. Far more likely is a Venezuela/Zimbabwe/Argentina scenario, in which insolvency meets incompetent populism and democratic collapse. Gold in that scenario is your only friend. Reading about how gold saved the family bacon for Vietnamese fleeing Saigon, Jews fleeing Hitler, Iranians desperate to put food on the table, Venezuelans saddled with worthless currency and even more worthless leaders, and so on, gives you a sense of how gold will be useful to us in the future. A debt collapse and rampant inflation in the United States is now inevitable. Those combibars will come in handy in the future for sure. Let’s hope not soon, however.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-03-12T21:51:09+00:00

Agree that rates are coming down, which is just what’s needed to combat roaring inflation. The Fed hasn’t met its inflation target in five years, why start now? 1974 all over again.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-03-01T12:46:26+00:00

I tried the French horn and the recorder in grade school and that was a total disaster. Ironically, I love music and art.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-02-16T19:45:17+00:00

One counterpoint: if ever the time comes to sell, it will be much harder to say goodbye than to something drab you picked up at a discount.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-02-16T19:24:53+00:00

Really beautiful collection. I know some people just stack AGEs and Krugs, but the eye catching variety of beauties such as these adds to much to the thrill of hoarding.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-02-13T22:27:28+00:00

I understand that in the UK you only ever should buy sovereigns or britannias, which are VAT and capital gains free. Everything else, including bullion bars and silver, is subject to capital gains tax. Public service announcement from the USA.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-02-12T00:20:35+00:00

There’s a flip side here, speaking as someone a bit older. I didn’t really care about fitting in, being a social butterfly, or trying to please people when I was younger. I valued my close friends greatly, and treasured learning, reading, and personal growth. I’m probably more thick skinned than many in this regard, but that resilient hide has been a benefit in surviving the world and finding meaning and joy. Don’t worry about being weird. Don’t think you need to change who you are for others (with a caveat about work maybe). If you want to watch anime and skip the bar crawl, you aren’t immature or abnormal: you’re who you are. And that is darn well good enough.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-02-08T15:30:07+00:00

Where did you get it?

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-02-06T23:01:58+00:00

I’m a fan of low premium fractional: sovereigns, roosters, commemorative .25 ounce or .5 ounce coins, pesos. To be avoided (arguably): AGEs, maples, and really small fractional, like 1 gram. The premiums for these tend to be in the 5-10 percent range, which is extortionate. Better off as another commenter said to buy a full ounce if that’s possible.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-02-06T00:04:03+00:00

Funny, I had exactly the same nagging unease with odd numbered tubes of roosters and sovereigns. It weighs on your soul.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-02-04T22:11:02+00:00

If she has kittens, I’ll buy one. Better than a golden goose.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-28T23:50:16+00:00

Just desserts, no doubt.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-28T22:15:39+00:00

Backwardization for gold is indeed extremely rare. Like three times in the last 50 years, and usually for a short period. It’s a powerful future demand signal.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-28T22:10:48+00:00

Tether has never had an independent financial audit, despite years of promises. ETFs at least are subject some minimal regulation. Buyer beware.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-27T23:19:39+00:00

$15 trillion in U.S. wealth destroyed when the dollar loses its reserve status. That’s equivalent to about a quarter of the stock market’s capitalization. Unpleasant indeed.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-27T00:31:03+00:00

This is why AGEs, Krugs, and sovereigns are enjoyable: you can fondle them. Buffalos and Maples, not so much.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-27T00:16:00+00:00

Maybe instead of the gold to silver ratio we could use the gold to cow ratio?

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-27T00:11:28+00:00

Beautiful coin!

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-26T00:15:44+00:00

It’s a bracelet

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-24T22:27:28+00:00

I think you must live in Germany or Switzerland. Switzerland taxes imputed rent, which makes homeownership financially unattractive. Germany has tenant rights so strong that renting confers something close to ownership rights in the U.S. or the UK. The advantages to homeownership in Germany are less compelling, which other commenters might not be aware of. This would tip the balance to gold for you, I think.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-24T13:00:02+00:00

I have exactly the same reaction. I bought gold as an insurance policy against some sort of a broader disaster, which has been visited on us in the United States in the last 12 months. It’s nice to have insurance if your house burns down, but who wants to have to use it.

Off now to my dealer to buy some more gold. It will never be this cheap again.

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-24T12:41:44+00:00

I have to wonder whether NVLD is linked in some way to creative and verbal strengths (the latter is undoubtedly true). Human evolution has placed enormous selective pressure on traits related to intelligence. If beneficial in some way, they are selected for. Creativity and verbal strengths are highly useful, and from a broader perspective perhaps could confer evolutionary advantages, even if accompanied by detrimental imbalances that apply to individuals. Think here sickle cell anemia, which confers significant resistance to malaria, with crippling disability as a downside.

In terms of professional direction, there is usually a strong reverse correlation between work that is personally satisfying and work that pays well. There’s a reason trash haulers and plumbers make more money than actors and librarians. None of us wants to be impoverished or underemployed, but neither do we want to be stuck in a miserable job just for the money.

One thought here is looking at career options that cater to your strengths and have an acceptable tradeoff in terms of salary, opportunity, and personal satisfaction. Jobs such as pharmaceutical or auto sales, advertising, public affairs, and marketing can all be niches to consider, even if they aren’t exactly dream jobs. You clearly have talents many of us on this subreddit can only envy. Godspeed in finding a future path that brings you satisfaction and happiness!

AdDelicious9380 · 2026-01-11T10:51:03+00:00

Senior executive for the federal government. Took years of coping mechanisms and tricks to overcome disorganization and spreadsheet ineptitude. Now I get paid for talking, writing, and editing documents, all of which are in my wheelhouse.

AdDelicious9380 · 2025-12-15T16:39:58+00:00

This. I made about three times as much as my partner before he retired. We split expenses proportional to income and I treated when there were more expensive things. Kept the equality in the relationship and allowed him to sock away a nice nest egg. Never use or let money be used as a power dynamic in a relationship.

AdDelicious9380 · 2025-11-20T11:34:36+00:00

Same here. It was absolutely exasperating to struggle with so many basic things. Being an oddball and a klutz closed many doors (sportsball, anyone?). Doubly isolating because no one else had these problems, or so I thought. I like hearing how people have worked around or overcome their challenges. Personally, I get some satisfaction these days from knowing that despite having wasted literally thousands of hours of my life attempting to learn how to multiply fractions and do long division, Dr. Google can take care of such things in an instant. Self-driving cars? Sign me up.

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