I'm about to pay off the house. After that, I'm going to start stacking some silver. Can anyone recommend a good seller online? Some company that is pretty close to spot usually?

Why do you think silver has value? What do you expect to get out of it? I thought about it a year or two ago and then changed my mind.

I am stacking lead.

I think this is smarter than silver.

JM Bullion has a starter pack. You get 10 oz at spot.

Someone that has a stack of lead will take your stack of silver.

You will be hard pressed to find an online company selling close to spot. Part of the problem with buying physical silver is that you get charged sales tax. Right off the bat you will need it to go up by that percentage just to get back to your starting point.

It’s fun to have a little bit of silver for an all out Armageddon situation but it really isn’t the best investment. Even in an Armageddon situation, lead will trump silver every time.

Lead stackers will also take your gold and anything else you have.

I know a guy who has 2, 55 gallon barrels of lead, but I don't think he wants to part with it just yet.

My father had some silver and gold for the apocalypse, He also had some cases of Scotch stashed away. Said no matter what happens alcohol never goes out of fashion...

Precious metals have little appeal to me...People think it will ensure their security, but it won't.

It will get you down the road a little farther than cash, but if things get really bad what can you trade it for?...Food, ammo, alcohol, cigarrettes, household goods, etc. will be the barter items, and a hunk of metal will be a pretty paper weight, IMO.

Wait! Are you thinking we might be needing silver bullets in the near future?

If you buy silver or gold always have it physically in your possession. Never buy it where a company or institution stores it for you.
Always physical, never digital on paper

You can check coin shops for prices. Always BULLION in ozs or pounds. Don't OVERPAY with pictures or scenes on rounds, etc. Just pay straight bullion prices. Think resale

That is my thought on precious metals. If the SHTF what are you going to do with it? Shave a bit off to buy a potato?

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JM bullion. Almost always have something for 1.49 over spot.

And brass?

I use JM Bullion. Always had good luck and fast delivery.

It’s a smart way to hedge inflation. Plus I find the jingle quite pleasing over the shuffle of paper stocks .

What makes you think that someone that has put away some precious metal hasn't also put away some lead? Two different types of insurance.

I have a small amount of one oz coins. Picked them up sometime ago at a coin shop. Silver had been nearly 50$ an oz and has dropped to low 20s . I think I was about $25 an oz walking out the door. Honestly I can't remember. I have looked and thought about buying more from on line places but don't think that it's a great useful long term investment so haven't. For example ammo had gone up over 100% primers over 400% in the same time frame. But I would be lucky to get my money back on my silver now I'm guessing. Ammo and primers will be in higher demand in a bad situation I expect.

But it's always good to have options. So some silver I have.