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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow many gold bars do you keep at home?
28 votes, 1 pass | Time left: Unlimited | |
None as far as I know | |
9 (32%) |
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two or three | |
0 (0%) |
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$100,000 worth | |
2 (7%) |
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$500,000 worth | |
1 (4%) |
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None, but I keep $100K cash in my mattress | |
0 (0%) |
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None of your business | |
3 (11%) |
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i gave mine away to Senator Menendez | |
2 (7%) |
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How many is normal? | |
5 (18%) |
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OTHER | |
6 (21%) |
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,748 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,315 posts)relayerbob
(6,561 posts)magicarpet
(14,195 posts)The wife keeps her gold bars in the deep freezer with the dead bodies.
haele
(12,686 posts)Does that count? If so, we have 12.
Haele
hlthe2b
(102,456 posts)Jerry2144
(2,124 posts)Impresses people. More so now that I moved them to the front of my pants
edhopper
(33,649 posts)is a Gold Fund, or a Fund which holds come gold. But that is it. Why would you need gold bars unless you are John Wick or paying off a foreign agent?
Recycle_Guru
(2,973 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)I have a shit-ton of gold and platinum.
LuckyCharms
(17,469 posts)JI7
(89,281 posts)Oldtimeralso
(1,938 posts)They needed to increase the size of the hands of the gold statue (icon or idol) they built to worship the "second coming"
EYESORE 9001
(26,019 posts)If/when the zombie apocalypse arrives, gold will assume a value based on the local market. A 1-oz gold coin could buy you a hamberder Fries are an additional 3 1/10-oz coins. It could be your last purchase anyway, as neer-do-wells and scalawags tend to follow people home who pay for stuff with gold coins.
PurgedVoter
(2,220 posts)But if you are a modern conservative Christer, you might think that number is larger than I do.
Wednesdays
(17,455 posts)AnnaLee
(1,041 posts)Wrap in loud contact paper and no thief would ever bother to steal. No need to hide.
mopinko
(70,280 posts)1 yr i gave my 3 daughters ea a maple leaf to b set aside as getaway money, aka the price of an abortion or a plane ticket.
my ex gave me a couple for xmas 1 yr, cuz he had no idea what to get me.
he acknowledged that it was also getaway money, that i had every right to have a ticket out, cuz he cd be a colossal asshole.
sadly my cleaning lady lifted it, but did not use it to get away.
til the zombie apocalypse makes it worthless, a bit of gold will get u from here to somewhere else.
where that asshole was planning to go, and y, w 3 kilo, i wd seriously like to know.
let me say that a bit more simply- gold is getaway money. y did he think he needed 3 kilos?
Torchlight
(3,386 posts)Absent the pretense and all other things being equal, it's a damned odd thing to do for anyone who didn't come of age in the Depression to even consider.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,842 posts)A little over an ounce.
The 3/8" -16" necklace I bought in 1984 for $200 and the Black Hills Gold slider for $135 in 2005 from a Golddigger's shop in Deadwood, SD. It's all the gold I own.
Appraised today....over $2,500 if I were yo replace them.
niyad
(113,691 posts)Hekate
(90,914 posts)niyad
(113,691 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,402 posts)Gold bars are too heavy to carry around. Now diamonds, thats a different story.
Jeebo
(2,028 posts)An Austrian Philharmonic, a British sovereign, a couple of French Angels. I used to have a lot more. I've never had or seen a gold bar.
-- Ron
durablend
(7,466 posts)Cadfael
(1,299 posts)Robb is a dingbat option?
milestogo
(16,829 posts)This has been my home since the dark days of Dubya.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,507 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,653 posts)prodigitalson
(2,449 posts)all the gold bars
ripcord
(5,553 posts)The Double Eagle and John Wick coins are among them, they are beautiful.
LuckyCharms
(17,469 posts)sir pball
(4,763 posts)My grandfather had the prescience to buy FIFTY Krugerrands back in the day; the family has been selling them off for a while but we've barely dumped half of them. They were an excellent investment.
The platinum is in bars, and don't even get me started on the 5-pound BRICKS of silver he had in the bottom of his desk
name not needed
(11,660 posts)nevergiveup
(4,768 posts)stashed in a shoe box under my bed. It is an old Illinois corruption trick I learned many many years ago. There was this Illinois Sec.of State, Paul Powell from down in Johnson County Illinois who stashed stolen money away in shoe boxes. At the time I thought it was a neat idea so I stashed some hundreds away under my bed in a Buster Brown Shoe box. I can't recall for sure but don't believe the money I stashed was stolen.
sanatanadharma
(3,743 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)former9thward
(32,110 posts)The media, as well as this OP, is greatly expanding their size for effect. They want you to believe it is the type of gold bars you always see in the movies. An oz. of gold is about 3/4 in. by 1 1/2 in. by 1/16 inch. You could fit $10,000 of these "bars" in a men's wallet without knowing they were there.
Towlie
(5,329 posts)
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Vinca
(50,320 posts)Retrograde
(10,168 posts)10 or 12 yellow-colored bricks that I found buried in my yard. Also a lot of plain red bricks. Why they were buried, I have no idea.