Oldtent Archives 2007 - 2008

…. just ‘busy’.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/moosemount.asp

… and I think WANKA was driving the car.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/moose.asp

Looking at the poll on the right and spicifically the ‘dirty30’s’ got me to thinking of my parents and grandparents who lived through those times.

My grandparents were incredibaly frugal people. They once had a farm in Oklahoma but lost it durring the depression and the dust bowl. (Shades of Grapes of Wrath). I only knew them when they were in their 70’s or so.

When they passed on we, as a family had to do all of the normal things. Clean out the house etc. They had an old barn full of stuff, and I do mean “stuff” They were definately ‘overstuffed’ (grin) It took days just to clear it all out and divvy up to whomever wanted what. In the back of the barn was an old cabinent of drawers. This cabinent had aproximately 100 drawers in it, all small, about 3 or 4 inches wide and a couple of inches tall. Each drawer was labeled with the contents. There was every kind of used screw, washer, bent nail, grommits, tin foil, string, yarn, twine, old shoe laces, buttons of every discription. You name it, they had it. My guess is they hadn’t looked at it for 20 yrs. though.

One of the drawers had a tag which read “pieces of string too short to save” —- and in the drawer, yep pieces of string about 2 to 4 inches long!! Drawer was full of them it was. I think that the depression and WW2 had taught them to save everything!

If we go into a depression, I wonder, will we ever have the need to save “pieces of string too short to save”? Or will we be too proud and arrigant to save the things that could be life sustaining because we are so used to just throwing “stuff” away?

Just ramblings
Dusty

This last 2 months reminds me very much of the 8 dollar fistfight we had in 04 05 I don’t think we ever see 15 dollar silver again.
And on another note..don’t care what denomination gold or silver is in just GET IT THE HELL TO SAFETY and be quick about it….the hairs on my neck are standing at attention with IMF gold sales possibly propping up a faltering European and U.S fiat and banking implosion. Next you will hear that the scheme worked..and for the good of the country you must turn YOURS in ….or you will be viewed as Unpatriotic hmmmmmmmm….

Just wondered if you took a peek at the chart if Friday’s price move might signal a break to the upside is all. I don’t think the financing is a hurdle either. I was just looking for confirmation if I could risk being optimistic for a possible run to the upside in the coming couple of weeks or so.

…have you been on strike too ?

One Week’s Worth of Food Around Our Planet

http://tinyurl.com/2aabs4

…look at this site…..its a really interesting blog..and this guy is one of us…scroll down and see the links on the right……….wow

goforgold-dog.blogspot.com/

….thats scary…..did you see the German Chatboard who is stealing all the stuff that I stole from Midas…?

…Holy Mackinaw…..that is bizarre…..maybe putting everything together…thats a Luxembourgher site…?….sheesh

When I posed the question the other night whether one might expect the same relative return, given an assumed increase in the cost of the physical metal,  from a small-weight silver or gold coin versus a bar of the same metal (with the bar carrying a lower per ounce purchase cost because it does not have the fabrication costs of individually minted coins)  I was aware that there could be one difference.  The fabrication cost of a coin (one of the reasons it demands a premium over the per ounce cost of buying the same metal in bar form)  should not be changed greatly just because the per ounce value of the metal being fabricated has gone up.  I would expect that the premium (partly the fabrication cost) is now proportionately a higher percentage of the total current $20 cost of buying a silver Maple Leaf than the fabrication cost should be as a percentage of the total cost when the same coin is someday selling for $100.  So in an era of rising metal value I would expect the premium on buying the metal in coin form to become proportionately less over time.  But that could be a pipedream.  In the end, I see no reason to fret over this, and I am buying a range of minted weights in the silver we accumulate, some coins and some bars.  Thanks again, and cheers.  Equiz.

  too

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=fullgoldcrown

…..that google thing is a monster..its alive…it has everything from Obscure Greeny Quotes to Strikerrod Posts..to Google Earth which can see right into your bedroom..It Knows ALL….Google = Big Brother