I am down to one very, very well worn coin. I'd like to have two in case stuff gets real bad.

Or a little gold stock.

While I can't afford either right now, I could sell some stuff and raise some cash. I have an old boat and jeep I could sell. If I ever get the jeep running that is.

PT - if you have cash to invest in any kind of stock - go with solar and wind energy. Much better than gold or silver.
As far as our oil goes - it's much worse than we are being told.
The oil barons (Bush - Blair - Brown - Duke) do not want the public to know just how severe our oil situation really is.
Follow the gas prices and you'll see what I'm saying is true. Also the grapevine says they want to start charging taxes on the number of miles car owners travel. Like rationing gas, just under another title.

Even my aunt knew they were priming the pumps for a massive carbon tax when gas prices were artificially lowered so much.

They already charge a lot of tax on miles driven. It is the very high tax we pay on fuel purchases.

I was told by a relative about a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house, with attached garage, located in a good neighborhood in Atlanta, GA that had gone into foreclosure. The person telling me about it had made an offer of $70,000 on the house. She was very hopeful the bank was going to accept her offer. This same house would have sold for at least $350,000 a couple of years ago.

Deeann's investment suggestion is a good one, but if anyone has a good bit of extra cash lying around, they'd be wise to invest in real estate. The housing market will come back, but one has to be able to wait it out. I'm afraid I'm not among those who have extra cash lying around, though!

Some of you seem to misunderstand. I am not trying to increase my long term net worth via shrewd investing. I am thinking about survival due to having equity in something that maintains value in a crisis.

I am half expecting crisis and gold or gold stock maintains its value in a crisis.

I had a couple gold coins. I am down to one.