My RV is Up in the Air

I made an offer of $600 to a guy selling a motor home in California. He sent me a message saying that he would take it if I could get it moved within a week.
I don't have the money to buy it yet. Payday is Monday. Maybe my sister, Faye, will help out. She doesn't live far from there. Maybe I can get it towed to an RV repair place.
I need the RV for two main reasons:

1. Bug out vehicle for economic collapse.
2. To live in while I search for gold.

I feel reasonably certain about the economic collapse. It might not happen until 2016 but it will be the biggest collapse of history. I want to have food and stuff stored up for that eventuality. This will give me a lot of options.
I also want to go prospecting for gold. I could also metal detect on beaches, and metal detect old, abandoned towns.
Well, its snowing so I'll make some money, today. Later, I'll make some phone calls. I'll keep you posted on how it works out.
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Thinking of Leaving

I've been thinking about quiting my job and leaving ever since I've been sick. I just dont't really want to go back to work. I'm too conservative to really enjoy working at the Peace Center.
I want to get out on my own and live off-the-grid. I would like to try my hand at prospecting and metal detecting. I would rather have an RV but I guess I could live in my van.
I don't know what I'm waiting for. I could leave this March. I still have the chance to make more money, shoveling snow. It's too cold and snowy to pan for gold in the mountains and Northern California.
I would like to go to Happy Camp, CA and join the "New Forty-Niners". That's a club in Northern California that prospects for gold. Their membership fee is $3,000 so that might be out of my range.
I could also join the "God Prospectors Association of America". They have the right to pan for gold in hundreds of claims across America. They only charge $69 for an annual membership. I guess that is the way I would go, for now.
Well, I've got to go home and straighten out my resume. I've been putting it off for a week, now.
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Still Taking Time off From Work

I called in to work today. Maybe I'm just lazy but I didn't feel like working. I would really like to say to heck with work but I need money to get my RV and move off the grid.
I started watching a video blog on YouTube named "The Do it Yourself World". It's by a guy who is actually doing what I want to do. He has a homestead that he has brought old RVs to, to use as shelters and sheds. Apparently he has had people donate RVs to him.
I don't know how he got the land. It's apparently in upstate New York.
Right now, he's in Australia. He's showing people, there, how to set up off-grid power and water systems. His church sent him there for free. I think they were concerned that he would freeze to death in the winter.
He gets a lot of items donated to him by his viewers. Things that he needs seem to arrive in a nick of time. Today I was watching a vlog when he got a log splitter just as he needed to split logs.
Maybe I should throw caution to the wind and take off in my van and find some cheap land and a cheap trailer. I need to research where there is cheap land. There's none around here. Farm land goes for over $10,000/acre. I've got to get away from here. I've had my fill of the winters here, anyway. Maybe I can find something in Arizona, or New Mexico.
I don't know if I have the energy to actually homestead my own place. It would be better if I had a young, energetic wife to help with things.
I tried homesteading by myself back in the 80's. I was always broke. When I did come into some money I used it to trade commodities. I thought I could multiply my money that way and do whatever I wanted. It was a delusion. I lost everything again. I always lose everything when I send my money to Wall Street. Even real estate has been bad for me. I never learn. I guess that is part of being crazy.
Well back to homesteading. It makes sense to me to be off the grid. I feel that the world's currencies will collapse, soon. If I have my own water, power, and food sources, I should be alright. I feel that I only have two or so years before it's too late.
I'm not making much progress in this regard. I have quite a bit of gold and silver, but that is about all the headway that I've made.
You can't eat gold or silver. I have to wonder how much actual utility they will be in a real "Shit Hits the Fan" situation.
Maybe I can trade some of the gold for an RV and land. Maybe I'll run an add in the local classifieds web page about that.
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I've been sick

I came down with a virus last week. I went to the VA clinic last Thursday. It wasn't really too bad but I've been weak and feverish for a week or so.
Julie, my boss, thought that it might be heart trouble so I went to the clinic. It was just a virus.
I'm still losing with crypto currencies. I bought something called Peer-to-Peer coin because it was doing so well in comparison to the others. I'm down about $20. At least the crypto coins don't move so fast that you lose everything. In fact, they move so little that I don't know why I bother with them. The thing that always catches me when I trade is a strong down move. There are time that I wait during a down move to not sell just before an up move. But if it keeps moving down I sell because I don't want to be caught by a big down trend. Then of course, it moves up and I end up paying more to get back in. I think my real trouble is over-trading.
I've got a good notion to call in sick today because I might be contagious. I went to church yesterday and had a coughing fit during the first hymn. I walked out because I thought I would be coughing all through the service. That could happen at work today.
I think I'll call in sick and work on my resume. I need to get it done and Kelley Smuztler at NICC is helping me with it. I'll call her and get some help today with it.
Not much else is happening. I'm still too broke to make much headway in preparing for the financial collapse. I might buy a silver coin today. I like the Canadian Maple Leafs. Maybe the American Eagle as well. I'm concerned that they might take them away during a currency collapse. But what can you do?
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Watching the "MainePrepper"

There is a vlog on YouTube that I subscribe to called "The MainePrepper". I recommend it to anyone, He's been talking about the coming currency collapse, lately.
I like what he says about Wall Street. He calls them crooks and manipulators. That has been my experience as well.
I think I've lost about 100% of everything I've invested there. I'm always trying to prove that I'm smarter than the average person and I just make a fool of myself by investing in risky things. Even bonds have proved to be risky for me.
Part of the problem is that some book or something on the Internet convinces me that we are facing economic collapse and I have to get on the rich side of the economic divide very soon or it will be too late.
A major part of my problem is the delusions of grandeur that I have concerning Hollywood starlets and me being a major player in world affairs. That is all part of my being schizophrenic. I don't have these episodes very often but they mess up my life like crazy.
I'm driven to make a lot of money because I want to prove myself worthy of the women that I believed I had sex with. At the same time I'm convinced that there is a limited amount of time to climb into the ruling class.
I've spun my wheels my whole life. Every time I try to make money I end up in deeper debt than I was before.
The survivalist movement is turning out to be similar to Wall Street for me. I don't feel that a poor person has any hope of actually preparing for the economic collapse. We just don't have the money for it. I've got some gold and silver but I don't have the room or money to store things like food and water and ammunition.
While I'm on that topic I would like to say that spending on guns and ammo is probably a waste of money for a prepper. I doubt that we'll get to a total breakdown of society any time soon. The money may be worthless but we'll probably have water and food and police and such for quite a while.
It looks like we're in for a gradual decline in our living conditions. This month the price and availability of propane has been impacted. Some states are rationing propane and the cost has doubled recently. The stock market went down and I'm expecting it to go down again. I had trouble buying gold, last week.
I'm thinking that instead of a sudden total collapse what we'll see is a gradual bit-by-bit collapse. It's kind of like putting a frog into a pot of water and gradually raising the temperature until he boils. If you put a frog into hot water he will jump out immediately; whereas if you raise the temperature gradually he will eventually cook.
On that note I'll sign off.
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Bitcoin Heading Down

Bitcoin went down last night. I was in fiat which means that I didn't own any cryptocurrency. If I had been trading at 1:00 AM I could have made about $20 to $30. But I have to sleep sometime. For the last month or two the coins have been heading down,
I bought gold and silver with my monthly investment money. Precious metals seem to be heading up. Gold went up by $25, yesterday. I think the bottom is in.
In fact, a couple of days ago I bought gold on EBay and the purchase vanished. My credit union account didn't show it and it vanished on EBay. It had me thinking that someone had run out of gold and somehow canceled the sale. Maybe that did happen but I can't prove it. It seems that if they had canceled the sale that would show up somewhere.
Oh well, The gold and silver purchases I made yesterday apparently went through.
I'm getting away from the prepper thinking. I swear that those people are afraid of their shadows. I can't afford all of this preparing anyway. I think I'll sell the Mosin. I doubt that I'll ever need a high power rifle anyhow. I'll keep the shotgun and .22 for hunting. I still have enough prepper in me to think it's a good idea to be able to hunt for food. There are some public hunting areas here.
I would like to have some cash on hand but I keep buying gold and silver instead of storing cash.
Talking about prepping, G4T on YouTube has changed his thinking lately. Yesterday he said that he was talking to physiologist. He's being diagnosed as bi-polar. I think he is and he hangs out with extremely negative people too much. That and the prepper community on Youtube could explain a lot of his troubles.
The guy who goes by the name "Modern Survivalist" on YouTube had a good vlog about this topic, yesterday. He compared his thinking to that of other "preppers". To me, he seems a lot more practical. He is from Argentina where they have been through several currency collapses. I think he has a better handle on what is likely to happen.
On a related topic, apparently we are running out of propane. At least the prices have doubled in the last month or two. In some states they are rationing supplies. To me, it looks like it is going somewhere that the price is higher than the U.S. Maybe it's going Europe or China. The prices there are 4 times what it goes for here. It probably has something to do with the economic collapse.
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I'm Done With Junk Drawers

For the past 6 or 9 months I've been buying what is called junk drawers on EBay. I always get cheated. One of the last ones had a small coin that had Queen Elizabeth's portrait on it. It was gold color so I thought that it was a 1/10 ounce Canadian Maple Leaf. That would be gold and worth $150. Instead it was a Hong Kong nickle ; worth 5 cents in Hong Kong.
I'm always fooling  myself. I have to just admit to myself that other people aren't going to make a mistake and let me have anythings that is worth more than it might appear. I've spent hundreds and although I might have some nice coins; I'm stuck with stamps and baseball cards that are worthless. It's just a waste of time and money to bother with.
The last junk drawer came in a plastic envelope that the Canadian Post Office put on. It had been broken into and a vial with gold flakes had been stolen. I have to run by the Post Office tomorrow and see if I have any recourse. I think I just wasted $76.
Tomorrow I get paid and I think I'll put another $200 into Lite Coin. I still feel that I'm on the leading edge of cryptocurrency. I feel that by next year I'll be ahead by about $20,000. Only time will tell. I can always buy gold with it. I'm not losing yet but it is going down. After January 31st the Chinese won't be able to transfer their money into it so that is affecting the market, now. I expect a big rise after January 31st. We'll see.
I'm thinking about doing something for the preppers in the audience.
I'm thinking about making a bug out bag for truely poor people. Instead of starting with a $100 tactical backpack I would start with a bag from the grocery store costing $1.00. I would have a knife that I bought from Wal-Mart for under $5.00. Maybe I would use something from the junk drawers. I would include a lighter from Wal-Mart as well. Then I would use the vasoline and cotton ball trick for tinder. I would show myself getting canned tuna from the food pantry for stored food. I don't know what I'll do about water. The bottled stuff is just too expensive, and containers aren't cheap either.
I got a nice camera in one of the junk drawers last week. If I can figure out how to get the pictures off of the memory card and into a computer I'll use it. It just needed good batteries. I downloaded the operating instructions and it seems to work. Maybe the junk drawers weren't a complete loss.
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