I always have. I don't wear jewelry anymore, save for a stainless watch sometimes, but if I did, for aesthetics alone, I prefer silver to gold. To my eyes, gold usually looks tacky, especially on a man.
For hoarding purposes, gold is, of course, better. But that shit is expensive, so, I buy silver. When I have enough ounces of silver to trade for an ounce of gold, I'll probably do that. For #SHTF and #WROL purposes, small amounts of silver that can be easily traded are best.
I wrote a few posts on here. Some made a few dollars. Some made less than a dollar. Whatever. I'm not a writer by any definition. Anyway, I decided to start powering down. First transfer to bitcoin netted me $14.11. The second transfer was for $13.45. Not much at all, but other than a little time, it cost me $0 to earn that. Since transferring $13~ at a time to my bank seems ridiculous, I've decided that I'm going to use my meager profits from the nonsense that I write here to purchase silver bars and rounds with bitcoin. The picture above is the first one. It came in the mail today. And it will always be my favorite. Maybe I'll frame it like businesses do with their first dollar. Here is the other side.
For a long time, I had been buying up scrap sterling silver from garage sales and Craigslist and melting it into bars myself. The silver necklace that I'm wearing in some of the pictures of myself that I've shared in posts on here found its way into one of those bars. I had amassed quite a bit, and then sold it all to help fund this thing that almost nobody cared about. Totally worth it.
I'm probably not going to mess with sterling anymore unless I can get it for just ridiculously cheap. It's easy to find, but melting it down into manageable bars was somewhat time consuming, and an extra expense. The first time I bought pure "fine" silver, I bought a 10oz bag of silver shot, mainly used by jewelers because it was the cheapest way to buy a decent amount at one time. It's not really supposed to have any investment value, because it doesn't have mint marks. I wasn't deterred because I'm interested solely in the melt value of the metal itself, and I melted it down into bars that can be easily tested. Here is the best looking one. It weighs 2.51 troy ounces.
I have a few others that are a little heavier, but they don't look as good. I've seen YouTube videos where people grind them and polish them simply to make them look nice and pretty, but again, I just want the metal.
I think I'm going to wait until I've transferred over $100 of Steem into bitcoin before I purchase the next batch of coins. Orders over $100 are free from the place I buy silver from, and that will help me maximize the amount of silver I can get at one time. Shipping for anything under $100 is almost $6, so if I wait until I have $100, I can get five coins for about the same price I'd have paid for four separately purchased coins. Which, if you've been following along, you'll recognize as more freer free silver. Double-free silver. Frilver.
Thanks, Steemit, for helping me turn ham-fisted keystrokes into tangible things that have real value. Albeit incrementally.
