I am still young and living with my mother but I have managed to scrape up a tiny amount of silver over the past month. Living in a place famous for agriculture, in which folk know the value of silver well, I think it should be at least enough. However I have many expensive musical instruments and I am wondering what the chance is that I will have to give them up during the collapse and whether they will be of any value if so. I have spent about half my life totally dedicated (for a long time 6+ hours practicing every single day) to learning music and I would much rather retain my instruments so I may continue doing what I love the most while I do my spiritual practices and work to help my community in an SS fashion. I feel my music is a gift from Satan and Amdusias and it helps me cope like nothing else in the whole world. Without it, I would not go mad but certainly I would feel less of who I am. It would just be a huge drag if I lost them. So, can anyone give any suggestions for me as to what I should do here? I suppose if worse comes to worse I can barter them or at least try to if I had to migrate or whatever. Maybe this is just a stupid question and im too worried about things I can always just reobtain in the future. I would say I am not a very materialistic person but a liar is something I am not, as i do get great joy out of having them and the opportunity to express myself. Another few questions, first of all, how long do you expect this economic depression to last? Second, what are the cheapest sources of nonperishable food I can obtain rather quickly? Also even though this is unrelated I might as well ask, I recently found out a major leyline runs across where i live. Can I uset his to my advantage in any way? Thanks in advance for replies and I hope my questions are not too menial or silly that they incite feelings of wasted time upon reading.