CALLING ALL SILVER TARDS..Your advice to a newbie regarding silver

The British pound was at one time a reference to a pound of silver.

The very word dollar was for 350 years + associated with coins of silver. Purity and weight varied from country to country.

There is some history and links to associated discussion on this page:

Thread: Get rid of the money system, then get rid of goverrments (Page 24)

No point in bringing all that over here. I believe the discussion goes on about silver as money into more pages after page 24 (memory fails)

You're doing the right thing OP.

Pay off mortgage - check!
Food and water supplies - check!
Precious metals, especially silver - check!

A way to defend yourself - ?