>FWIW, I host a site for a guy that sells the food... http://www.csin.com/ be sure to stock up now, cause when it comes down to it, according to them the only thing that will be usable as currency is food.
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And toilet paper/kleenex, tampons, condoms, aspirin.

Seeds of non-sterile hybrid plants might also have a value.

When the "end of the world as we know it" comes, I shall barter knitted clothing for whatever I need here in the frozen northeast. And yes, I can spin my own yarn too.

Brush up on your basic 1st Aid knowledge -- for yourself and your pets if you have them. If you have a friendly vet see if you can sit in on a few surgeries -- get a first hand look at wounds and how to sew them up and bandage them.

Y2K will be almost but not quite exacly unlike what we expect. But it will happen and we will all deal with it and get on with our lives as well as we can. In them immortal words of Douglas Adams: "Don't Panic!" --sorry I've forgotten the HTML code for large friendly letters :-)

Jen