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Give the gift of Gold the holiday season
By giving Gold you will teach your children a valuable lesson in life, how to save!!! See their faces light up on Christmas morning when they open a box of Gold. The smile in their faces will be something for you to cherish to be sure.
Here's some bonus advice to enhance the experience.
Fill an empty Playstation 3 box with $1,400 worth of gold. That should add up to around one ounce at today's prices. You may need to add some crumpled up newspaper so all that gold does not rattle around too much.
On the outside of the box write a note hinting that the following games may also be included.
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops ($60)
2. Medal of Honor ($50)
3. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed ($50)
4. NBA 2K11 ($50)
5. Fallout: New Vegas ($50)
6. FIFA Soccer 11 ($50)
7. Final Fantasy XIII ($30)
8. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood ($60)
9. Super Street Fighter IV ($20)
10. Red Dead Redemption ($50)
11. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit ($60)
12. Gran Turismo 5 ($60)
13. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow ($50)
14. Resident Evil 5 ($20)
15. Madden NFL 11 ($50)
16. God of War III ($40)
17. Little Big Planet: Game of the Year Edition ($30)
18. Borderlands ($30)
19. Rock Band 1 ($10)
20. Rock Band 2 ($20)
21. Rock Band 3 ($60)
Make sure you also write "or their equivalent" somewhere on the note. Life is all about disclaimers and you'll want to be teaching that too.
That's a $1,200 value (including the $300 Playstation 3) plus sales tax.
I can only imagine the expression on the child's face when the package is opened to reveal that the box was instead filled with all that gold. The child's face lighting up and the accompanying smile will be a wonder to behold. You will no doubt be reminded of it each and every Christmas for the rest of your life.
And don't forget the coal for the stocking over the fireplace Mr. Scrooge! Coal is a great source of energy when times turn tough.
I should also mention that it is important that the child finds the small gold coin within the large game box. He might try giving up early and that would ruin the entire experience. The gold to crumpled up newspaper ratio is quite small.
ReplyDeleteStag,
ReplyDeleteAs a gold heckler, I openly admit that I've been eating some serious crow for the past $500 move in gold. That's more crow than I ate during the housing bubble, lol.
mab,
ReplyDeleteI've got $400 worth of gold crow myself so far.
I also ate 4,000 worth of DJIA crow at one point too (when it was 14,000) but I managed to vomit most of that back up eventually, lol.
Crow, it's not just for breakfast anymore!
Perhaps a chart of the gold to PS3 price ratio would be useful. The ratio was about 1 to 1 when the PS3 first came out. It is about 5 to 1 now.
ReplyDeleteThe PS3 is now cheaper and better (much bigger hard drive and a slimmer, quieter, and more energy efficient console). Meanwhile, gold is over 3x more expensive (no improvements, identical metal).
I'm told hedonics is evil though, so I'm clearly still a gold heretic for even bringing it up.
The ratio was about 1 to 1 when the PS3 first came out. It is about 5 to 1 now.
ReplyDeleteWell there you go. That's just more proof that gold was and is under-valued. Gold is good during inflation AND deflation.
Stagflationary Mark, you're just not "gettin" it.
My word verification is "foolts". Indeed.
"Gold is good during inflation AND deflation."
ReplyDeleteAll that shimmers is not gold! ;)
Stag,
ReplyDeleteUnrelated but funny nonetheless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIY7KGsNvoM
Chili cheeeze!
I'm working on a real investors of genius clip. Should be ready soon!
Omg, my word verification is "unflesce". If only. Can we unfleece sheep? Pretty pleeeze!
mab,
ReplyDelete"Can we unfleece sheep?"
Golf! That's what we need.
We obviously can't put the genie back in the bottle but perhaps we can "putt" the genie back in the bottle!
Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: A Drastic Simplification of Finance - Robert Kuttner