Basic investments can follow principles, both financial and 'other' gains. Your seasoned firewood and a way to use it is a GREAT investment, and compunds in value especially if/when things go SPLAT!
AntifragilityAntifragility is a property of systems in which
they increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures.
Fire wood and wood stove, independent communication methods, ability to navigate without commercial infrastructure (map and compass /sextant at sea/). Not only do they continue to work in the event of a social failure,
they actually become increasingly more valuable as most systems fail. Self sufficiency in general, follows the principle of "Antifragility". Remember, the lowly, oft neglected, raft becomes VITAL as the ship sinks. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Sir John Honeybucket