Buy it with what... My silver hair? [grin]
Well you are a special case
You don't see the need for money so you don't need gold
But for those who want gold I can tell you were to get it
At today's prices you don't need to get much to make it worth your while
#1 Platinum
Old catalytic converters. Many crooks are ripping them off from cars to sell as scrap for platinum recovery. Not a good idea
BUT if you have any old cars around you can get $200-300 for an old cat on ebay
#2 Electronic Scrap
There is Gold in them thar computers LOTS of it. Take a look at your telephone jack. The four wires in the jack, and the four little wires in the plug... they look yellow
because they are GOLD
See all the yellow on computer parts, pins and boards?
Yup that be GOLD
#3 Panning
Back in the seventies I know university students who went to Alaska for a few weeks vacation to pan for gold on the Fraser River... They found enough nuggets to pay a years tuition. At today's gold price it is a lot more worth the time (This is an activity for the younger ones though
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#4 Metal Detector Specimen Mining.
While a good metal detector will find gold and silver coins and jewelry on beaches or where ever people congregate... you can also use it to go over old abandoned mine dumps to find specimens of gold missed by the miners
In the early days mining was by hand and inefficient so lots of gold eneded up in the dumps. In fact one guy acquired the rights to the tailing pile at Eureka Ontario Canada, the first gold strike. The rights were $36.00 to file the claim. He then aranges to have the dump, already crushed rock, hauled to a modern crusher... and netted 48 million in gold (at 70's prices)
#5 Hard Rock mining
If you have some spare energy... grab a pick and shovel There are a lot of gold viens in the high desert, not enough to be commercially viable but a few hours of heavy labor and you will get results
And besides, some of the other minerals you dig up like the quartz crystals have just as much value as that gols and easier to find