Sure hasn’t worked that way with inflation over the years. Nor with a BROADLY diversified mutual fund.
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Doesn’t mean it can’t, nor that it won’t, but how are your silver dollars buried in a coffee can in the back yard doing? Do you still remember where you buried them?

Just kidding, although I do know a family who - when grandpa fell off the twig - had to uproot the whole back and front yard before they dared sell the house. Fortunately the Friends of the Library they donated the collection of novels to called them up when they dropped one of the old guy’s library and $20 bills came fluttering out from every 25 pages or so…