It's good to have so much earnings and money it's easy to lose track. Fortunately I can say the same in a general sense too! You just are smarter investing in steem at a dollar. I should followed in your foot steps! But we are both very blessed people in this regard :)

For the metals, after hours and hours of research I decided on www.goldsilver.com

Run by the well known and famous in the metals world Mike Maloney. He is trustworthy and his company gets great reviews. But the number one reason I use his service is because is he will store your metals for you in four different locations around the world with military grade security, insurance, and detailed accounting of what you owned. For 6 dollars a month for every 10,000 USD of metals. For gold that's not much space and kind of like whatever. But I'm loading up on silver. So that's a fantastic storage deal for silver.

But above all else, storing this stuff is most important to me, living out of backpack I literally have nowhere to put it. So this makes owning the stuff super easy. I can take physical delivery of it anytime, and also with a few clicks of the mouse he will buy it back from me and it's liquidated and money sent right into my bank account.

One more super huge bonus. He accepts bitcoin! So from Steem ----->Bitcoin------>metal, bypassing fiat currency all together! How cool is that!

Anyway. Hope this helps, and thank you for your nice comment on my 1000 follower post. Sincerely meant every word I wrote in that post. You're support and friendship has been very significant and greatly appreciated. Thank you for that and have a great day! -Dan