Well, that’s not exactly true – it just sounds funny in a dutch accent with the vowel drawn out like William Wallace’s insides. I just want to be a good Steward, you know, the kind that would make mom proud. I don’t want my family to have to worry about money or to have to miss out on opportunities to live. Because my family needs money to survive and to thrive, I need to be a money manager – the CEO of my own little corner office.
If I could have my way, I’d never think about money. I can even make strong arguments in my mind that hold up to about a minute of intense internal scrutiny that say money should be abolished. But after 61 seconds I succumb to a British like aversion to change and I find myself as deeply disgusted with a world without money as I can be in this world with money. I guess I will just have to learn to deal with it.
So let there be blog! Here is my attempt to reconcile and to rant, to compile and to confess, to sulk and to shine. Money will be my matter (unless it comes upon me to post something about monkeys – they’re just as good). I don’t really know anything about finances, so reader be warned if some off the cuff remark has some semblance of sanity. That just means that you’re probably insane too. All I’m saying is that I have a moderate level of spreadsheet know-how combined with a disposition that loves to see things grow; I reek of amateur. Hopefully experience will teach me a little something-something, but her lessons are always so hard.
I Want Gold Update 2008-01-09
Blogging for a year has taught me a lot about how this little ol’ thing called the internet works. At first, I started this blog to pick up a hobby that might … might … make me some money. I had considered several other hobbies (like baking!) but eventually decided on blogging because it seemed like the most portable and interesting thing I could think of.
I haven’t struck it rich, finding the proverbial internet gold mine, but I have made a lot of progress in terms of making money on the internet. Not with My Family’s Money per se, at least not anyway. I started this blog not know what the heck I was doing and it really is more of a personal blog than anything else.
I really do like helping people, so that is a very rewarding part of this blog. Some people find my articles useful and I like that. It makes me feel good on the inside.
For 2009 I want to make a couple hundred bucks from this blog. Let’s see how it works out.
[...] It hasn’t seemed like a year since I first penned my inaugural post that I titled “I Want Gold“ – but it has been. Time has marched on, leaving its tread on my bearded [...]