Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Recommitted - Step 13: $20.48 to $40.96

We have recommitted ourselves to completing this exercise. We never really stopped, but we never had any other ideas for completing the last 6 steps other than just finding money.

A lot has happened over the past 4 years, and we can't believe it's been 4 years!

There's a lesson to learn for sure.

So over those 4 years we have been collecting found money and bottles for returns. Last night we finely counted it. Here are the results (inclusive all the results):
  • 203 pennies = $2.03
  • 33 nickels = $1.65
  • 69 dimes = $6.90
  • 56 quarters = $14.00
  • 7 one dollar bills = $7.00
  • 1 ten dollar bill = $10.00
The Grand Total: $41.58

So we're 38¢ into the next goal: $40.96 to $81.92. In the free report, "How To Double Your Way To A Million", the author start rounding the cents off starting at $5, but the effect of doing that is to lose $62,177.28 over the course of the 28 steps.

The author of the free report also has rules to play this game by, and the only one we might be violating is we haven't bought anything for ourselves with the "extra" after achieving each step. But what do you buy yourself with 38¢? And since we have accumulated this "wealth" by a penny here and bottle there, except when my wife found the $10 bill, we never made a big leap. I don't remember the story of her finding the $10 bill, perhaps she can and will blog it later.

So now we need to figure out some plan to get ourselves from $41.58 to $81.92.
We have some ideas, and I'll blog those later.

Also something of interesting note, when we started this blog, we didn't find anyone else blogging about this exercise. But now there are several. Perhaps we will create a blog roll of them later as well. They definitely will be worth reading to see what others have done to achieve the steps that we need to achieve.

One last thing before I sign off for the night.

This blog is free, and we put our opt-in page for the report on BlinkWeb.com is also free.  In fact you can host as many little websites as you want at BlinkWeb.com.

There is an affiliate program that we signed up for (for free) with the author of "How To Double Your Way To A Million", so if you purchase anything along with that free report, we'll earn a little $ towards our next step. We'll also earn from the ads on this page, too, and I mention all of that to anyone who is thinking of starting on this journey with us and want to duplicate what we are doing.

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