Cash has to be one of my least favorite inventions of all time. I avoid using it as much as possible.
This year we had a whole slew of currencies to deal with… UK pound sterling, Euros, Polish złoty, Swedish krona, and Norwegian krone. And maybe Icelandic króna on a layover… Plus a few US Dollars…
Every time we were about to switch currencies it became clear these pieces of colored paper were doing nothing but occupying space in my wallet. So we decided to make a real go of it – could we go completely cashless?
You may have noticed that I no longer share detailed monthly spending reports. They were super boring and nobody read them. Instead, I’ve shared our annual spending and explored costs on some of our big trips (e.g. 4 months in Europe.)
Upon reading our annual spending reports, readers sometimes come to interesting conclusions:
“OMG you spend so much more now you are going to run out of money!”
“This isn’t sustainable. You can only spend this much because you have blog income!”
Hello. Welcome back from the extended Labor Day weekend in the US. I sometimes miss this holiday, in large part because it is socially acceptable to consume excessive amounts of BBQ and beer.
It is a short work week for many, and correspondingly a slow blog week(recovering from BBQ and beer?), so there is no better time to share some interesting blog data… I know not everyone loves behind the scenes blog details. (What?!)
But here it is: Sometime today blog traffic for 2018 will exceed traffic for all of 2017. This is about 40% year-over-year growth. Blog revenue passed the previous annual record about a month ago.
Here are the details on what I did to grow Go Curry Cracker.
Except of course for those extremely critical items we would definitely need again some day. No, these most cherished of items were stored in a friend’s basement, because how could we possibly live without them?
Now 6 years later, we cracked open this most precious of Time Capsules, thereby rediscovering the things we think we truly need.
