I woke up stupidly early on Saturday by the postman, who dropped a hefty wad of letters through our door. Alas, the wad didn’t include “The Thing That I Am Expecting”â„¢, but it did include a very nice surprise.
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Yes, it’s a nice little Google Adsense cheque for a shade under £60. It’s not a huge amount of money, but it’s something. It’s taken me two years, but really it’s been the last 3-4 months which have seen a huge upturn in clicks. I’m already halfway to the next payout, so it should be soon.
The question is, what should I do with my new found wealth? It’s not enough to change the world with, but I feel I should do something worthwhile with my money, rather than spend it on my usual choice of blackjack and hookers. Should I invest it? If so, where?
With that in mind, I’m taking a leaf out of Ryan’s book (who sent me his visualisations of this site and Han’s site, it’s up on wednesday, e-mail me your visualisations before then to be included in the gallery) and finishing on a question – what’s been the most unusual thing you’ve received through the mail?
Comments: 16 Comments
Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
Wow £60 good job.
I would suggest 6000 penny sweets (get them while they are still a penny I say).
I received my wife through the post… just kidding I can’t think of anything unusual. If spam was actually the meat… that would be pretty weird
Hey, what happen to “embiggen”?
The weirdest thing I ever got in the mail is a birthday card from my mother. While I was living in her house. With a postmark!
Those stupid walk-ears were a bit of a disappointment in the post.
Free subway vouchers were good.
When are you going to look normal in a photo by the way?!
The weirdest thing I ever got in the post was a fresh egg. My friend had decided to test the capabilities of Royal Mail’s package handing by boxing up a fresh egg and posting it to me. It arrived (surprisingly) unsmashed and was put to good use in a cake.
I tried it once but I went from making no money to an absolute ton almost overnight and so they blacklisted me, still no idea how that happened to this day.
Good job on the adsense
Ryan: I will send you spam
nAl: It embiggened off
Guy: Never! It was early on Saturday Morning when that was posted. Even before Soccer AM! I was living a Hugh Hefner like experience as I was in my dressing gown!
Debbie: Have you tried e-mailing them? I get scared about getting blacklisted (I made $5 on Saturday, much more than my usual $0.50-$2, I was crapping myself)
nothing very strange. A boyfriend used to send me a little cakes/buns to uni which he had made-they were all wrapped up in one of those mini cereal boxes. It was nice.
Sorry I meant my boyfriend then not a. That makes it sound like I have or have had many, which I haven’t! Sorry Ryan!
I am so jealous. I want 60 pounds.. how the hell do you do the pound symbol?! ¢.. hmm ¶ πøˆ¨¥†®´∑œåß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æΩ÷≈≥≤µç˜√∫√¡™£¢ THERE IT IS… £60. I want £60…
Which is what.. like a million Australian dollars? You suck. I think I’m on like $6…
I’ll still try, I’m a bit unsure what to draw!
Paddy: Haha, I saw your comment in the email and I thought “You’ve broken my blog”. It’s about 150 loser dollars. Oh and please try. We’ve got 5 to be uploaded
Sarah: This blog is going to turn into Jerry Springer? Except with less hookers.
you REALLY need a better camera and had you just woken up!? lol you look stoned.
umm…how about you save up and buy a camera!?
weirdest thing….I got a letter from the domain registry of the US once, about my swpsunlimited.com domain lol! why they didn’t email me I dont know! it was about renewal!
You could purchase the affection of a few fellow boggers? Or you could just drnk 25 beers.
You could run a competition for it and see how many new readers you pick up?
I was dull and stuck my fist one in the company bank account.
@Han sometimes domain companies fromt he US write tot he owners of domains and tell them renewal is coming up. They are hoping you’ll try to renew with them (often at a far more expensive price). I always make sure my customers get email only.
Not sure about the adsense money, but I do think that you need to post a description of how the fantasy 6 nations panned out. I’m dissappointed with second, but I tried to stay as pro-welsh as possible so people like dwayne peel lost me lots of points for me staying faithful… so yeah, big up those who played
£60? I’d say use the Doubling Principle and see what you can make from it. It could be the start of your fortune! You’ve only got to double it 12 times to make a quarter of a million – how easy is that!?
Source something suitable for eBay and away you go. I know people who: sell womens’ triathlon kit (purchased for £5 and sold on eBay from £12 to £17); childrens’ clothes (bought in multi packs from Lidl and then sold seperately); autographed photos (it seems people are willing to buy reproductions of same + you always retain the photo) and … well quite a few other things.
Sorry to be so boring, yawn …
Well done, anyway.
Mike.
I would help, but I don’t know how much that is in American $$$. Oh, those are dollar signs. LOL
I think you should invest it in more brewing equipment. I’m glad you’re plodding along, I haven’t swung by for a week or so, so I’ve just been catching up.
I just started with Adsense and had earnings of one (US) cent from July, but now I’m already up to seven cents and – if you follow the luar cycle – the month is still in it’s first quarter!….. The wierdest thing I ever got in the mail was a chain letter from some officious-looking snail spammer saying I owed money(and please send it at once) to something called an IRS…. Not sure, but I think it was an early version of the Nigerian “You’ve Won the Gazillion Dollar Lottery!” scam….