The Blog Finally Pays Off

For the last three years I have never taken any ads or sponsorship for my blog. Yes, there may be one ad at the end of each daily blog that is put on by my blog hosting service, but that is the price I pay for a free service. I have had offers to get paid for my blog, but the pay never seemed to be worth my freedom. I like to write about whatever the hell happens to me each day and if I want to complain about the service I get from some establishment I don’t want to worry if they are an advertiser of mine or not. I certainly don’t endorse anyone for money so if you read a good comment about someplace on this blog you can be assured they did not give me anything to write about them.

But this week I actually made some money because of this blog. Last week I wrote, a little tongue in cheek, that I should open my house for a private dinner for a Duke graduate and their rich parents. My friend and neighbor Mary Eileen read this and asked me if I would cook graduation dinner for her daughter Lily’s DA graduation.

I was happy to do this for her, especially since I only had to go across the street to deliver it.

I am not looking to get back in to catering as a rule. Making dinner for Mary Eileen was fun especially since she gave me carte blanche to make whatever I wanted. I hope that her mother liked the DA Green and White soup and could not tell it had asparagus in it. The bonus for Russ was that I made extra for him to have for dinner.

The second pay off came about because I wrote about a contractor using my water and my annoyance with being surrounded by contractors. I went to the mailbox three days after that blog came out and there was a check for $75 from the offending contractor with a note thanking me for using my water. I could have been bowled over with a feather.   I am fairly certain that if I had not complained in my blog I never would have gotten that check. Not that $75 is much money, but it was just the principle.

So now I am going to put it out in the universe that I would like to write about a trip to Europe. I am talking about a luxury trip, not some busman’s holiday. If someone is looking for a competent blogger to do some honest review of them send me a note. Maybe I also need to review a new car, what else can I write about…? Hmm.