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What’s the point of this blog?
When Mrs. G and I first began this blog over four years ago, it was a clear-cut personal finance blog. Mrs. G and I got our financial act together rather late in life (mid-40s), and we thought our quest for financial independence was an interesting story.
But since that fateful day in August of 2015 when we clicked the publish button of our first post, things have changed.
For starters, we’re bored. Personal finance just doesn’t capture our imagination like it once did. Write a bunch of posts imploring people to spend less than they earn and invest the difference in VTSAX and eventually the thought of writing another one is enough to induce the gag reflex.
And then there’s the impact angle. What value are we bringing to the personal-finance community? Are we saying anything that hasn’t already been said? Is our “story” in any way compelling?
The sad truth of the matter is that we’re not bringing any special value to the personal-finance community and our story is far from compelling. Any well-manicured ape can retire “early” when he or she lives in a low-cost state and his or her pension covers half of his or her living expenses.
So where do we go from here?
The blog isn’t going away. I need several outlets for my creative energies and this blog will be one of those outlets. But rather than bore you (and myself) with a lot of inane finance posts this year, I’m going to bore you with a lot of welding posts.
Check out the picture below. It’s a scrap-metal bison created by John Lopez. The man’s a freakin’ genius. And I want to create my version of a scrap-metal bison for Groovy Ranch.
My reason is simple. Mrs. Groovy loves Montana and I want to bring Montana to North Carolina for her. So I’m going to weld a scrap-metal bison and I’m going to build a mountain vista for its backdrop. This way, by the end of 2020, Mrs. Groovy and I can sit on our screened-in porch, peer out at the bison and mountains on the horizon while we’re slowly sipping our coffees, and imagine that we’ve been magically transported to the Flathead Valley.
Final Thoughts
Okay, groovy freedomist, here’s the 2020 Statement of Purpose for this blog.
- Write an occasional inane personal finance post.
- Write an occasional inane post that is unrelated to personal finance and will surely leave a number of my SJW friends reeling with the vapors.
- Chronicle the progress of my scrap-metal bison—which is tentatively named Becky Sue—on a weekly basis. And on that note, here’s a picture of the rolling platform I built for the Becky Sue build. The next step is to weld the scaffolding/skeleton for Becky Sue and attach it to this platform. Stay tuned, my friends. 2020 should be a very interesting year.
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