09/06/2026
Here's a story for you. I once bought a Facebook profile from a girl in Thailand for £400. Her nickname was Choccy and she had luckily registerd the username facebook.com/chocolate for her account (not business, just her personal profile). I got the new account and stupidly changed the location, language, name etc too quickly and the account was banned. Idiot!
Then I waited a couple of years and saw that someone else had registered it as their personal profile so I offered them £600 and they accepted it. But ouch, I'm £1000 invested now.
I then did nothing, made no changes other than to put my email address in the header and wait. I was hoping Cadburies would offer me £1Million for it and I also planned to wander around Brussels offering it to the chocolate shops for £10,000. But instead I did nothing, and Cadburies never got in touch.
A few years later (2020) a bloke from America emailed me offering £5000 in BTC to buy it. I'd neved owned Bitcoin before. I replied something like "haha it's worth £50k try harder" and he was like "Nope, it's £5k" and I waited a few weeks inbetween every email during the haggle process to try make him cave in. But he wouldn't budget. I dropped to £30k, then £25k, then £10k, and he just stuck to £5k. So I sold it for £5k in Bitcoin. You can see the page now and he hasn't changed it in the 6 years since he bought it from me. No doubt he's waiting for Cadburies to buy it from him. Facebook.com/chocolate
Back then 1 Bitcoin was worth $10,000 and had been flat-lined for the previous 3 years but when I got my £5k BTC it suddenly started rocketing. I'm dragging this story out too long aren't I? So my BTC went up to probably double and then my friend Joe sent me a message with some sketchy instructions to buy this hyped up brand new Crypto called Safemoon. I'm easily led and have problems with impulsive actions so I converted my BTC into Safemoon which then quadrupled. It slumped a bit and I sold it when it was worth about £10k. So my £1k was then up to £10k. Nice!
Then I got completely swept away in the hype of the Gamestop Short Squeeze and thought I was going to get generational wealth so I put all my Crypto into that. It was very volatile, it went up, down and all over the place and then I eventually came to my sense to see that I'd missed the boat and luckily managed to sell up and break even there.
That was about 5 years ago and after all that drama I realised I was not of the right mindset to be messing about with Crypto or stocks and shares so I moved everything into my very sensible low risk pension pot when has been growing steadily and safely every since. When the piano shop has a good month I put some money straight into the pension. It goes into the very boring Vanguard 20255 Retirement ETF which is on an upward trend for now and helps me focus on being sensible and safe with my future income needs.
So my £1k turned into £10k which is now safely in my pension which has grown 8% per year. Nice!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is your exciting story for today. Overly long? Over-sharing? Probably but I was in that sort of mood today.
Have a nice Tuesday, everyone.
