Road to MinnowHood

I guess the low price of Steem has many people trying to increase their holdings of the token with the expectation that it will make a come back. I for my part actually want to get to minnow with these low prices, which is embarrassingly a place I have already been twice but have cashed out for several reasons, cash emergency, getting fed up with Steemit (yes, it happens) and perhaps other reasons.

Of course the easiest way to get there is just to buy the Steem and get it over with, easier said than done for me, I have no credit card sometimes I am cash strapped and I really see no way of getting the scant money I could use for buying into an exchange so that option unfortunately is not for me.

The next best thing is to just keep on writing and wait to get there organically, a safe sure way to get there. But this will take me until at least July to get there because I think my average take per post is about 0.6 Steem.

There are other options, for example my SteemMonster cards, when this started I did buy about 30 Steem worth of cards, but I got tired of this game and sold most of my cards, and I nearly doubled what I had paid. Unfortunately the liquid Steem I got I played on SteemSlotGames, I even got to parlay it into over 300 Steem, I had more liquid Steem than Powered up Steem, but I am a gambling addict so eventually I lost all I had won plus what I got from the cards plus some extra Steem.

So this time I have about $15.00 worth of cards, which I think is over 100 Steem, so selling them I could get to minnow by year's end. But even though I know I won;t get far on SteemMonsters without investing I do sometimes like to play it, so for now that is one option I won't take.

What other options do I have? Of course the penniless option, faucets and sites like that this is a very slow way to earn but since I am not that far off from my goal every little bit helps, right now on Coinpot I have enough for about 4 Steem and on Earncrypto I can get about 1 Steem a day, yes it takes hours to do this but time is the one thing I have a lot of, so using these two options I think I can reduce the time to get to minnow by more than half, so I guess I will be there in March. By the way right now I have about 373 Steem powered up and some 7 liquid Steem so I am short of 120 Steem, I do have 12 Steem on EarnCrypto, so my deficit is around 100 Steem.

I could also sell some Tribe Tokens but I don't really want to do that either, anyway getting to minnow is really just an achievement my vote will still be worth close to nothing so it is not any big deal. why do I need a slide rule to give a percentage of my vote when it is only worth $0.003? In fact when I do vote, which I don't do much of, I have to vote for a post that is already at least at $0.03 so my vote won't become dust.

I know you might laugh at this but setting goals like that helps me pass the time away and entertain myself, so I really think I could do worse things than this.