From the beginnings of this blog on November 17th 2004, I openly wrote how much money I made, saved and spent. However I rarely reported what I earned through partnerships or consulting. This means what my actual finances were and the finances listed on this blog were different.
December 2006 was the last month I publicly accounting my income. For all of 2007 I haven’t listed specific income, and I will finally take off all that income on the NevBlog.com sidebar.
The plethora of bloggers openly listing their income generally hide their identity, write under pseudonyms or don’t name the companies they work for.
It’s not exactly hard to find out that I look like this:
…or that I live in Austin, TX. and Houston, TX., or that my phone number is:
…so listing detailed income gets tricky. Let’s say I do some consulting for a company and I openly list how much they’re paying me per month. It’s not fair to them to openly list that information.
One of the interesting things people found about this blog was the fact I so openly listed income. It was also good for me, as I felt self conscious about my finances if they were too low. An open environment definitely helped.
But for now, I’ll stop writing every piece of specific income on this blog.
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Here is the income for 2005 and 2006. And yes…I know I listed “Change Jar” as income when it’s not.
Money Made from January 2005 till Deceber 2005:
Online Biz – Jan. $ 502
Work $ 253
Work $ 281
Ebay Sale $ 100
Change Jar $ 55
Online Biz – Feb. $ 751
Work $ 271
Change Jar $ 30
Rebate $ 30
Work $ 229
Lottery Experiment $ 2
Web Design $ 100
Online Biz – March $ 946
Syntel Dividend $ 270
Ebay Sale $ 218
Ebay Sale $ 340
Water Experiment $ 5
Work $ 246
Work $ 248
Online Biz – April $ 836
Web Design $ 300
Change Jar $ 32
Surveys $ 55
Books $ 165
Selling Notes $ 105
Work $ 297
Online Biz – May $ 1,024
SYNT Dividend $ 21
FO Dividend $ 6
GE Dividend $ 10
Work $ 213
Change Jar $ 17
Work $ 167
Online Biz – June $ 718
FO Dividend $ 11
Work $ 274
Work $ 261
Online Biz – July $ 834
Work $ 304
GE Dividend $ 10
SYNT Dividend $ 11
Change Jar $ 35
Acco Brands $ 183
Work $ 210
Books $ 30
Online Biz – Aug. $ 804
ACCO Dividend $ 7
Work $ 228
Change Jar $ 76
Online Biz – Sept. $ 654
Selling Pixels $ 1,350
FO Dividend $ 11
SYNT Dividend $ 11
GE Dividend $ 9
Online Biz – Oct $ 1,120
Misc. $ 1,000
Birthday $ 200
Online Biz – Nov $ 1,630
Change Jar $ 115
Online Biz – Dec $ 1,801
Total on Dec. 31st 2005
$ 20,021
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Money Made from January 2006 till December 2006:
January 2006
Selling Pixels $ 700
Online Biz – Jan $ 1,131
SYNT Dividend $ 11
FO Dividend $ 11
February 2006
Change Jar $ 85
CraigsList $ 100
Online Biz – Feb $ 2,016
Adsense Experiment $ 138
March 2006
Mobile Marketing $ 158
Other $ 3,000+
Online Biz – Mar $ 1,915
Selling Pixels $ 100
April 2006
First order f/ new biz $ 30
Other $ 350
Selling Pixels $ 50
MobileCampus $ 110
MobileCampus $ 50
Online Biz – Apr $ 1,080
SYNT Dividend $ 11
FO Dividend $ 11
May 2006
SYNT Sale $ 681
ABD Sale $ 175
Other $ 1480
Selling Pixels $ 50
Change Jar $ 55
Online Biz – May $ 1,345
June 2006
FO Dividend $ 11
PGH Dividend $ 12
DYN Sale $ 250
Other $ 30
Online Biz $ 2,505
FacebookProfile $ 28
July 2006
Online Biz $ 1,770
Other $ 300
August 2006
Online Biz $ 1,600
Other $ 300
Change Jar $ 80
September 2006
Online Biz $ 1,700
October 2006
Online Biz $ 5,000+
Other $ 1,000
November 2006
BIDU Sale $ 230
Stock Dividends $ 32
Other $ 500
Adsense $ 120
Online Biz $ 4,000
December 2006
Stock Dividends $ 30
Other $ 500
Online Biz $ 4,500
Total on Dec. 31st 2006
$ 38,341
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