I'm in the crypto world since early 2018, my first months were mostly wasting of time. I was collecting airdrops, using some funny crypto apps to collect more tokens and the funny thing is that I have still most of them because they were scams. But there is a bright side, I meet a few great people and together we were improving our skills and knowledge.
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This way, we were informing each other about good and perspective projects in our opinion, of course, not everyone gives us profits, but I can say most of them. What we were buying? for example IOST, Hot, NPXS (PundiX), CHZ, CRO and many other coins/tokens.
I'm lucky, because I never lost, maybe because I didn't panic? Maybe because of that, I was buying when a token was very cheap? Or maybe I was lucky? Probably a little of everything.
So, I was buying, selling. hodling etc time fly and after spending by myself thousands of hours with crypto I saw the nearly ending of 2022.
My portfolio riched ATH and I said to myself and to my wife, it's time to get some profits and fun for all wasted time.
I'm living in Ireland and to avoid 33% Capital Gains Tax (CGT) to Revenue I could use one of the rules, the annual exemption of €1270. OK, I'm not here to talk about taxes, laws etc but about Christmas ;)
Let's spend some money
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The first Christmas present.
One day my oldest daughter, a student of 5th-year secondary school came downstairs to our living room with her old laptop and she said it's broken. Yep, her laptop was very old. I bought him for her at least 6 years ago, a cheap Toshiba. Time to buy her now, for Christmas and for further education.
I was browsing the internet and on Cyber Monday I bought a Lenovo with a processor Intel Core i3 and a backpack from their website.
After a week I got only a backpack. I sent an email to customer service and after a few days, I got an answer " your order xxx was cancelled due to the product being out of stock" hmm when I was ordering I saw some laptops with a message "10 left" but not this one what I choose. Even on the website is still available for buy!
After another few days of searching, I bought Asus Laptop, almost the same spec as Lenovo but with two differents first one is a bigger screen, and the second the SSD drive twice bigger than Lenovo. Looks like I found a good deal ;)
The oldest child is sorted, now it's time for another.
My youngest kid (plus my wife) will get a new Nintendo Switch OLED, a few games for example Super Mario Party and Paw Patrol plus accessories for it. Lots of fun. Why Nintendo? First of all, the whole family can play together, games are for all ages. Secondly, I have already a new generation Xbox then this choice will give us more ways to play.
I bought many other things, for this two things I spent around 50% of my crypto budget only, and it's not a point to show you all of them, I hope you understand my decision :)
I'm so happy that my passion, my hobby and fun will give a smile to my children faces, and for me and my wife it's a sign it's not only a virtual world with virtual money for "children". This will give me more energy for future investments but what is most important, my wife can see some profits and maybe will be more tolerance for me ;)
PRO TIP - Don't hold too long your crypto, take some profits as long as you can ;)
At the very end, I would like to say thank you to everyone who help me during the last few years reach this point.
To be continued...
