....and my stash of SBD is too little to cash out?
I sold my SBD for Steem and Power Up.
This past week I've been reading some posts about SBD going down, upvote value dropped, volatile market et cetera et cetera. Hmm...Am not bothered at all. Firstly, I didn't invest a single cent into Steemit. Didn't even pay for the juices I had when 
So, this morning 
Upon logging into Steemit, I claimed about 5 SBD. My wallet then had 11 SBD.
Then,
Why Power Up?
To my understanding, the more Steem Power I have, the higher the value of my upvote. You can check the value of your upvote here https://www.steemnow.com/
This is mine. My upvote value at 100% is worth 0.04.
So, if I vote your post, you get 0.04. If you have more Steemians with higher upvote value voting your posts, you get even more. Since we are in a community, by increasing our Steem Power will definitely be more beneficial to everyone. Everyone will get a bigger piece of the pie. And I feel good when I know I contributed a little more to help someone's earning increased by another 0.04 compared to my earlier votes of just 0.01.
The question is, why should anyone with higher voting power upvote my post, when I upvote their post it's only 0.04 cents? I have now 125.265 Steem. 375 more to go to reach Eliza's level. Am gonna work towards it 💪 slowly, but surely so that when if I upvote your posts you will earn more.
One of the benefits of having more Steem Power is able to control the weightage of our votes. Read 
How To Buy Steem?
At my wallet, I go to Market to place an order.
This is the Market, where you buy & sell Steem. In my case, I look at BUY STEEM. Click on the green text Available and immediately all your SBD will be placed in the box TOTAL or you can manually key in the amount of SBD you want to sell.
I placed my order by clicking the button BUY STEEM.
It asked for confirmation with which I used my Active Key.
Waited for a few minutes and once the order was completed, I could see in my wallet the amount deducted from SBD and my Steem showed a value.
How To Power Up
With some Steem on hand, I go to Steem and click Power Up
Click the Power Up Button. A rotating green circle will appear on the bottom left to show it is working.
Once I confirmed it with my Active Key, I could see the value from my Steem became zero & the value of my Steem Power went up.
So that was how I sold Steem and powered up which is the standard method if you want to sell all Steem in one sitting.
How To Buy Steem In Stages?
This afternoon when I was drafting this post, the lowest price asked was 0.763461, I created the first order by manually keying in 1 Steem & 0.754 SBD. Yes, manually key in at both sides. Once the order was placed, I created another order for 1 Steem at 0.74 SBD.
In total, I created 7 orders.
Then I went out for lunch 😄 and didn't come home until after dinner.
It's 11.35pm now. My first order got taken up 6 hours ago! I bought 1 Steem at the price I asked for 0.754SBD.
I will leave the rest of my orders until they get taken up. But if they don't, I'll still have my SBD. It's all 'win' and no loss here in Steemit. Today is a lot of 'wins' for me. I learned a new trick thanks to
My take away from my Steemit experience so far : Don't be greedy and be grateful, for I started with nothing but now I have something.
