“Your Very First” this week’s topic gives us the chance to relive one of our best memories. It’s certainly a memorable time for me because it was the first time I tasted the fruits of my labour.
There’s just a different feel to spending your own money if I can say it like that but then it’s very different from let’s say spending the money given to you by your guardians.
Maybe this wouldn’t a popular answer or something expected but the first thing I bought with my money isn’t quite physical. The very first thing I bought with my own money was something that in the long run helped me to get more money.
What am I talking about? I guess some of you are wondering what I could have possibly bought that ended up helping me in making more money.
Just as I’ve said quite a few times already in other write ups I’ve made, it wasn’t until a few years ago I discovered the world of crypto. Maybe a year and a half now or a little bit more. This opened new opportunities for me and that was how I spent the few cedis I had.
So when I was finally able to save, I decided to dip my legs into the crypto market. This leads me to what I did what I did with my first money.
Buying bitcoin was the very thing I did with my own money. This is the best memory I have of something I did with my money because like I said, it helped me a lot.
screenshot from my Binance app of the current btc/usdt market.
I bought bitcoin before it’s most recent all time high of about $63K. That said, one fine afternoon just in-front of my house I decided I was going to make my first investment and without much contemplation I decided I was going to buy the mother of all crypto, bitcoin.
I purchased it when the price was at $42K which may not have been a very good idea but I was convinced it was what I wanted to do. At the time, the market was quite stable and most coins were in much better places than they are now. I remember SOL was flying high and FLOW was doing well.
So fast forward when the market stared to rise, I began wondering if it was time to accept the profit I had made and sell. I didn’t and still had faith of more gains. At the time, I was away on “Third Trimester Field Practical Programme, TTFPP**. TTFPP was part of our academic calendar where students had to travel to remote areas to identify challenges the inhabitants face and make recommendations for proper solutions.
Fortunately for me where I was sent wasn’t entirely remotely and so I had a source of electricity and an okay network connection. It helped me keep tabs on my investment.
The price of btc soon hit the 50K mark, 55K and after bouncing back and hitting the 60K mark, btc finally broke the 60K resistance. You should have seen me that day. Man I was excited cos my portfolio was suddenly looking very eloquent.
I held on for a while and when the price hit 62K I sold my asset and I had quite a lot more on my initial investment.
The profit I made helped me repair my laptop that had screen issues for sometime and purchase a few other times like clothes and a phone. This has also helped me because I still use this phone and laptop to help me with hive.
Although my laptop has developed new faults, I’m still glad I used part of that money to repair it.
So here you have it friends, buying bitcoin was the very first I remember doing with my money.
Thank you.