Top Ten Reasons We Decided To Work For Free (i.e. create a blog)
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1.) The Boy (aka, David) has never been super bright. I don’t mean that in a bad way – not this time. He’s just very simple; he’s not real big on “thinking”. So he decided, without “thinking”, that working for free was a great thing to do.
2.) I am related to The Boy. So, therefore, I’m not completely bright myself. I try to “think”, but it just seems so difficult that I usually give up pretty quickly. Therefore, I agreed that working for free was a great idea.
3.) Blogs are a huge status symbol nowadays. It is impossible to be a true, card-carrying, bona fide geeky loser type if you don’t at least have a blog. The Boy and I have always looked like geeky loser types, so we decided to go ahead and take that first step toward becoming genuine.
4.) Standard, grocery store-quality milk crystallizes at 41 degrees fahrenheit. This creates flakes around the perimeter of the pouring apparatus. The Boy and I always hated these flakes growing up – therefore we decided to eradicate all milk flakes by creating a blog.
5.) Clearly I have run out of actual, useful reasons for working for free (as #4 indicates), so all the more reason to create a blog so that I can figure out reasons along the way.
6.) There are 24 hours in each day. 23 of those are used for sleeping, eating, playing and working (for money) – so we decided that the 24th should probably be used to work for free. It just makes sense, really.
7.) I love wine. I think we all know what sort of nonsense decisions that usually leads to!
8.) The French have been working for free for at least a few centuries. It just seems wrong to let them get too far ahead of the rest of the world in this endeavor. The Boy and I will not let this happen!
9.) We don’t really have anything that could be compared to “social lives”, so we choose to work for free. It helps ease the pain.
10.) And finally. Each day millions of people consume products that are neither tasty, nor healthy. The Boy and I, in some small way, would like to help reverse this trend. Cooking is fun, relaxing, healthy and necessary. If even just a few people can sort through my erudition, and The Boy’s rambling, to uncover some useful pointers and tips for creating healthy, tasty food – then it is well worth working for free.
When last we left you, I teased a new feature/series/focus for the website related to a new cookery book of almost mythic girth. A thousand-page testament to food on paper that we would not only use in exercise by simply picking up, but also something that we would be cooking from. And I’m here to tell you a little bit more about that.
Feb 5, 06:17 PM
I like wine as well!! If it ever lead me to the decision to work for free though, I’d have to, as Rachael says, ‘question my relationship with it’.