Date: 4-11-2014

Due Date: 4-11-2015

Resolution: Okay so this isn't really an April Fools themed resolution, but I did say a majority of the month would be devoted to foolish goals and not all of them. If my goal was all… I would've made that its own resolution :-)

That said today is payday and it's time to start ordering supplies. Before getting this day job I was living the life of a freelancer. Any spare money went into savings and Amazon purchases were rare.

Now that I have a steady income and a blog that requires me to buy things, I'm beginning to see this as a "you put your chocolate in my peanut butter" type situation and it would be foolish of me not to put these tastes together.

(Yes! I managed to work on the April Fools theme after all!)

To add an ongoing aspect to this challenge I figured I'd add the angle that I'd make all my purchases through one of my favorite podcast's Amazon link. The show is The Complete Guide to Everything, the link gives them a percentage of the money I spend at Amazon.

At the end of the year, I'll try and figure out what this amount ends up being.

Now to bookmark that link so I don't forget and fail this experiment.

Result #101: Last Year… I Successfully Contributed Some Percent Of $3250 To My Favorite Podcast… Simply By Shopping At Amazon…

Update #1: The Conclusion…

Date: 4-11-2015

This year I successfully made all my Amazon purchases through The Complete Guide to Everything's associate link. I'm pretty sure they didn't get the stack of $50s like the photo above but I bet they could build an impressive stack of nickles with whatever percent they earned from my $3250 worth of Amazon purchases from last year.

Tim and Tom, if you read this, thanks for the years of entertainment!

Keep up the good work.