Saturday Savers 2024 Progress Report - Week 37

It's Saturday ! That means it's time for my #SaturdaySavers update 😁

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Here's my table of progress for the week;

Note one change on the table; goals I've hit are now shaded in darker green.

How Did The Week Go ?

Holiday !

I was on holiday last week, but as is usual in life, nothing went quite to plan !

My original vision was to spend daytimes slobbed out around the pool at the hotel, sipping cold drinks and typing up lots of Hive posts on the laptop.

The reality was that a couple of days into the holiday I was totally floored by a massive bout of food poisoning, and lost two days that I don't really remember but which apparently was a good re-creation of that scene from The Exorcist. Then, just when the projectile vomiting and diarrhoea eased off, my wife caught it and I spent the rest of the holiday trying to nurse her through it.

But we're back home now and starting to gradually feel more human again, helped immensely by lots of love from our kitties.

HIVE and HBD Earnings

Despite all that, I did still manage to make a few posts and keep up with curating.

With rewards coming in from the week before, I made 37.964 HP gain, plus 3.061 HBD. I'm behind on my goals with them both, but considering the chaos of the last month or so, I'm surprised I'm not further back than I am !

LEO Concerns

I'm continuing to make decent earnings of LEO, and don't forget it's LPUD tomorrow ! However, I am deeply bearish about the price of LEO. It seems that no matter how great the developments are in the platform, it doesn't seem to positively impact the price. It's dropped from an ATH of around $0.221 to the current price around $0.026, and continues to slide.

I wonder if it's an inflationary devaluation. Does anyone know how the many LEO tokens given as delegation are created ? Is it inflation, or is there a mechanism spending actual HIVE (or some other token) to fund them ? What I do know is that the fiat value of HIVE I've converted to SWAP.HIVE to buy LEO is about twice the current value of my LEO holding.

Is LEO going to be another one of those Tribe tokens that starts off looking great, and then drops to zero ? I really hope not !

If you're not familiar with SaturdaySavers, it's a fabulous initiative run by @shanibeer writing as @sally-saver on the @eddie-earner account, where we all support each other in getting to our savings goals.

If you are one of my friends reading this (or just someone who tripped over one of my posts), I really recommend this as a great community that's well worth joining.

I'm normally very disorganised about saving, and the support of the wonderful people in #SaturdaySavers has been invaluable in keeping me focused. I can honestly say that without it, my HP would probably be half what it is now.

So join ! You don't have to wait until the start of the year. The best time to start saving is ten years ago. The second best time is right now !