I am not very comfortable talking about the condition of my life before Steemit but here it is. I was sleeping on a bed with springs poking into me, my glasses were broken and falling off my face, I had very few clothes and I was a drunk a couple times per week mainly because of these bad conditions. Drinking is an easy escape for poverty but creates more problems and solves nothing. Today I have been sober almost 8 months, it is easy now because I am living much more comfortably. New bed, many new glasses and some of the greatest vintage clothing in the world.

Not only did I make a lot of money on Steemit, I invested it wisely.

Perhaps I take too seriously the verse in the Bible that says a wise man stores many treasures in his house. But I am a hoarder of fine treasures. I love to preserve vintage books and magazines so that future generations can appreciate them. I have one of the largest e-book and application collections in the world. I probably have many archives backed up that are no longer available on the internet. I collect antiques, precious metals, flying toys, prepping supplies, seeds, teas, medicines and tools for my farm. I have 1,000 varieties of seeds, full grown fruit trees and a small raspberry farm. I was born a collector and probably inspired by my uncle and grandfather who ran gun, archery and camping businesses. I am starting now to collect ancient artifacts and fossils because I have reached the peak of knowledge of lower end antiques.

I sometimes get 80-90% off of what I buy, and sometimes I get things free out of the dumpster at corporate megastores such as Tractor Supply. I have got 5,000 dollars of gas power and electronic utilities out of their dumpster in just 4 or 5 stops. I have also made up to 150,000% profit on antiques I have bought on Ebay. Soon I will show you all my collections.

I can barely even list all the treasures I have bought with my Steem. Here is where my money has been going.

4 i7 laptops
2 dirtbikes
4 chainsaws
Precious metals and jewelry
battery backups, alternate energy devices and a gas generator with stored fuels
3000 mushroom plugs
enough maple syrup supplies to tap 100 trees
massive art supply collection
wood chipper
plastic printer
16 drones
GoPro Hero 5 Black
dozens of RC cars, helicopters, boats and airplanes.
boxes of vitamins
possibly the worlds largest collection of vintage skate shoes
zippos, lighters, matches, and thousands of dollars of wholesale fireworks to celebrate with @Arisa when she arrives in the US
vintage and new gaming systems
bins full of seeds including hemp and cannabis seeds from a dozen countries
a few printers with enough ink and supplies to print 10s of thousands of pages
dozens of great gifts for my friends and family including cannabis for some very ill people
plastic welder
year supply of ferret food and treats
Raspberry Pi gear for my upcoming gardening robotic arm
hundreds of books.. many of which I have donated to the local jail
Domain registrations and cloud services, some of which I will be donating to the EOS team at their request.

Steemit has taught me that my time is valuable.

Steemit is like a huge talent contest, university and game show rolled all into one. It has allowed me to show others some of the skills I have including plastic printing, cooking, gardening and hacking. Where I used to spend my time playing computer games I would not dream of it today. Life is the most exciting game. Making money and building my business are what I enjoy. I love serving others who need help the most which is what I have secretly been doing all this time through freely providing cannabis skin cream for the ultra-sick in my town. I do this at a great risk to my life and at huge financial expense and time requirement.

I have not only received great benefits from this platform but also contributed.

I have registered hundreds of accounts for new users.. giving them away freely.. @Trail, @Steem-Sports, @Illuminated, @bluerthangreen, @the-blockchain, @papa-pepper and family and endless others.

Also referring hundreds of people

I brought @Fyrstikken, @Papa-Pepper, @Paradise-Found, @Ausbitbank @Jdcrunchman and many others to this platform, and with their extended referrals I may be the top referrer on the platform next to @dollarvigilante.

I was the top voter for many of todays most successful authors

Including those people listed above I also supported @canadian-coconut, @ats-david, @sweetsssj and many others with my orca accounts before they were noticed by any of the whales and made it to the top.

The hoard of accounts my friends and I registered are now being used 100% to upvote newbies and underpaid authors. No requirement to join my discord at http://Steem.in, you can just let me know the post or author in a memo if you wish.

I am one of the most diversified original content creators.

I have posted everything from plastic printing and upcycling to natural medicines and health, cooking, aerial photography, extreme sports, pyrotechnics, the history of altcoins and prophecy of the future. I have even interviewed Vitalik Buterin!

https://steemit.com/vitalik/@noganoo/an-interview-with-vitalik-buterin-founder-of-ethereum-exclusively-on-steemit-6-21-2017

I have also been referring dozens of users per day to the Steemit Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/steemit
from my other Ethereum group with over 60,000 users.

I have posted something that everyone can enjoy and I have so much more to share that you would not believe it. Including an upcoming post apocalypse sci-fi game for the blockchain. @Steemrunner

I cannot even describe how thankful I am to all of you. To everyone who ever supported me. Thank you mainly to @Ned, @Dan (Bytemaster) and @Stan (Godfather of Bitshares) for creating the most wonderful platform that the world has ever seen.