Great post @lukestokes well done for making all your money back, wish I had that kind of money to invest in, but I am on path with your advice I feel like steemit is a great investment I believe in it and so far I have not powered down at all which I am very tempted to because I am desperate for a new computer as mine gets the blue screen of death, making writing posts for steemit incredibly difficult and time consuming, like my diana post took 8 hours.
But not only that I am also trying to get enough money for tickets to go steemfest as this would most likely be the easiest and closest one for me to get to, but your advice seems to point I am doing the right thing and holding my SP I am planing of spending my SBD on more SP once I have a working computer and possibly a steemfest ticket, thanks alot Luke.