One Old Green Bus

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04/07/06

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Categories: Kooky Schemes - What's happening/Being Suggested

Sponsored Posts...

Hello and thanks for clicking on the sponsored posts policy.

I'm not going to lie to you... I am doing these for money. Not for any sort of altruistic purposes, but to earn money.

In essence, our family is hoping to build up cash to help promote and even save towards making our dream come true.

With that in mind, I WILL be visiting each sponsored site... and I will be being as honest as I am allowed... but remember, sometimes I am "editorial directed" to write a certain way or to promote things in various ways... granted, if I am really "turned off" by a site or product, I will not be blogging about it... so at least we can say that you WON'T be seeing posts that are for website, items, products, or the like that I am really opposed to in one way or another.

So with that, please remember Caveat Emptor and I hope you enjoy the blog postings... be they sponsored or not.

Oh, and I WILL try to keep sponsored posts to only Thursdays (for "Helping Hand Thursdays",) but I can't promise one won't slip through on other days.

Thanks again!

I would like to thank the folks above, because through their sponsorship of this post, I am working to make our dream come true!

If you're interested in this blogs policy on sponsored posts, please click here.

Again, thanks to the sponsor above... with help like theirs, this family will make our dream come true!

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Allow me to start with we do not own nor are we selling a bus. Just had to get that out...

This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items and whatnot as London was removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try and appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very young and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

Well, I'm pretty sure you figured it out... we failed... and the youngest has reached an age where she is more cynical than much else about the world which isn't a dreadful thing... but there's a "good news" portion to this... money is better, life has improved, and some people really liked my rambling here... so, I decided to keep things going... Yes, I will "give up" on asking for help on a bus... and have to give up on even trying to get the bus and be far more realistic... but I don't mind (I actually enjoy,) venting, trying my hand at humour, and generally keeping on online presence outside my usual things.

Thanks to those who were/are "Busly Dream" enthusiasts... I suppose that our buses now will be single-deck with the letters "TTC" emblazoned on them... but this blog will live!

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