Me, My Shares Portfolio and OCD Back Together Again at Long Last
So way back in 2007 I started making more money that I needed and was starting to accumulate a little bit. It had taken me about a decade to get to that point and it felt pretty good. So I thought, what can I do with it? Well after a bit of thinking I got to the idea of purchasing some gold. And so I did, apparently in a safe in Switzerland, but I will have to take their word for that as I never actually saw it. A couple of years passed by and it went up and I made a reasonable amount of money but it was a little bit slow going. I loved the free money and how clever it made me feel but I thought, hey I'm a clever chap, I must be able to do more than this. And so I sold it and bought some Shell shares. I remember it distinctly as I used to look at them every day and they would sit around £4.30 day in day out. After about a month of that, I thought, that's even more boring than the gold and I haven't made any money. I thought there must be better opportunities out there. And ...