I just wanted to write a short post about yesterday’s post. When I welcomed The Frugal Girl’s readers, I certainly didn’t mean to leave anyone out! So I hope it didn’t come across that way. It was just that I had gotten so many in such a short time from Kristen that I felt a particular urge to acknowledge you all were out there. I get a lot of new readers all the time from Katy at The Non-Consumer Advocate, and Jonathan at Wasted Food sent me a lot of readers lately, and lots of other blogs as well. And some people come from google and blogger referrals. So I want to give a great big welcome to all of you, however you got here and however long you’ve been around.
The only place that doesn’t seem to bring me many readers is my regular life. I could take that as an insult, but it doesn’t surprise me. In fact, I got a distinctly irritated vibe from a few people when I told them I was writing a blog about joining The Compact. Maybe they think I’ll judge them every time they buy something new. Which is certainly not the case. I’m positive no one in my family reads this, and very few of my good friends. In a way, it’s kind of liberating. One of my friends who has a blog got into a terrible argument with her mother because of something she’d written on her blog. I said to her, “I don’t know which is worse: your mother being insulted by something you wrote on your blog, or my mother being so uninterested she doesn’t even register that I have one, or even what a blog is.“
In fact, I can only think of five people who read my blog that I knew before I started writing this. And four of them make comments sometimes. The other one is too shy- that’s okay! But I’m curious if any of my other friends are out there. Show yourself and make a comment if you are! I would also love to hear from any fellow Compacters. And anyone else who’d care to muse on any of this.
This was supposed to be a short post, but of course almost none of my posts actually turn out that way. I just wanted to make sure all my readers felt welcomed, because this experiment is becoming about much more than just not buying new stuff. It’s really changing how I think about almost everything. Please leave your thoughts and questions in the Comments section.
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