As much as I have enjoyed running my new blog I've decided to revert back to using Blogger and blogging free for a while.
I was starting to find running my new blog a bit too stressful and it sadly evolved into something I realise that I didn't want after all. I shut it down last year.
I ended up stuck in that loop that bloggers often end up in where they are constantly looking at how many views they have and how many affiliate posts can you produce. It seemed that this was the main focus of blogging on all the bloggers groups I followed and quite frankly it all turned into something I didn't actually want.
I've been an on and off blogger for well over a decade, since before my 12 year was even born! Back then blogging was simply a convenient way to keep a journal. It wasn't about getting followers, or earning money. It was how I kept a journal of my adventures living overseas and while pregnant with Missy. It was a way to keep in touch with family back home.
I fell into the consumerism trap of trying to make money from a blog and the longer I did it, the more I hated it. It had destroyed something that I once enjoyed doing. It also goes against my new ethos of trying to live more simply and needing less. I think I've evolved over the years and money just doesn't mean much to me any more. Yes, we need enough to live comfortably but how we define comfortably can vary a lot. I'm slowly turning my back on consumerism so as a result, I need less money to be comfortable. It's liberating.
I will probably copy across some of my favourite posts so that I still have them. Things like the story of how Matt proposed to me I want to keep, for instance. However, I want to leave the 'professional blogger' style posts behind. That isn't me.
