Made My First Bids On Auction For DYWTAMP

Today is a great day. :) I finally found two items on one local auction site that I felt comfortable enough to make a bid. It is few hours till the end of auction and I will see if I will actually win the auctions. But if I do win them, it will be the first time in DYWTAMP that I will use some other strategy beside looking for lost money. I feel this is important milestone in DYWTAMP development.

Stake: 61.68 HRK

End of September Results

September ended as second worst month regarding found money for DYWTAM Project. Here is a list of months with amounts of found money:

March 2009: 3.97 HRK
April 2009: 2.61 HRK
May 2009: 7.25 HRK
June 2009: 23.00 HRK
July 2009: 5.85 HRK
August 2009: 5.80 HRK
September 2009: 3.40 HRK

This list contains only found Croatian currency. If I add all funds added to DYWTAMP then the list is somewhat different...

March 2009: 3.97 HRK
April 2009: 2.61 HRK
May 2009: 7.25 HRK
June 2009: 23.00 HRK
July 2009: 5.85 HRK
August 2009: 15.30 HRK
September 2009: 3.40 HRK

August was a much better month comparing only to found Croatian currency, because in that month I exchanged euro currency I previously found.

Hope that October will be good month regarding DYWTAMP stake money.

Stake: 61.58 HRK

Rules

Since I don't follow the exact Rules as laid out in the DYWTAM Report, I think it is interesting to post here the Rules I'm following.

Rule 1. You must find the first coin. You must not use your own money.
Rule 2. You must use only the stake money during the current doubling attempt.
Rule 3. During the first fifteen steps you must use the actual coins and notes gained in the preceding step.
Rule 4. If your current step results in more than doubling, then you must carry the surplus onto the next step.
Rule 5. If your current action results in less than doubling, then you may use as much of the original stake and profit to complete this step.
Rule 6. You must keep a diary of events.
Rule 7. Don't worry about how you are going to manage future doublings. Concentrate only on the current doubling.
Rule 8. You're not allowed to spend one cent of the money (apart from as a stake) until you complete all steps. Then it's all yours.
Rule 9. You must not divert money into the system which you would have got anyway had you not been doing the system.
Rule 10. You must use only the stake money, and not 'stolen' or 'hidden' resources.
Rule 11. If you 'fail' on a step, you must drop down the 'snake' until you arrive at the step represented by your remaining money - and start again from that step.
Rule 12. You are allowed to add your labor.
Rule 13. Use the stake money to create a value which you can sell for more.

Basically, they are very similar to original Rules, and majority of Rules are actually the same as original Rules. When I started DYWTAM Project I tweak only two Rules - Rule #1 and Rule #4. In my own Rule #1 I allowed to find any amount of money not just the smallest amount. And in my own Rule #4 I made it obligatory to carry over any surplus to next Step.

Since I started this Project in March 2009, I didn't brake any rule. And that is very important to me, to stick to the Rules as I laid them to me at the beginning of the Project.

September finds

September was not that great regarding finding money for DYWTAMP stake. Till now I found 2.90 HRK in September. That makes September second worst month since I started DYWTAMP. The worse was only April with only 2.61 HRK found. I still didn't start any other strategy for DYWTAMP. I look at online auctions but couldn't find anything that I could resell for profit. Will keep on looking.

Stake: 60.88 HRK

September is here

Nothing much to report. Made few finds and increased my stake further. I also found one plastic bottle that I can redeem for cash and one used phone card that hopefully could be sold to some collector. I finally started to look at online auctions in order to find something that I could resell for profit. Hope I will find something.

Stake: 58.48 HRK

Step 10 Completed!!!

Today I completed Step 10! I went to my bank and exchanged 1.30 EUR coins that I found in DYWTAM Project and got 9.49 HRK. Additionally, bank clerk round up the amount and pay me 9.50 HRK (she overpaid me for 0.01 HRK). That increased my Stake to 55.23 HRK and it catapulted me to Step 11.

It is 170th day since I started DYWTAM Project, and 58th day of Step 10. I feel it is a great success I manage to reach Step 11 doing nothing else but finding lost money. Maybe in Step 11 I will finally find something else to do with my Stake.

Another victory for me is the fact that I stayed in my doubling project for four and a half month. I manage to stick to this Project, and to follow initially determined rules (which I also find important). This is 4th or 5th doubling project I started and never before I stick to the project or to the Rules so long. I find that pretty amazing and it fills me with happiness.

Stake: 55.23 HRK

Back from vacation

I get back from vacation in August 10th. I had great time there. And it wasn't that bad for DYWTAMP. We manage to find 1.90 HRK and 1.21 EUR. Euro find will be added to the stake once I exchange it for Croatian kunas. It is about 8.50 HRK, so I'm quite happy about that euro find. With euro finds I will be able to complete Step 10 of DYWTAMP. Not bad at all.

Since I get back from vacation I manage to find one coin of 0.10 HRK.

Stake: 43.48 HRK