… And Thanks for All the Fish

[GLSmyth]

Those who are familiar with the works of Douglas Adams will recognize this as a swan song, and that would be correct.  I have sold DRiPInvesting.org and am passing it along to capable hands.

The website was born almost 20 years ago when The Motley Fool decided to make people pay to access their message boards (an unfortunate decision, that was later reversed).  I wrote message boards so that people could freely help other people, and over time expanded it to include information about dividend reinvestment plans and dividend investing. 

About two years ago, I started a blog to offer what information I could in a fashion that could be easily retrieved.  For the most part, I have said in those articles pretty much everything I needed to say about the subject, so passing the baton on to someone else may result in new and more informative information.

By no longer maintaining the website, I can spend more time with photography, music composition, travel, and attempting to up my chess game.  It's funny, after retiring, I ended up with less time than more, as there is so much I want to do.

The take-away from all of this is that financially I can do these things.  During my working life, I made a moderate income, but invested wisely and lived beneath my means.  Dividend investing was a huge part of my investing strategy.  If one reads my articles on dividend investing and follows the solid path forward, they should do just fine.

So thanks for letting me serve you over the past couple of decades, it has been one of the joys in my life.

Cheers –

george

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All the best in your “second” retirement

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[George L Smyth]

Thanks, I'm continuing to enjoy everything that comes my way.

Cheers

george

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[Stuart MacDonald]

George,

Thanks for being The Guy for so long. You and DIRC were instrumental in my starting on the Dividend Investing path. That's a gift that gives forever.

I hope you enjoy your retirement, and may many good things come your way, preferably about once a quarter.

Did you post this to your blog? It doesn't show up now, and I'm curious if the new owners removed it.

Thanks,

...Stu

[George L Smyth]

Stuart -

Thanks for the kind words.  I did not post it to the blog, I just sent it out to the people I had email addresses for.  I wanted them to be able to do whatever they were going to do with the website, which unfortunately appears to be nothing, but like selling a house, you cannot complain about what the new owners do or do not do.

It was fun working with the website over the past couple of decades, and I am sure that I learned more from everyone than anyone learned from me.  I appreciate the note, and yes, in retirement I am considerably busier than ever with my music, photography, and chess.

Cheers -

george

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[Bernie Zeesman]

Congratulations!! And well deserved!

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[Stuart MacDonald]

One more question, George: is it at all possible for you to make the databases of the old boards available to the public? Perhaps by donating to archive.org?

It's a shame to lose that historical record forever, and, some of the advice and knowledge is still pertinent.

[George L Smyth]

Stuart -

I'll have to think about that.  I'd need to remove the fields with name and contact information, and remove the deleted messages (which were never deleted, just removed from access).  They were available after I moved things to Google Groups and it was very rare to see anyone accessing them at that time.  On the other hand, it might be a useful resource for people at some point down the road.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers -

george

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[Jon G]

Hi George, A huge thank you from me - I am midway through living moderately and investing well, and am working towards the same outcome you have now in retirement. I'll probably play videogames and build models instead of chess & Photography. I think it'll work out, but I wouldn't be this far along without dripinvesting.org and the help I got from you and so many others. Thank you!

Sincerely,

-Jon (Jonny G from the old boards)

[George L Smyth]

Jon -

Thanks for the kind words.  I have also started writing music again, so that is also taking an inordinate amount of my time.  The funny thing about retirement is that there are still only 24 hours in a day. (g)

Cheers -

george

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