I’ve been asked this question a few times already and it seems to me that a lot of people don’t really know why I blog anything or write stuff down so I took a moment to think about this and then decided.. “Well, I’ll blog about why I blog!”.
1. The first and most important reason that I decided to blog is to help people around PEI. There are a number of great bloggers out there such as Peter Rukavina for example, and he’s a great blogger however usually just posts about his day to day occurrences and things of that nature. Very entertaining, but for the most part not very helpful. I wanted to help people, I take great joy in getting messages saying “Thanks to you I got this item for this price and it saved me a bundle.. thanks!”.. I get them all the time. That’s one reason why I blog, there are a number of others.
2. To put into writing something that’s going on which I have an opinion on.. such as the downtown residents post that I made yesterday. I feel the need to voice my opinion sometimes a lot of times and I like to start lively discussions on topics that are on peoples minds. Especially when it comes to local issues and things that are in the news.
3. To help me remember! This is a reason that people likely won’t understand as well as the prior two, but I have a really bad short-term memory and forget things all the time. When I write them down (and use my trusty Google Calendar) – I find that I remember better. Hey, anything helps right?
4. This isn’t a big reason, but I also make a bit of money. Not a lot, but occasionally you’ll see links to different sites around in my posts (some of which you have to ask yourself .. “why did he just write that?”, well.. it’s due to advertising that I’m putting out there and getting paid to do so.. it helps cover the costs of webhosting, etc.
5. To engage in feedback and conversations from others. I’d say this is another big reason for me.. if I’m wondering about something or am looking for information on a topic – I’ll blog about it and a lot of the times a reader will respond with a great idea! This just happened with regards to my UPS post and now I’m going to likely save some money the next time something gets sent UPS.
Those are some of the reasons, but I guess I just like to do it.. it’s nice to know people enjoy reading the posts and get a kick out of other things. I originally had a lot of stock market information and investing information and I’ll still likely post some of that as time goes on, why not eh? It’s my blog.. I can do what I want 
Thanks for reading.
Len