I found some more money

Finding money is fun, especially for amounts larger than a penny. Whenever I find a dime--I've found a couple of them in the last week--I get a little more inspired.

Today, was really a windfall: I found three dollar bills, folded together, on the street. My third fund is suddenly a lot nearer the $4.00 target amound.

The three funds so far:

STREETS ARE PAVED WITH GOLD -- $1.00
SECOND CHANCE -- $2.00
TRIPLE MILLIONAIRE -- $3.37

Another buyout!

A few days ago I found another dime which brought the SECOND CHANCE fund up to $.2.02 so I started a third fund with the two pennies and bought out the SECOND CHANCE coins with two of my own dollars. Since then I've added another dime and a few pennies to the third fund which I now call the TRIPLE MILLIONAIRE fund.

So far:
STREETS ARE PAVED WITH GOLD -- $1.00
SECOND CHANCE -- $2.00
TRIPLE MILLIONAIRE -- $.16

Start with a penny, or start with a dollar.

Some doublers begin their journey to a million with a dollar instead of a penny. This eliminates the first seven steps. Instead, I started the traditional way, with a penny but I planned, at some step in the doubling process, to substitute the coins that I found with my own money. Thereafter, I would not add any more of my own money.

My plan was to use my own money when I reached $1.00 during step eight instead of going from $.64 to $1.28. Then step nine would double $1.00 to $2.00. Starting with a good old U.S. dollar bill seemed like an inspirational way to jump start entrepreneurial activity. I could imagine saying--after I had accumulated the $1,000,000--"I started all of this with only one dollar and if you pick up a dollar in coins off the street, you don't even need a dollar to start."

I expected to have a dollar in coins by the start of the new year 2008...and suddenly I found a dime at the bus stop last night and I have now gone over the dollar amount. Total: $1.01 and it isn't even Christmas yet. I put the $1.00 in coins into a little glass jar (The Streets Are Paved With Gold Fund) so that I could look at them for inspiration. I am now using a dollar of my own money which is in an envelope on my desk.

That leaves one penny extra--so I have started another fund: Start with a penny.