I have said this in the past numerous times - HIVE, for me personally, is a form of Luxury. The reason I say this is because the amount of "money" I earn blogging on hive gives me that extra leeway to afford certain expensive luxurious shit that I would otherwise NEVER spend the money on.
I once told head-clerk (
I believe the exact quote I used was "If you can't have what you want, why have the money at all anyway?"
So, often times in the past, I have dipped into my earnings on HIVE to buy certain stuff which would otherwise be considered "too expensive to waste money on this shit!"
I had bought my "Dolce & Gabbanna The One EDP" with money I cashed out from HIVE and to this day it stays my most favourite fragrance of all time - yes, it is even "slightly" above La Nuit De L'homme!
I had spent quite a considerable amount of money on my new phone last year - that too thanks to the extra leeway hive provided financially. I would have never even considered spending that much money on a phone! Period.
I was pondering for the last couple of weeks whether to get Armaf's new release "Club De Nuit Untold." Well, it's not exactly new - came out last year, I just found out about it recently from a colleague. And from the second I smelt it on my friend I have wanted it. I just wasn't sure whether I would pull the plug and actually spend the money on it.
A couple of days later, when I saw I had 71 HBD collecting dust in my wallet my very own quote came back to me - "If you can't have what you want, why have the money at all anyway?" After that It took me like 5 minutes to convert the HBD to HIVE and then take it to Binance and sell on the p2p market to convert it to my local currency!
And I spent the entire amount later that day - no holding back!
I got the full intact presentation of Armaf Club de Nuit Untold!
I even got my hands on 40 ml of the 2019 batch of La Nuit de L'homme - that shit is expensive but seemed it was my lucky day. Right after I cashed out my HBD and checked how much I would have left after buying the Armaf, a super deal popped up in my local fragrance community on La Nuit de l'homme decant that would fit into my HBD budget perfectly and some more. I tried convincing the seller to sell me the bottle (I really love the bottle), but he wouldn't part with it himself. So I just bought all the decants he was willing to sell - 40 ml.
I will definitely be writing a more in detail review of Armaf Untold after I get a few more wears out of it - but I am loving it so far!
I blogged quite consistently last month and that all added up to 71 HBD liquid (half went into HP). This really incentivizes me to write more every month and whatever HBD I accumulate over the course of a month can go to buying luxury!
Because believe you me, growing a perfume collection is expensive as Fuck!