How I got a share portfolio with 1 million shares, in 6 months by chosing not to do something ...

Have you ever added up how much you spend on cigarettes in a month? At the current time it costs $ 59+ for a packet of cigarettes, I smoke a pack a day that added up to around $1,800 going up in smoke literally. As a pensioner I simply could not afford it when the cost of smoking reached that level, and I've been trying to quit for the last three years.

I spent a small fortune on nicotine patches and nicotine gum trying to quit and it was a waste of money, because they didn't work for me. Then I discovered electronic cigarettes. It cost me $20 for the battery, $15 for the specialist battery charger and $10 for a box of five cartomizers to attach to it, at first I 'smoked' all five in one day and got two batteries and 10 packets of cartomisers, plus shipping of course another $35, so the total cost at the end of the week was $105 or the cost of two packets of cigarettes, and at the end of the first fortnight I spent $190 instead of 1,500. now I make a box of five cartomizers last two days, because I don't have the urge to smoke as often as I previously did, so instead of spending 190 per week I spend around $270 every fortnight instead of $1,800 every month.

I decided to 'celebrate' having money to spend on something other than cigarettes. I checked out the stock market - and brought $500 worth of shares instead of cigarettes, I put another $250 into my saving account, paid $250 off my credit card bill, (which I intend to pay off completely before year's end) and went shopping on E-Bay for a change and brought something expensive on Ebay. A piece of my favorite 'Vintage' artist's work - Picasso of course, allegedly the work of art in the photograph is his work. Personally I couldn't care less if it was a fake Picasso - I brought it because I like it.

I found it because I wanted to buy a new Picasso lithograph for my small art-collection and looked up Picasso on E-Bay and found something better than a fake lithograph. This is how I celebrate NOT buying any cigarettes for a week. I calculate how much money I saved and factor in how much I spent on nicotine replacements - then I look for Picasso and Dali art on some auction site and see if there's some piece I can bid on and win for less than the maximum bid I placed on it. Over the last 3 years I have acquired six lithographs by Picasso and Dali 'celebrating' not buying cigarettes by buying a piece of art to start building an at collection instead

I also brought art supplies for the first time in 10 years. As a teenager I used to be artistic creature - but considered it too expensive a hobby to keep it up and had a choice - my artistic hobby or my pet cats (2) - the cats won. Now something vastly more expensive I have decided to quit instead - Smoking cigarettes, and take up being artistic again and buying more art to create a much bigger art collection instead.

Now that I have given up buying traditional cigerattes, I have 6 different goals, to use the money I save by not buying tradtional cigerettes any more, to try and achieve before the end of the year.

Goal number #1: to create a stock portfolio with at least 1 million shares purchased - every year - from this year onward - instead of buying tradtional cigarettes. (This will be acheived as of the 10th of August an order for more shares has been placed.)

It's been 3 months since I found a successful new nicotine replacement that costs less than the nicotine patches and gum, and switched to that. How many shares do I have already, you may ask? Well I invest in two forms of shares - the dividend kind and the 'penny-stocks' kind. I have 500,000 shares of the Penny stock variety already & just as many on order. I chose the company for the name of the company 'Red Sky energy' - and couldn't care less how much the shares cost - so long as they were a dollar or less. They were a LOT less than a dollar. They were .001 cents a share... I'm feeling sooo energized.

I also now have 25,000 shares in other companies ranging from 'penny-stock' companies with shares a dollar or less - up to more expensive kind known as 'blue-chip' shares - the kind going for close to $100 a share. This is spread across 20 companies. I will hit my goal of 1 million shares - before the end of the month. I decided what the hell - to make my goal as an 'investor' to acquire one million shares in Red Sky Energy.

I did my calculations - if these shares go up in value to a mere $1 a share - 1,000,000 shares would be worth $10,000 dollars - or close to the equivalent of the amount of money that would have gone up in smoke - literally if I was still buying cigarettes for six months. Which I am not doing any more. If I pick some other stock - like the energy company - with shares between the.001 to 00.5 level - to invest in each year for the sheer hell of achieving the 'million-shares acquired' goal each year - and they go up to a mere $1 in value - in the long term, they will be worth $10,000 instead of small change.

Goal number #2 to invest a minimum of at least $500 in shares each month instead of spending it on cigarettes.

Goal number #3 to invest a minimum $500 a month in my home-loan savings account and buy some real-estate either land to build a future home on in the future - or a 'vintage-house/apartment in need of TLC and a renovation going cheap, before the end of the year. Possibly something like this one: https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-kimba-133940510

Goal number 4 - to acquire 100 pieces of art - minimum each for three different art collections - to create my own digital art gallery first. Then in the future when I can hopefully afford it, to create my own small Art Gallery/Musuem/public library/cafe somewhere rural when I buy a vintage style property going cheap and worth renovating to modernise it - hopefully somewhere that setting up a small art gallery/Museum/library/cafe would be worth it and create a future modern art competion with a prize worth at least 1000 each year there after to help advertise the existence of the Gallery/Musuem. And also to create a picture book - How to build an art-collection worth thousands, in 1 year on the internet.

Collection number one - my alleged original Vintage art by Vintage artists collection. I currently have 45 works ranging from lithographs to alleged original art by 6 different vintage artists.. I also have another 50 pieces as a bulk lot - water-color paintings allegedly by Picasso on lay-by just another $250 to pay off and they're all mine for the collection.

I intend to come up with a list of 8 such artists - to personally acquire 10 pieces of work minimum. Authentic authorized 'signed' lithographs are what I will be looking for but if I come across alleged original art in an auction that equals a piece of art I personally find appealing for less than $1000 I will at the very least bid on it and if I win - that's a new piece for my collection. You can see the current works I already have on face book in the album titled Vintage art by vintage artists. https://www.facebook.com/red.skye.186/media_set?set=a.262555814949338&type=3

This collection currently has alleged 'original' art-work by artists such as Picasso, Dali, Van Gogh, Miro & Kandiniski - I need to find 3 other equally vintage artists to add to my list. I intend to make one an Australian Artist, possibly an aborigine artist because I do like aboriginal art. Then again I would not mind adding Norman Lindsay or Pro Hart to the list. I also intend to find a female artist to look for art I personally like to add to the list of vintage artists to look for work to add to my collection. I will be adding 20 randomally acquired works of alledged original vintage art by random vintage artists (hopefully the well known kind) to the collection to bring the total up to 10.

If you'd like to nominate an artist you think is comparable to the ones listed, please go ahead and do so. Do it on my facebook page under the post heading vintage artist worth investing in, with a photographic example or two of their work, to explain why you think so, in your post. https://www.facebook.com/red.skye.186

Collection number 2 - the ACEO art collection. I would like this collection to have 10 different works by ten artists - minimum to be collected by the end of the year.. but if I get another 50 random fine ACEO art works by a random mulitude of artist to complete the collection - that's fine too.

I currently have around 40 works in my collection - by artists such as Marci D known as Bipolar art on Ebay, 10 +, Anna Hoff 5, Seina Mayfair 12, Brut Art, 5, Harry Hooper, 6... and other random artists - I am thinking of adding space art by Newton -I love what I've seen of his work.

Collection #3 - 100 works of Modern art by randomally chosen artists, 10 artists to be selected. So far I have found two I seriously consider worth it. Vlad Pronkin - I have collected 20 + plus works by him so far. I added Aboriginal Artist Marlene PLUNKETT BOANDIK NATION to the list - I have five works by her so far.. I have another 4 peices by another female Aboriginal artist from Yulara and have my eye on another peice of her work if it isn't sold by the end of the month I will buy it and make it five peices of her work in my collection.

Next I decided to add - Belle T. Broskie to the list to acquire 10 works from her. Half this collection will be randomally acquired art - acquired on E-Bay by modern artists bidding on it randomally just because its sitting at a low bid amount, and no one seems to be bidding, to encourage the artist because I find it appealling enough to place a bid and I randomally win a fine peice of art doing it, & or Aboriginal art I do it with. I already have 20 such fine works large scale over a meter in size collected randomally over the the years.

I intend to try to acquire the right kind of art to set up a small Art rental company to help raise more funds to put toward my goal of setting up a future art gallery/muesuem renting the art for $25 per week plus insurence.

Goal number #5

To become a semi-profesional artist/photographer and make enough money to generate a living wage better than the pension, via selling art work I create, and photographs I take via the internet and hold an exhibition randomally.

I currently have work for sale - on two via venues E-Bay, and Bluethumb Art Gallery.

EBAY - Art work

https://www.ebay.com.au/usr/renem-6045?_trksid=p2047675.l255

Blue Thumb Art Work

https://bluethumb.com.au/jenni-pedron

Photographs

https://redskye-at-art-4-art-sake.picfair.com/

I currently buy art supplies every month and get randomally artistic when I get inspired by art or photography I see on the internet such as on Face-book and available for sale on E-Bay and there is a lot of art and random photography from around the world to be seen and inspired.

I will be practicing to try and regain my former artistic skills and 'Artistic' photography skills. I will also be buying second hand digital cameras to test out and practicing photography and testing camera's until I find a decent digital camera. I am looking for digital camera that is comparable to my old former expensive film camera that produces something good enough to sell photographs via the internet.

Goal number #6 - to acquire enough books to open a small rural library.

This I am working on through E-bay & second hand charity stores, I set aside 100 each month with the goal of buyin a minimum of 50 second books each month in a different genre each week - I already acquired 150 books to kick start the collection 50 romance, 50 westerns, 20 sci-fi, 10 fantasy,30 random genre books - like a modern day Sherlock Holmes book and a collection of old Tintin books. I also look for electronic books and digital comics and magazines to collect to build up an archive of such things. I want my library to have an electronic book collection for the modern day bookworm who reads E-book s on a kindle pad or Ipad.

I will of course be looking for people who have old collections of books and magazines, and children's illustrated books, like Tintin are selling them for between 1 to 2 dollars each when you factor in the postage. Not to mention people who want to donate their old book & magazine collections to a help create a future rural library. You can also donate electronic/digital texts to the future electronic text archive by scanning an old magazine - like Readers digest, or old woman's day, or old Nationa geographic, or comics,like Judge Dreed and Batman, you have cover to cover, page by page and saving them all in one directory, and upload them to me - via the internet to be turned into a future digital-text future library patrons can read in the cafe style Library on a digital tablet that will be provided to them to use while they have they have their snack and coffee, well either that or at a desk with a desktop computer with a big-screen.

Quiting smoking traditional cigerettes has given me a whole new set of priorities I didn't have before and was the best decision I've made in years. For the first time in my life - I have 'assets' worth more than small change, such as an art collection currently worth at least $10,000, a jewellery collection worth $10,000 (collected over 5 years), an antiques collection of all manner of things (mostly Middle-Eastern antiques) worth around $5,500 , a caravan I brought when I temporarilly quit smoking long enough to save up and buy it 2 years ago worth around $12,500 and a share portfolio, and savings almost good enough to reach my goal of a 20% deposit on a future home loan.

There are so many things vastly more worth investing in than wasting money that literally goes up in smoke by smoking way too expensive cigerettes.

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