One of the nice things about having my family live in the same place for 150 years is the amount of history. There’s a local Facebook historical account that shares old photos from town going back over a hundred years, and over time, some great ones of my family and our business have shown up.
We’ve been fortunate. Our family made a good living selling plants. People usually think of farmers making a living and building wealth through land, but they don’t often think of tree and plant growers doing the same. The truth is, you can actually make ten times more growing trees and shrubs. Pair that with living in a small town where everything is inexpensive, and it adds up to a good life. The historical society has even found some lost photos we’d never seen. Those pictures have sparked some great conversations and helped me learn more about my family than I ever had before.
A photo of my great-grandfather’s pool from the 1920s showed up recently. Evidently, it was one of the first private in-ground pools in Central Illinois. He built it himself. It was elegant in a simple way, just concrete, filters, and water. More of a fancy pond to a tree farmer. But what really stood out to me was the pattern: build wealth by making money, keeping expenses low, and letting profits compound. My family lived in the same house all their lives. They lived simply, bought land, grew crops, and reinvested. Every year, more land, more trees. They each had a few toys, and even in the 1920s, they bought summer homes. You had to be doing well to buy a summer home back then. It wasn’t like it is today.
Today a home is 6 to 8 times annual income. Back in the 20s it was 2 X 3. My family bought beach land in Naples Florida in the 20s through the 50s. Officially they had more wealth than most but what they really had was lost cost than most and a great business growing things people wanted. They also didn’t invest in the stock market, they only bought land because they yield from the land. So when the market crashed they still had land and while I’m sure the demand for things slowed, they didn’t lose their fortunes like many did and the compounding continued.
I now realize that I emulated what my family taught me. I just didn’t realize it until I was older and looked back at their journey and mine. Unironically the paths were the same
Quote of the Day: ““Housing cost as a percentage of income was 12 % from 1900 until the early 1920s, when it increased to 20 % … by the mid‑1980s it reached 30 %.” — J. David Hulchanski
Domain of the Day: SocialRank.com Top name on the board today. Also has juice which is making it even more expensive
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Dynadot
Electricity.io Can’t find a hotter keyword than that. I think it crosses $5K
Vegetarian.io Another Top Shelf .io up for auction. Wow
Childcare.io one more big keyword
Snaggin.com Faster and cooler than snagging
JDOCS.com Closes today. Data and document management are going to be one of the major use cases of AI
SushiCat.com Sounds like a Japanese toy product
Dishes.net Pretty generic but last time I checked everyone has dishes
Namejet
AiCounsel.com Get your AI lawyers here. talked about it on DomainSherpa. We liked it
RiverBlue.com Lovely name. I think it sounds as nice as BlueRiver
RestoredHealth.com Love this for a rehab name
Fatz.com Who you calling fatz? In auction
LocalGuides.com Now up for auction
VailColorado.com Save a hundred K plus by adding Colorado
MRGO.com Short and has go in it. Good enough for me
HomeIntelligence.com Auction ends today. Every home will eventually be a “smart home” So many gadgets now and cheap
InfoChain.com Goes to auction today
MyVoip.com Up for auction tomorrow. With Internet becoming more stable I see a high percentage of all business phones being VOIP
StormBlade.com Sounds like a snow plow
Atom – Active Auctions
SN7.com Curious to see how this does as a non expiring auction. Expiring LLN crush
Storeg.com Nice brandable for “Storage” company
NOCP.com Solid letters here
TQIL.com Total Quantum Intelligence Laboratory. BIN at $399
CommonLine.com Like this as a brand
PCGD.com Great letters. Bidding is at $100
DXDM.com Didn’t sell. BIN now $825
TPPO.com Same thing. BIN is $988
CuteBoy.com A little creepy but I can see the value
Sedo
XOIM.com I will call this pronounceable like “ZOHIM”. Reserve under $500
GYCN.com No reserve at $20
HTTK.com Also no reserve but at $30
Spotity.com This this actually going to sell for a million?
Nixdy.com Met reserve at $79
Boarded.com Received a nice opening offer to start the auction. No reserve
Organ.com Great name but you have a better chance of selling an organ than this meeting reserve
XCL.ai At $1900 BIN
Catched
Mack.co Here comes the Mack………..dot co
Crypto.law Top name on the Catched board this week.
Cryptocurrency.club Big keyword and yes I’d rather have crypto.club too but that’s not up for auction is it?
TCC.mx Another dot mx getting good bids
Blocks.pe One of the few dot pe which will ever have bids
SGT.es LLL with strong letters always get bids on Catched
230.es. another dot es getting bids
Keenan.xyz Buy it cheap enough and sell it as an email
YouChain.org Blockchain name with a few bids
Godaddy Domains with Bids
ANRX.com RX is the driver here. Prescriptions/doctors
BeMellow.com Cannabis site or just exuding relax
BestForever.com Forever is a long time
CheapestLoan.com Not a huge fan of the term cheap but it exudes best rate here and can brand on it
Christina.net Can sell it for email alone
GreenSkincare.com A bit generic and hard to trademark but maybe can brand around GREEN
GrowToken.com tokeninized carbon credits for growing trees and plants
HappyForever.com Here we are at forever again. If you are going to want one thing forever, happiness is a good one
HashToken.com Already a token
HealthyEatingTips.com SEO name all the way. Now AIEO as well
IMMT.com Great letter so they are coming for this one
JustPlates.com As oppossed to dishes.net above
MagicScript.com AI script writing
MarylandTreeCare.com Big geo to cover but someone 100% will upgrade to this or go with this name
MegaParty.com Sounds like a yacht is going to be involved
MetaElectric.com Electrice names of any kind are in my scope
OldTurtle.com I 100% would name my alcohol this
Pickk.com K saves you a milly
TheBeeline.com Yeah, love it. Love bee anything
TokenConnect.com Blockchain connect
Wamic.com Like this 5L.com if it stays cheap enough
WishNest.com Like a dream catcher but a nest that catches and gathers your wishes
Godaddy Names with 1 or NO Bids
Other GoDaddy Names With More Than One Bid
333317.com
5446.com
55575.com
59875.com
amlj.com
anrx.com
BeachEstates.com
BeMellow.com
BestForever.com
BeverlyBank.com
cdive.com
CheapestLoan.com
Christina.net
CoastalAtlantic.com
ColoradoNewsDay.com
CompletePrepPer.com
CompleteSoft.com
doafrica.com
EdibleWilds.com
entheology.org
eqsr.com
expasy.com
ezpez.com
FashionForWomen.com
First777.com
freevpnconnection.com
Granth.org
greenforlife.com
GreenSkincare.com
GrowToken.com
HappyForever.com
HashToken.com
HatStores.com
HealthyEatingTips.com
HomeHaircuts.com
htak.com
HungryHero.com
immt.com
infynite.com
isdicrm.com
JustPlates.com
LegendFund.com
LetsGoJapan.com
MagicScript.com
MarylandTreeCare.com
MegaParty.com
MemberCentric.com
MetaElectric.com
MiniSecurity.com
naspay.com
NearSight.com
NoHypeInvesting.com
NurseCoop.com
oldturtle.com
OneCompliance.com
ongoa.com
PacificBuzz.com
pasa-tiempo.com
PasteNote.net
PetUnionTreat.com
pickk.com
PontevedraNaturals.com
postaly.com
qhpi.com
RecOverbar.com
RecoveryTreatmentCenter.com
rpvd.com
rrvm.com
rxprovider.com
salentino.com
SharkBowl.com
SocialRank.com
solareuml1.com
SoRoriTeaSisters.com
SummerGroup.com
t-grips.com
tbfacts.org
tennisinc.com
TheBeeline.com
TokenConnect.com
TokenPower.com
TopnotchRealty.com
TraumaSurgery.com
tridem.com
TwinkleTown.com
UnitedPure.com
wamic.com
WishNest.com
xfiv.com
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