What did you buy with Adsense money?

anything intersting?

[goodwin]

What did you buy with Adsense money? Who bought a house, a car, a yacht? :)

For now, I've bought a new car, and tons of other gadgets. :)

[naitsirhc26]

My hosting fees AND some much needed extra RAM for my computer. : ) I will also be using some of the money to buy a Wireless Router, as we are going from dial up in the house, to High Speed! : ) (i can hardly contain my excitement for the high speed. yes, we are in the dark ages still, but we live in the mountains, so we can't get cable where we live, etc...also, feel free to PM me if you have a good router suggestion)

For now my Adsense is just "little" extra cash, but hey, I am not complaining!

[Tropical Island]

AdWords to support my tourism business.

Nice symbiotic relationship.

Now if they would just allow me to deposit part or all of my AS income into my AW account I'd be real happy.

Can't understand why this has not happened yet?

[wyweb]

Mine goes in the bank. It's pure profit.

[drall]

To much to list.

[netmeg]

Season tickets to Michigan football (which are roughly equivalent in price to a house, a car or a yacht), car repair and domain names.

[wrgvt]

Vacations to the Caribbean.

[tim222]

100% goes to savings plans, namely an IRA and a 529 college savings plan for my daughter. I already maxed out my IRA so the for the rest of the year it goes into the 529.

[greatstart]

Sadly, I will have to say I will be using the money to go to the dentist to have a few teeth pulled. These days, that's NOT cheap, besides it's painful. :(

[ann]

paid off car
bought home and land in the country, hefty down payment
brand new fridge
brand new glass top range
new furniture
anything that catches my eye
expensive 3 wheel bycycle
etc
hefty savings acct
pay uncle a lot every year

Ann

[dailypress]

advertising my website on other websites
about 0% goes in my pocket.
I think it will be the same for the next 2 years.

[elguapo]

Bought house
A brand new Mercedes Benz
A brand new luxury van
Pays for the private school education of my kids
Building a hefty retirement fund

Adsense has given my family a lifestyle we otherwise would not have afforded.

Now the trick is to have enough money in the bank to make sure we can keep this lifestyle even if Adsense goes away

[Khensu]

A half million dollar house on a mountain top near a lake in AZ.

If your a Californian that would be a two million dollar house in CA.

Next, a new Z4/301 traditional blue.

Money piling up for retirement in an offshore account/trust.

[naitsirhc26]

Along with what you are buying with your Adsense money, please post how long it took you to get to that position. Just as a guage. : )

[Khensu]

11 years Oct 17th (big party in Vegas)

Site is pre Google.

Actually the boys listed me when they were still in the garage. There is probably an SB next to my serps results notes.

I was the first listing on Yahoo in my niche.

[King_Fisher]

In Internet age, your older than dirt!

Congratulations and admiration are due you!

Would love to talk to you about the old days.

Been around on computers since the mid 80s.

But on the e/commerce side since 2001.

Hope you have another Happy and Prosperous 11 years!...KF

[naitsirhc26]

That's awesome Khensu. I take it that it is in a competitive niche?

[Tiger98]

Freedom.

[Roseb44170]

For the past 3 months I have been treating myself by ordering out - like a pizza or something - which I treat as a treat for myself for a job well done!

As far as the rest of it is concerned half I use to pay some bills and the other half I save! (for a rainy day!)

[Genuine1]

7 to 9 year old info sites - never updated in 7 years.

House
Car
Food
Bills
GF
Considerable Savings

[Khensu]

All original art, graphics downloads all created by me. It was paid product for 9 years and I did ok, secondary income low 5 figures.

After the summer of the 9th year I noticed my sales were down, did a search and found my competition had doubled. I was using Adwords to market my CD series. Just as a lark I threw on adblock on my free trial page and made $8 with 1% of my content the first day, now it's all free. The rest is just constant marketing (just broke Alexa 10,000) and the content is evergreen.

2008 returns from the site should be 7 figures (net) or a very close miss.

Projects in production: graphic novel(this fall), niche science magazine(2008)

(oh yeah, I'm 50)

[edited by: Khensu at 3:36 pm (utc) on Sep. 1, 2007]

[wyweb]

You're my hero Khensu... no sarcasm intended whatsoever.

[potentialgeek]

I got my dad a new car.

p/g

[jhood]

It's enabled me to make four-figure donations to the ACLU, Electronic Freedoms Foundation, Investigative Reporters & Editors and other organizations that protect free speech and promote gutsy journalism.