Let me clarify: I don't want a lifetime subscription. I currently subscribe monthly. I just started doing that last year. Just last year, people! I've been around here for a bit. Let me tell you why I don't want a lifetime subscription and why it took me so long to give dkos any money at all.
When I first started hanging out here in 2003, we didn't have a lot of money. In fact we didn't have much at all. Brand new house payment. Young kid. Me very part-time employed. I was saved by the fact that, back then, you couldn't subscribe. It was just Markos yelling and a bunch of people saying, "Hell, yeah!!"
Then things changed. Let's fold time and space to DK4. All of a sudden, here I am; Our family's fortunes have changed dramatically. I can afford to subscribe. So I go and look. Do I want to plunk down $100 all in one shot? Man, I owe this place so much more than that. I hem and haw. Can't decide. So I subscribe monthly. Four bucks. Four dollars a month. It seems laughable how little that is. And then I remember when that amount wasn't laughable - at all. There was a time early in my marriage to MrCJB, when KidCJB was little that an automatic $4 monthly withdrawal might have overdrawn my account if I hadn't been paying attention. I totally get where a lot of people are coming from when they say they can't afford to subscribe. Even $4 a month can matter so, so much.
Can I afford to get a life time subscription before they expire? Yes, in a few days, as soon as the Christmas buying clears, I can. We have been so, so lucky. But I'm not going to. I owe Daily Kos and Markos more than that. I'm going to keep paying my $4 a month until I feel like I've paid off my debt for the sanity this place has given me. And so much of that is due to the people that are reading this. My heartfelt gratitude to the DK community for everything you have given me over the last 8 years. I owe you more than you will ever know.
And I will make good on that. I will join the wonderful subscription-buying party on the 22nd of the month. That's payday. So, please keep the diaries going until I can help someone get a lifetime subscripotion. Until then, and for many happy, frustrating, conservative-defeating years to come, I hope to keep paying my pittance per month.
Love to the community.
Fondly,
Kelly