Buy me a coffee

After putting it off for way too long, I’ve finally set up a way for readers to more easily make donations to support my work in creating this blog. The service is called Buy Me a Coffee, and here’s the link if you want to donate. It’s super easy to do and you don’t need to set up an account or anything. Think of it as a “tip jar.”

Previously I’d used the donations widget that WordPress provides. I didn’t find out until later that people have to register for WordPress in order to donate that way. I think Buy Me a Coffee will work much better for everyone because it’s so fast and easy.

Right now I’m only set up for one-time donations, just to see how it all goes. Soon, I plan to offer a way for readers to become regular supporters (patrons) and get some exclusive content from me. If you’re interested in becoming a regular supporter sooner rather than later, let me know.

Here’s the link to make a donation again: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/underthepavingstones

I hope it goes without saying that you should only donate if you can afford it! And just so you know I’m not in it for the money. But writing and publishing these articles is work, especially with as much care as I put into them, and I don’t see what’s wrong with getting a bit of support from readers who are willing and able. If I was a painter, people would ask me how they could buy my stuff. But with writers that need for material support is more invisible, for whatever reason.

By the way, the reason the feature image is hot chocolate and not coffee is because I quit drinking coffee a long time ago. It makes my anxiety go through the roof, and now that I know I’m autistic I know there’s a neurological reason for that. Caffeine is bad for many of us autistic folks (not all of us — there’s a reason they call it a spectrum). So yeah, hot chocolate is my preferred morning beverage and I love it to death, yum. Buy Me a Coffee even lets you change the symbolic “thing” people buy you to anything you want — but I didn’t want to confuse anyone by changing it to hot chocolate (or beer, or records) so I left it as is.

In case you missed it before, here’s the link to buy me a hot chocolate one more time!

(If for some reason you’d rather use the WordPress donations widget, here’s my old donations page.)

While you’re at it you can subscribe to the blog here:

Thank you! Really looking forward to creating more awesome stuff for y’all to read.