intro and experience with money

Ok this is my blog mostly dealing with bonuses and advantage play but also about finances. I've been dabbling in bonuses for about a couple years and have found them to be fun and pretty lucrative. Obviously with the ban on September 30, its been worse but still there are opportunities. But here just a brief info on my background with money:



1980s--well I was just kid and didn't think much about money or really been introduced to it.
1990-1996--pretty much the same here, didn't think much about money, always had a sack lunch so didn't even think about lunch money!
1997-2001--well being a teenager I should have gotten a job, but unfortunately I didn't think much about it, I just cared about playing video games :/. Sucks as there was plenty of opportunity to make some money, whether a job or just website. Especially the dot-com boom.
late 2002--got first job but just temporary. still made like $700 so it wasn't bad.
early 2003- got first part-time job, like made $7/hour, kept it till end of year. Made like $5k.
mid 2003--got very interested in stocks and markets. Did my first trade in August, which was ATVI and made me some money. But overall I was breakeven.
2004-definitely a significant year. I filed my first tax return, owed like $50 due to me being a dependent and having no exemption. Also really started actively trading. I made like 3000 trades overall and made low 5 figures, a few hundred percent return based on my few thousand I had.
2005-another significant year. I owed like $2500 in taxes! Damn it sucked to pay that much, I only made low 5 figures so I didn't know why I paid that much. Also got into casino bonuses, well hehe this is what this blog is mostly about and this what I am doing mostly to make money. I still do trade some but bonuses are a better way.