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Jays n Dees Projects in 2025

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A Quick Post on Our Projects in 2025

Last Updated: 2nd April 2025

This quick post has been created to keep readers knowledgeable on Jays n Dees projects for 2025.
It is already starting April, so once again the year is galloping away from Us.

However, there are a few major projects already in Our sights, and some that We are already undertaking.
Hopefully you can find some inspiration from these if you are loking for something (else) to accomplish!

Let’s go through some of Our Projects now and provide a breakdown for each of them:

Jays n Dees e-Store

The major project of 2025 would have to be Our e-Store, www.jaysndees.com.au. It is true that we also have Our Blog (from where you are reading this), and Our Free LTC and DASH Cryptocurrency Faucets, but the big ambition is to build the e-store up to its’ full potential.

We are limiting the e-Store to Australia for the moment, but eventually the plan will be for international reach.
Australian Print Providers are used, and we offer Free Post for Australia.

We did initially have the store set for worldwide, but the amount of problems that were faced in the beginning trying to get things right was quite exhausting for me (D1) as I am still even learning new things.
I have posted on StackOverflow a small number of times, and there is also a large amount of reading and learning I am still yet to do, from lots of different data sources.

To date, everything listed in the e-Store is Approved. There is nothing in the Google Merchant Centre (I am Australian, so it is ‘re’, and not ‘er’) that is Limited or Not Approved. There are some missing signals for Australia under ‘Store Quality’, but even though I have the items listed in that particular sectionalready, I am a bit stuck on them for the moment.

Novel (Sept/Oct 2024) Project

Sometime back in September 2024, I began drafting up a novel. There are no mentions of plot or storyline within this post. I do not want to spoil anything for any potential future readers.

Whilst I managed to build something up to around the low 30s in chapters, the story wasn’t working properly. I would need to go right back to the beginning, and rebuild it from there. I found that I had many holes in the main story, and even some of the other bits and pieces of it just didn’t quite make sense.

This year though, I do plan to complete it and make it available as a digital product through Our e-Store, and also potentially other ebook outlets.

Cryptocurrency

This year so far has already seen some interesting developments.

We currently have around 90% of Our crypto portfolio locked into rewards earning cryptos, namely Cosmos and Osmosis.
About a week ago now, we received a message via Our Self Custody Wallet that their support for Osmosis was ending, and that we needed to unstake Our funds and convert them to something else. We have around a week left of them being locked (unstaking takes 15 days), and then we will need to convert them to a supported coin.

I think that any of that particular crypto will be converted to Cosmos, where it will be able to still earn a decent yield.

Throughout the course of 2025, the main plan with it all is to just let it all earn wherever we can. Once again, there will be no investments.

We still utilise Our cryptocurrency mining rig. The only change here is the coin it is used to mine for. We have switched it back to mining Ethereum Classic (ETC), mostly because of the cooler months that we are coming into.

Home Projects

There are many a number of projects that we are needing to do around Our property, but this year I have decided to focus on a small group of them.

Obviously there is lots of building and renovating to do, and these jobs will be completed as time and money permits.

I have mostly completed setting up and preparing the garden beds for this year. There is going to be lots of garlic to hopefully sell once it is finished. I purchased some different varieties of garlic to try out this year along with what we usually do, so it is certainly going to be an interesting season with this!

We are going in and planting a large variety of the produce we consume on a regular basis, mainly to try and save some money at the supermarkets with shopping. With a family of 6 to feed, this is not a cheap exercise at all.

Another project for the year, is expanding upon the small private golf course I started many years ago. I would like to see a few more greens in place, with multiple tee off points attached to each. That would easily get it up to 9 holes – perfect for a nice casual weekend of barbeques, bonfires, chasing balls with clubs, and drinks.

eBook

At the start of the year, I started designing up my very own ebook for a specific sort of project. As time permits, I will finish the pieces I have been slowly working on, and later in the year I will also release my ebook. Both the projects, and the ebook, will be made available in Our e-Store.

Whilst I understand that some of the projects I accomplish are possibly for a very niche market, that is not going to stop me from giving it a really good go. There is so much to learn and succeed at when it comes to marketing ideas, and the best possible way is to just get stuck into it and keep trying.

Different Car

I currently have a 1997 80 series Toyota Landcruiser 1FZ-FE as my work vehicle. It is a great truck, it can carry lots, it can tow big loads, and it can go almost anywhere. As a general work truck though, it does get a little heavy on fuel, especially as it is a full time four wheel drive. Most of the time, this capability is not needed.

So I have managed to acquire a more suitable vehicle for my work. It is a Holden Crewman, and it will be plenty enough for what I need. It is currently unregistered, and it does have a small number of the known issues of them to fix and repair, but once I get in and sort them all out it will be good to go.

The only downside to it is, it will not carry all 6 of us at the one time like the ‘Cruiser can.
We do have our family Carnival for this purpose though.

Once the Crewman is properly back on the road, I will consider decommissioning the Landcruiser.
Whilst I am not yet sure if I will sell it complete or part it out, I will list it on the Jays n Dees e-Store, and also any other appropriate website when the time comes.

Yarning (D2)

D2 has been very busy with learning how to yarn items. She is quite good at doing it, and has even managed to give all 4 Jays a few of her final products!
There is likely something very theraputic with creating something like that from nothing. I know it is something I could never do.

A few items have even already been whipped up by simply free forming them, so at some point I will try to convince her to put it into an ebook or something – at least a post about it anyway.

There may even be potential to put some products onto the e-Store.

Write and Post some Music

There comes a time in life where we must share what we learn.
Over the last few decades, I have been dabbling in writing my own songs.

I am quite shy and reserved in real life, so nothing has ever really eventuated from it.

J2 is starting to take a keen interest in music, both instruments and in writing, as he is getting to double digits in age, so I think he might be able to spur me into action a little.

At some stage we will begin to post some of the things we come up with. Sometime in the near future.

Building Projects

As the twins approach their first years of schooling, there is a need to create more space for them. More space for all of us too. I have mostly completed some of the smaller projects, but there is still some fencing left to do to ensure we have adequate safe space for them.

We also have upcoming kitchen projects, lounge room refurbishments, and also a better bedroom arrangement to focus on.

The projects themselves will be posted at a later date as they are completed, and hopefully all 4 Jays will learn a thing or two along the way. That is the aim, anyway.

Quads, Mowers, Motors Projects

We have a small number of motor powered contraptions sitting around on our small property, for the most part, doing nothing. The project plan for this, is to simply get them operational once again so they can be put to practical use.

As accomplishments are made, we will be sure to post about them.
It is all for learning and educational purposes after all.

A few of the projects include:

  • Kia Sportage so the Jays can learn how to drive a manual gearbox vehicle
  • Cheap made Quad bike for learning 4 stroke small engine repairs
  • Cheap made small motor bike for learning about 2 stroke engines
  • A couple of ride on mowers
  • Various brushcutters, mowers and other tools

Part of all this, is to also teach them about looking after, and maintaining their things.

Recipes

Throughout the year, I would love to get into making a couple of new recipe ideas.

We have a few delicious meals that we have altered over the years to suit our family. There are a number of them that have not yet been posted on our blog.

This year though, that is going to change to some extent. We all love food, and we all love new ideas for it.

What better way to show it, than to share with everybody!

Holiday with Family

With all of the business of Life, sometimes we forget the good things. I know I am heavily guilty of it.

So at some point during the year, we are going to plan a nice getaway for the family. This of course, will need to be sometime during a holiday period, as the 2 older Jays have their school commitments.

A holiday though, maybe a week or so long, where we can just go and explore something new, do something different, and reconnect.

That will be something worthwhile.

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Idle Cryptocurrency and what we do with it

Welcome to our post on our idle cryptocurrency and what we do with it.

It is no secret to us. We have sat there watching our crypto numbers. They have gone up. We see them go down. There is lots of red and green too. We trade. Some we win and some we lose. We give some away via our free cryptocurrency faucets. We claim from crypto faucets.

But essentially, like many people, we do not yet use crypto to its’ fullest possible potential.
As a result of this, we have idle cryptocurrency.

So we thought about it for a while, and sourced ways where we can earn something on the crypto we had laying around in our wallets.

Our Game Plan Forms for Our Idle Cryptocurrency

It all started with our BTC. A little while ago now, we put pretty much all that we had left of our BTC reserves into the Free Bitcoin website. This has been slowly earning interest for us on a daily basis, along with the free btc we can claim from the various types of free spins we can do, hourly, and also via email links. We have also obtained a little over 18600 fun tokens there, which at the time of writing, is worth about 0.00094BTC. Our base account has around 0.0021BTC in it at this same time.

jaysndees free bitcoin affiliate idle cryptocurrency idea

Recently, it was decided that we would put the majority of our crypto into protocols that allowed for earnings whilst it was just sitting around. Undoubtedly, there are quite a large number of such protocols out there in the cryptosphere, but we want to keep it fairly simple not only for ourselves, but also for the Jays and how we teach them about it.

We tracked down all of our available cryptos and set to work. Admittedly, this was not a hard task, as we do have pretty much everything tucked into our SCWallet (Self Custody Wallet) Exodus.

From Mining to Trying

Firstly, we got our VTC from mining exchanged into BTC. We were able to accomplish this via the No-KYC exchange known as FreiExchange. They offer no trading and deposit fees, and low fees for withdrawals, as well as a great range of available trading pairs.
Although a valid email address is required for your notifications and confirmations, it is a fairly simple process to set up private email addresses if you want to keep it all separate from your mainstream stuff. For such choices we recommend Proton Mail. This is why we are calling it No-KYC.
It is worth mentioning here that withdrawals from FreiExchange does require that you have 2FA for account security.

Exchanging

Once our VTC/BTC exchange completed, we then created a BTC/LTC exchange. When this was finalised we sent the LTC to our SCWallet. We use LTC as our shuttle due to the cheap costs of sending transactions.

We were then able to go and create exchanges for our desired yield earning cryptocurrencies.
After some research and deliberation, we settled on Cosmos (ATOM) and Algorand (ALGO).

Cosmos self describes as “The Internet of Blockchains”. We will not go into details of their ecosystems here, but if you are interested in further reading, go and check out their website.

Converting

We used the No-KYC StealthEx to provide us with extremely competitive exchange rates to convert our LTC to ATOM. From start to finish, the actual exchange took about 12 minutes by the time we had the new funds in our SCWallet.
This is a pretty good speed for what goes on behind the scenes.
If you like, you can test out their exchanges by using the widget we have conveniently provided below.
*SMALL NOTE*
By using the widget, we receive a small commission from the exchange which does not affect your final result.

Our final amount is a little over 9ATOM with an APY of 14.75%.

As mentioned earlier, we also got some ALGO. If you are interested in further reading, go and check out their website.
For this exchange, we used some of our free BTC, once again calling upon StealthEx as our chosen platform.
All up, the conversion took a minute or so under an hour, and the majority of that time was waiting for BTC block confirmations after the first one appeared. The actual exchange was fairly quick.
The staking process was simple via our SCWallet, and as such, we have a bit over 86ALGO with an APY of 8.18% currently, and we are in Governance Period 12.

Onwards the future

We would like to get into this solution to idle cryptocurrency in many more different ecosystems, but we do have our constraints and limitations, namely, not investing fiat into it, as that in itself is one of our current “Work in Progress” situations.

By earning our crypto from crypto, we believe that we are satisfactorily achieving it the correct way.

This is why we operate crypto faucets, use crypto faucets, and just try to participate in crypto in any way we can.

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Teaching the children about money in 2024

A learning experience for the Jays and the Dees

We have decided that is is surely the proper time to start formally teaching the children about money in 2024.
Crypto is popping up more often these days- online shopping, crypto atms, local coffee shops, and more.
Fiat currencies are already readily available for everything in our daily lives.

So it sort of makes sense to teach the younger generation a thing or two about these ways of money – new and old. After all, we were taught about the value of money, and how to earn it, and also how it could be lost, throughout our youth and our experiences growing up.
The added bonus that makes it easier though, is the fact that the majority of the current youth, are already digitally enhanced. They have mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and various other devices, that they use pretty much every other day. Bankcards, licences, identifications, documents, qr codes, the list is almost endless.
This is akin to a ‘GenE-D’ – Generation Everything Digital.

“The Path We Take”

This is Jays n Dees story, of how we are going to be teaching our children about these financial systems- both fiat currency, and the possibilities of cryptocurrency. Earning, spending, saving, and interest gains will all be included. Interactions with them as a customer and also as a seller will be taught as circumstances arise.
Our 4 children range in age from preteen, right back through to almost 3 years old. this year, they are J1-13yo, J2-9yo, and J3 and J4 twins-3yo.
This last month or so, both myself (D1) and D2, have been busy working out how we will encourage our children to be more proactive with their –chores– i mean responsibilities.
Because thats what they are. Responsibilities. They each have a responsibility to be an active contributing member of our household. Just as we both do each and every day.
This is the basis for teaching the children about money in 2024.

As a starting point, we have created a master plan of everything we hope to achieve. This plan is very fluid, and can adapt and evolve as necessary.
We have created a Behaviour Board, where each week we add to a list, a single entry that we as the parents feel each child needs to work on to become a better person. Even both of Us (D1 and D2) have a new entry each week.
Alongside of that, we all have a consequence that we must do if we do wrong against our proper behaviour. More into that, if we get 3 strikes, then we have an immediate media blackout for a 24 hour period.
Here is an image of our Media Usage Rules:

jaysndees teaching the children about money in 2024 media usage rules image

The media blackout is inclusive of phones, tablet devices, laptops, computers, gaming systems, television, and the ability to have a say in the evening movie with dinner.
These actions and consequences accumulate over the lifetime of our system, and the hope is that we can remember each of them and automatically perform any of the set consequences whenever our action is broken.
Here are a couple of our weekly examples:

jaysndees teaching the children about money in 2024 family behaviour board image

Back to the main topic, we have decided to pay out the allowances for our children in either fiat, crypto, or a combination. This decision is left as entirely their own, from which the basis of their decision is from whatever we can teach them, in a way that they can understand.
We all know about the principle, or their given weekly allowance, We have sat down with them and discussed their set weekly amounts, and the responsibilities that is expected of them consistently, as well as the extra stuff on the behaviour board.
We have also explained the basics of how the ‘we pay for’ versus ‘they pay for’. This is essentially that we pay for their education, food, sports/extracurricular activities, uniforms, safety, excursions, medical, hygiene, birthdays, and all the main important ‘child growing up’ things, but if they want that new shirt, toy, treat, game, or anything like that, then that is something they need to pay for out of their allowance.
To keep track of their allowance, we have a dedicated diary that has the inputs and outputs for each child on their own pages. On the same note, in a dedicated safe, we have a 1:1 equivalent of their allowance accumulated total in fiat currency.
This is the Bank of Mum and Dad.
All it needs, is a formal set of transaction id’s, and it would be its own blockchain!

Introducing The Bank of Mum and Dad

jaysndees teaching the children about money in 2024 parent bank bank of mum and dad image

Anyway, to wrap into all of this, is that the Bank of Mum and Dad gives interest. 5% for every $100 banked. This has its own set of rules to prevent cheating – can only earn the interest for each preset milestone once, minimum hold periods, no overdraws, no loans, fiat and crypto are seperate entities, no BofM&D interest on crypto, BofM&D cash out when the child gets a job, and many others.
This compares to a select number of cryptocurrency blockchains for our specific educational goals.

Now for the crypto part of it. They each have a protected wallet on their devices. We have physical backups of all the keys for each wallet in multiple locations. We even went so far as to generate each of them with their own personalised specific crypto address for the purposes of the BofM&D. All the private stuff is held by us, in multiple safe locations.
Eventually, after some teaching, they will have the option of keeping the provided wallet, or setting off with their gained wisdom to work out some of the finer details themselves.
We are serious in making this work out right for them. Such is the value of protection.
This is another part of teaching the children about money in 2024. Security of funds, and the keys/passwords/pincodes that protect it all.

Would you like to donate to each of the Jays? Or maybe to the Dees? Or even jaysndees itself?
A million “Thanks from All of Us” if you choose to. Know that it is appreciated beyond words.
We will post the basic wallet addresses here on this page for Litecoin (LTC), and we have numerous other different crypto addresses which are all available from Our Crypto Addresses page.

CRYPTO ADDRESSES (LTC)

We do have a common BTC wallet Address where donations will be split between the four Jays and ourselves. This wallet address is:
Jays n Dees BTC Wallet Address
– bc1q6cenfz55g348xmlyxlws0efk85pglqpqpqkf0l –
– bc1pzgw3cdqvlvzullkru9h7qru4852swjhyz3yecn9asp2fzquctylsvskmyt – (Taproot)
– 1Cw2K1WYZHy1QFU1zQojGiGVB1CJZSMMs1 – (Legacy)

We have also set up a provided cryptocurrency converter for all of the necessary actions. As it becomes necessary, we will show them how to use it correctly.
Here is where we will begin our teachings about fees, including our accumulated knowledge gained through our time of dealing with cryptocurrencies. For no matter if you want to convert fiat or crypto, send or receive fiat or crypto, or if you are dealing with BofM&D, banks or decentralisation, there is always going to be fees charged to the actioning party – aka the sender. Fees are there for the txid on the chain. Some are fair, some are extreme.
This is right through to the fees that we get charged to send crypto to them initially, and the nigglies that get exposed when it comes to tax time with gains and losses, and the like.

Alongside of this, we are also starting to explain interest and staking as ways they can earn more on idle funds, where it is possible and worthwhile. This comes back to the BofM&D 5% per $100 and crypto staking options.

There will be numerous discussions about important crypto events and how they may affect the crypto they hold. In saying that, we will not bombard them with every single happening or such other items, except where we may see a problem. We will however, expose them to news relating to the financial sector as a whole, both fiat and crypto.

As a compliment to all of this, we are trying to guide them on the path to good bookkeeping. We are open with the BofM&D bookwork with them. They get to see each of the inputs and outputs that occur when they spend and receive.
This is where the true teaching is. Always be aware of your inputs and outputs, no matter the circumstance.

I personally have a strong belief in the future of cryptocurrency. When you really think about it, a lot of us are doing it anyway when we do online banking. We are sending out from our account or wallet where we are storing our funds for access. The resulting send gets recorded with a transaction id. At this point, the funds settle with the receiver.
We do it at retailers where we use a card or the physical currency to obtain goods or services. We then get a receipt with a transaction id.
The only thing different, is that one uses tangible items – cash, card, receipt, central authority. The other is digital and decentralised.
A number is still a number, value is still value, and buying and selling remain unchanged.

* Not intended as financial advice. DYOR *
* This article is for educational purposes only. No warranty is intended or implied *