My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 29

The #SaturdaySavers programme run with huge dedication and commitment by @shanibeer came to an end with the close of 2025.

But there are a couple of initiatives to keep the motivation going !

I've decided to post them in the BusyBees Community. This is a community set up to support @zakludick's tireless work in encouraging and teaching newer Hive users. Additionally, I'm adding the #SlothlySavers tag and linking my updates in their weekly update post, because that's another place where former #SaturdaySavers are gravitating to.

Image by Rebekka D from Pixabay

Here's a screenshot of last week's progress;

How Did The Week Go ?

The heatwave in the UK is still ongoing, although it's cooled very, very slightly in the last day or so. But I've still managed to make a few posts and kept up with curation.

The highlight of the week was getting out for an evening (a change from work !) to a local arts festival and a mini-Hive meetup. Thank you @nicklewis for setting it up - it was fun 😀

You'll see I've added a new line to the spreadsheet to quantify the GBP equivalent of the HIVE and HP gains I've made. It's mostly for my own benefit, because it helps me create context around otherwise abstract numbers. But I'm not going to create an annual total figure for it, mainly because the nature of the formula means that any conversions from HBD to HIVE will give a distorted impression.

The Hive Debt interest rate has finally dropped below 25%, which is good news, so I've taken a chance and moved my HBD from a stop-loss pending trade in HiveDex and put it into Savings to earn a little interest. A 10% interest rate is still far better than I'd earn from a conventional savings account, because governments the world over are keeping interest rates well under true inflation (which seems to be running at about 3x the B.S. published rates) in order to devalue the personal wealth of their citizens and inflate away some of the monstrous levels of sovereign debt.

I noticed that the price of gold is continuing to slip. When I googled the reasons, it showed the main reason was that the dollar is holding it's value based on an expectation that the Fed will hold or even increase interest rates (but of course, as mentioned above, nowhere near the real inflation figure). This is pulling investment cash towards US bonds and away from gold. However, I still think that governments are selling the stuff to prop up their economies while central banks are hoovering it up at an artificially low price. I wish I had some cash to invest in a bit of gold !

Oh, and I found a new Hive tool which could be a real help in keeping on track with my activity - it's almost as if it was designed to help #BusyBees and #SlothlySavers 😁 It's HivePulse from the team behind @actifit (I think.... it doesn't actually show a credit on the page, so I've picked it up from the HiveDevs update posts). There are three tabs - Dashboard, Insights and - the one I like - Goals, where you can create targets for yourself and then see in graphical form how you're doing.

So that's the week so far.... have a fab weekend everyone ! 😀