Meet the mother who lost friends over her NFT obsession

06:45 – Over coffee, I read about the horror show’s carnage which is the crypto market this morning. Everything is far down. I’m a little scared, but I know this is a long game. It’s time to buy the decline at the average dollar cost. I go with bitcoin, ETH and Avalanche. On the NFT page, I sign up to add more ETH to my Metamask wallet for an upcoming pre-sale I’m on the approval list for.

8 in the morning – After school breaks, I hop on a Twitter site on the drive home. It is a room led by women MommaBearG75 – who does a fantastic job of bridging the bridge gap and bringing women into the Bulls and Apes NFT project. I appreciate that, since many NFTs do not really make women feel so wanted. Her space always feels like a warm hug. I miss it!

In my Web2 life, I’m part of a very close-knit Facebook mom group, but ever since I switched to NFTs, I’ve felt completely rejected by many of them. Most of them think NFTs are a scam (they are no more a scam than buying a stock), or bad for the environment (this changes as technology evolves), or just stupid. I used to think about all these things. When I first heard about NFTs, I was aggressive towards them. I thought the art was lame and only idiots who bought them. But instead of doubling my ignorance, I decided to educate myself. Finding a kickass Web3 community in the female-led space was a total surprise. This is a side of the NFTs I feel most people are not aware exist. My Web2 moms think that NFTs are all technical brother who turns JPGs into stocks. It is NOT this world. There is so much authentic, loving support in the women-led NFT gathering space.

8:30 – Reply to emails and then check OpenSea to find that I have offers on a number of NFTs I own, even though I have not put them up for sale. The NFT I get the most offers on – for upwards of almost 1 ETH [Editor’s note: At the time of writing this was about $3,000, but currently is around $1,100.] – is the myBFF bracelet I got for FREE! Also got offers on my spaceHUG and my VeeFriends2 elk. What a strange world I live in, man.

09.00 – Host my weekly Twitter Space, The ABCs of NFTs. I want to be the encyclopedia Britannica for Gen Xs (or someone who is confused by crypto and NFTs) – so I focus on one topic a week in hopes of demystifying it all a bit. Today’s lecture: benefit – and how nostalgia can be a very good benefit. Utility in NFTs are the things you get after you buy the art that makes you feel even better about having bought it. So, for example, with my collection of Gen-X NFTs, what you can get are mixtapes, yearbooks, Gen X-inspired merch and IRL / Metaverse events for proprietors – just fun things that make you feel good about to have purchased an NFT. By using nostalgia, I hope to show people that there is an NFT out there that can be related and adapted to their interests to make Web3 seem less intimidating.

11.00 – I feel a little tired (I’m secretly an introvert, so hosting a Twitter room struck me a bit), so I take a cat watch.

12.00 – Hop on Discord to check in with my mods about an 80’s trivia night and 80’s movie night we plan to arrange. I have to decide on a movie – I think Real genius.

13.00 – Take my daily trip and bring cryptopodcasts with you. It seems to appear more and more every day, especially women-led. I am listening to Community builders in Web3 with Heather Parady, who used to make another podcast I loved called NFTs for beginners.

15:00 – Sneezed too hard and peed a little on my pants. #mammaliv

15:30 – Pick up the child from school and we go to a beach park nearby. She frolicks in the ankle-deep water and examines shells while I fart around on TikTok and try to come up with something wise to post. I’m coming up empty.

17.00. – Dinner. I make bean burritos, cut up some peppers and heat up some rice. The kid decides that she would rather have cereal.

20.00 – After the nightly epic battle of brushing teeth, the kid is in bed. I pour a giant glass of wine and go over artwork for my NFT collection. I am loving the new assets we have added. Especially fond of these new 80s-inspired goats.