It just figures. Not two minutes after I hit “publish” on that last post where I mentioned wanting being determined to go to BlogHer next year, I saw an ad in my sidebar from BlogHer ads saying, “Hey! Sign up for next year, yo!”
NEXT year?? Already??
Surely this was a joke. But no… I clicked through and saw next year’s venue had been selected, revealed, hotel announced and registration was open. PEOPLE ALREADY HAD THEIR TICKETS. I kid you not.
And in the span of two seconds I was both thrilled and excited that the city chosen for BlogHer ‘10 is New York and devastated because I do not have $200 to buy conference tickets right now. And, considering our Disney Extravaganza here in a week and change, I probably won’t have it for at least another month either.
It’s one of those moments that I feel incredibly frustrated that our society is built on, for and by people who use credit cards. Particularly when travel is involved, people just EXPECT you to use a credit card. Don’t have the money in your account right now? No big, just put it on credit and pay it off when you do. Piece of cake!
And then there’s me. I have to save the money. I have to budget. Make sacrifices. Plan. And I was planning to buy tickets after Christmas, when they normally go on sale and when we have no looming need to buy gifts any longer. It works out well.
But ho no. Not THIS year! This year the tickets are on sale now! And I’m scared half to death that they’ll be all sold out by the time I scrape together enough dough to go.
GAH.
So maybe I won’t be going to BlogHer ‘10. Which is going to make me feel VERY cranky indeed. Partially because it’s BlogHer and I love BlogHer. And partially because it’s New York City and I’ve been dying to go back there. Pretty much ever since two minutes after we left it back in 2002. I had grand plans to find roommates (you can fit four in a room, right??), scour for cheap airfare, paint my toes, pack up my iPhone and knitting and just GO.
So I’m hoping.. praying that there will be tickets left to purchase here in a few months (again, probably after Christmas… dang those presents anyhow!) and that I will be able to go.
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Kid, with a baby on the way, I may miss out on buying tickets for BlogHer next year, too. I can’t plan more than 12 months in advance right now. (I sort of count on that few-months-out announcement.)
I feel you. I’m hoping it doesn’t sell out this weekend!!
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I am excited because this will mean only a subway ride for me. but yeah, hope it’s not sold out by the time I have money for a ticket. if all else fails, I’ll skip the conference and just buy tix to the parties.
Please let the recession work in our favor on this one…and let tickets be available for a long time to come!
I’m hoping the tickets are still available then too. I can actually go to NYC, but I can’t buy tickets now. I have to do this in $200 increments – conference tickets, hotel room, train tickets & spending money.
The fact that BlogHer ‘10 is in New York leaves me out, I’m not even contemplating it. I’m still kicking myself for passing on this year’s, though.
I get where you’re coming from about having to save up the money and wishing for more time to do so, but I have to admit I don’t really follow you on the whole I-hate-credit-cards thing.
I just don’t see how putting the tickets up for sale now is buying into some credit card conspiracy that expects people to use credit cards and assumes they don’t have the money right now but will be all tra-la-tra-la, I will just pay this off when I get around to it. I would think that it’s more like they expect people to put it on their credit card because that is how online transactions usually work, and then it’s not really any of their business when or how you pay that charge off.
Just because someone uses a credit card doesn’t mean they’ll automatically get sucked into debt by the Man. Some people are just as responsible with money as you are and use their credit card only when they have the money to pay it off in full every month. And some of those people use their points earned with that credit card to fly to New York, rubbing their hands with glee. Say, in August of 2010. (Um, hypothetically speaking of course. *ducks*)