5,000

This is our 5,000th entry on The Scratching Post. We started on February 11, 2006 with this post.The Scratching Post was started as an effort to make money. I was down on my luck to the point where it took me weeks to save up the $15 I needed to take a load of rubbish to the dump. Every last penny was precious.I had free time in uneven increments, at strange hours and with a relatively