So recently I was chatting with someone and they asked, "Why don&apos;t you have any ads up on your blog?". The honest answer was that I had never considered it and wouldn&apos;t even know where to start. 

So after some thinking, I really started to consider the option. We&apos;re officially in a recession, I have a new addition to the family as well as 3 teenage girls with ever-growing needs & in general, my expenses have gone up. 

But I&apos;m not keen on the idea of turning my blog into some banner rotating link farm and bombarding my readers with crap at every turn. I think it would devalue the blog to some extent but there has to be a good balance. I&apos;m also not interested in selling my soul to blog about crap that I would never use or anything remotely associated with that. This is my little nook of the web & I don&apos;t want it viewed negatively.

Again, I&apos;m not even certain how to start but I do really want to consider it. I just bought the book <u><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/08/youve-read-problogger-the-blog-now-buy-the-book/">Problogger</a></u> to see if it can give me some ideas. Maybe you guys can give me some advice. A few extra bucks certainly wouldn&apos;t hurt & would definitely help in at least paying my hosting fee! :D