I haven't ever been able to buy steem. This kinds of pushes me to try to earn more and power it up. I think it took me January to June to earn my first 130 steem, then next thirty days to earn my way to a total of 230 and 20 more days to reach 330SP. The falling prices have definitely helped me in increasing my speed of accumulating steem.

Next year we all would be shaking are heads at this:

"They were lucky.... they got it when it was dirt cheap"

:-)