Thirty-five million views.
That's approximately how many times people watched me chop a piece of wood.
Although, if we're being fair, I'm pretty sure the wood wasn't the reason.
The video started like a lot of my Honey's Old House videos did. I was outside working on a project, this time chopping wood. But when I swung the axe and split the wood, the video quickly cut to a shot of me in my panties.
That little video went absolutely insane on Instagram.
It eventually reached around 35 million views, and my social media following exploded. I gained a few hundred thousand followers just from that video.
But the story of how a woman renovating a 1955 fixer-upper ended up with an OnlyFans actually started a little before that.
And no, it was definitely not part of the original renovation plan.
Wait... What's OnlyFans?
When I started Honey's Old House, my social media pages began growing faster than I expected.
And as they grew, I started getting the same question from people over and over again:
"Do you have an OF?"
At the time, I honestly didn't know that much about OnlyFans.
So I did what I normally do when I don't know something.
I researched it.
And the more I researched, the more I realized there was potentially a lot of money on the table.
At that point, I was in my mid-to-late thirties. I'd gone to college. I'd had careers. I had a normal nine-to-five job.
And I basically thought:
What the hell? I'll try it.
Maybe it was time to do something fun for once.
So in late summer 2022, I started my OnlyFans.
And Then Things Got Crazy
The account actually started making pretty decent money before anything went massively viral.
Then came the wood-chopping video.
Thirty-five million views later, everything changed.
My Instagram following exploded, Honey's Old House reached an entirely new audience, and naturally, some of those people found their way over to my OnlyFans.
That's when the account really took off.
What had started as an experiment suddenly wasn't looking much like an experiment anymore.
It was becoming a business.
A very time-consuming business.
OnlyFans Became My Second Full-Time Job
There's a side of being a creator that people don't really see.
They see a photo.
They see a video.
They might assume you post something and then go about your day.
That wasn't my experience at all.
At the time, I was still working 40 hours a week at my regular job.
Then I'd work on Honey's Old House.
Then I'd create content.
Then I'd run my OnlyFans account.
And running the account itself was practically a full-time job.
I was answering messages, chatting with subscribers, creating content and managing the business seven days a week.
There was no clocking out.
After about two months, it became obvious that I couldn't keep doing both.
So I made a pretty major decision.
I quit my nine-to-five.
I Never Thought It Would Hurt Honey's Old House
Some people might assume that starting an OnlyFans would conflict with having a home-renovation brand.
I never really looked at it that way.
If anything, it helped grow Honey's Old House.
The personality and humor were already part of my renovation videos. The quick flashes and unexpected edits were part of what made the content different in the first place.
OnlyFans didn't suddenly create a completely different person.
It became another part of the business that was already growing around Honey's Old House.
And then something pretty cool happened.
The money started going right back into the place where all of this began.
The House That Built the Business Started Paying for the House
Renovating an entire home is expensive.
Really expensive.
Especially when you're doing it on one income.
Without the business I built through Honey's Old House and OnlyFans, I don't think I would have been able to renovate this house on anything close to the scale I have.
And the craziest part is how it all came full circle.
I bought an old house.
The house gave me something to make videos about.
The videos built an audience.
The audience encouraged me to try something I probably never would have otherwise tried.
That became a business.
And that business gave me the ability to keep rebuilding the house.
Definitely Not Part of the Five-Year Plan
If you had told me before I bought this place that a 1955 fixer-upper, an axe and a pair of panties would eventually lead me to leaving my corporate job, I probably would have thought you were insane.
But that's kind of the whole story of Honey's Old House.
There wasn't some perfectly mapped-out business plan.
I didn't buy this house because I thought it would make me money.
I bought it because I was starting over.
Then I started fixing things.
I started filming it.
People started watching.
And when an unexpected opportunity showed up, I decided to see where it went.
I'm glad I did.
Because this old house didn't just give me a seemingly endless list of things that needed fixing.
It gave me a career I never expected.
And somehow, we're still renovating.