Mon 7 Sep 2015
Why Are All The Personal Finance Bloggers Dying Off?
Posted by RichSlick under Rants, Raves
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This Labor Day weekend I decided to stroll down memory lane and catch up with some personal finance bloggers that I enjoyed reading over the years and much to my surprise I find that most of them have either sold out and moved on or have left their blogs hanging out to dry in the Internet sun unattended.
I must admit that I’ve been a very infrequent blogger but I have very valid excuses:
- I have been traveling the world
- I am at my career peak and I am in very high demand
- I am trying to make the most of my time left with my teenage kids before they head off to college
- I am trying to make plans for the future (more global travel) over the next few years and that takes considerable planning
First up is My 1st Million at 33 which I read rather regularly a few years ago seems to be sporadically posting now.
I just clicked on Free Money Finance and see that his blog was abandoned about a year ago but seems to potentially be starting a new one.
Classics like The Simple Dollar and Get Rich Slowly have both sold out and posts are now more “advertainment” than anything useful. There are many more but I won’t list them here since many are simply defunked.  It is good to see Lazy Man and Money going strong still though.
I remember the great debates around “frugality vs capitalism” or “buy new vs buy used” or “spend less vs earn more” and all that seems dead now.    I can only surmise that many of the finance bloggers were in a similar situation to me…started blog in 30s and is now in 40s and have better uses for free time than blogging.
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