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For the bloggers that talk about their personal finances on their blogs, how do you let your readers know about this information. Do you do posts with spreadsheets that list everything, do you list them all in your sidebar, or do you do something else to get this information across?

I don't feel comfortable posting this information on the internet yet. We might post our debt paydown (my girlfriend's student loans) but posting my assets gives me an uneasy feeling for some reason.

WorkSaveLive said:

I do an update once a month based on the happenings of the previous month. I update our total change in savings (cash and retirement), amount of debt paid that month, total amount debt paid over the last year, and I show the change in our net worth.

 

Everything I do is via graph. I think a lot of people enjoy the visuals.

Can you link me to one of your posts?

OneCentAtatime said:

Is in't it your own opinion Jeffrey to present the way you want? I see people comfortable in sharing every item on income and expense sections. People like me share only the percentage growth in networth every year.

Yes — it most certainly is. The reason that I was asking was that I had people complaining how I was displaying this information on one of my blogs, so I'm building a wordpress plugin to make it easier. It works for me, but I figured if other people have different ways of sharing their info that can easily be placed into it, I might as well add those functions so it is worthwhile to others as well (since it is already built)

I have a general net worth listed in my sidebar and break down my finances in update posts as follows:

Debt paid off.

Liquid cash sitting in savings/checking.

Highly-liquid investments (assets), approximate worth.

I probably will not feel comfortable listing net worth once it reaches a certain point, however, especially since my blog is not anonymously-written. And I'm pretty vague on specific investments because I dabble in areas which require more than a basic knowledge of certain markets. This seems to be pretty common though — for example, stock holders will usually not talk about specific holdings, either.

Sometimes I feel a little uncomfortable sharing some of this intimate information and I am trying to figure out why. Is it embarrassment? Pride? (Financially I am not doing that great, but also not completely awful. I could also be doing much, much better.)

There certainly is a stigma attached to putting it all out there, financially. 

Short version of this post: Although I currently show specific numbers I likely will at some point switch over to listing percentages only.

Well…I can't ever figure out how to post a link on this forum.

http:// worksavelive.com/2012/07/ saving-down-payment-for-house/

(take out the spaces)

I update monthly and use NetWorthIQ for the charts and graphs

savingadvice said:

WorkSaveLive said:

Well…I can't ever figure out how to post a link on this forum.

 

http:// worksavelive.com/2012/07/ saving-down-payment-for-house/

 

(take out the spaces)

Do you prefer displaying your debt payments in an upward graph like you have, or on a downward graph (starting with the total amount of debt moving down toward zero)?

Considering that I'm an investment advisor, my boss and I decided it would be best to show the graphs as I have them (I had to get the site/some ideas approved before I could launch it). We were a little concerned with clients discovering my blog and finding out the total amount of debt that I had. The way I've slanted it shows how much we've paid off but doesn't reveal how much we have (or have left to go).

Saying that, in my personal graphs I show the total debt tracking down towards "ZERO."