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4:43 pm
February 13, 2012
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Edward Antrobus
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Apparently, this forum doesn't have a networth option.
Anyway, it was recently brought to my attention that my assumption that "most" PF bloggers were doing well in the net worth category was incorrect. I'd like to follow more bloggers who are in my situation (i.e. struggling under mountain of debt). So I thought I'd do a poll of people's net worths. Nothing too specific, just general ranges.
The options are:
- Negative
- About even
- $1000-10,000
- $10,000-$100,000
- $100,000-$1,000,000
- $1,000,000+
I'll start: negative
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5:13 pm
February 13, 2012
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iam1percent
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Well, I started my blog because I hit $1,000,000 in net worth at age 34.
However, people may be calculating it differently. I include my primary residence. It may also be interesting to know people's ages with their net worth.
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11:05 pm
February 13, 2012
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PK @ DQYDJ
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I think you can probably separate PF bloggers into a number of distinct categories:
- Debt Bloggers – start their blog to have a journal of debt repayments, *or* to be accountable to an audience
- Reformed Debt Bloggers – used to be in debt, now write about how to escape it
- Gurus – Unclear what their real background is, but have no problem dishing out advice
- Living the Lifestyle – Bloggers who haven't been in debt and can explain how they've stayed in the black
- Lifestyle Bloggers – Staying out of debt while pursuing a dream to travel or otherwise pursue a non 9-5 career
- Wildcard Bloggers (I toss myself in this category) – Big picture topics (politics, economics) intermixed with personal finance advice. Not so much of the personal connection.
- Motivational Bloggers – Usually of the 'earn more money' type. Often they have quite impressive results
- Early Retirement Bloggers – On the path to freedom at impressively low ages (or related: those who have retired but continue to blog)
- Frugality Bloggers – How can you escape a common situation with the most money intact?
Isn't specialization grand (Please add to this list if you think of more, anyone!)? I think your target is probably the top two on the list, if I'm understanding correctly!
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11:24 pm
February 13, 2012
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Nice categories, PK. Those are pretty good. I like to think I am both debt blogger and wildcard blogger AND lifestyle blogger, except I might have lived the lifestyle first before earning the income  . Learned my lesson.
Edward, stop by my blog, we're in the same Net Worth boat (SS Poor Decisions?)! Well, for me anyways.
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7:25 am
February 14, 2012
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PK @ DQYDJ
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Heh, if they are good we could move them to their own subject and try to get everyone to classify themselves? After Edward picks up a good number of sites, of course.
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7:55 am
February 14, 2012
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Michelle (Making Sense of Cents)
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PK @ DQYDJ said:
I think you can probably separate PF bloggers into a number of distinct categories:
- Debt Bloggers – start their blog to have a journal of debt repayments, *or* to be accountable to an audience
- Reformed Debt Bloggers – used to be in debt, now write about how to escape it
- Gurus – Unclear what their real background is, but have no problem dishing out advice
- Living the Lifestyle – Bloggers who haven't been in debt and can explain how they've stayed in the black
- Lifestyle Bloggers – Staying out of debt while pursuing a dream to travel or otherwise pursue a non 9-5 career
- Wildcard Bloggers (I toss myself in this category) – Big picture topics (politics, economics) intermixed with personal finance advice. Not so much of the personal connection.
- Motivational Bloggers – Usually of the 'earn more money' type. Often they have quite impressive results
- Early Retirement Bloggers – On the path to freedom at impressively low ages (or related: those who have retired but continue to blog)
- Frugality Bloggers – How can you escape a common situation with the most money intact?
Isn't specialization grand (Please add to this list if you think of more, anyone!)? I think your target is probably the top two on the list, if I'm understanding correctly!
I'm definitely a lifestyle blogger. And my networth is around $70K
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8:15 am
February 14, 2012
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bax
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My net worth is rather difficult to measure. I mean, I'm a luminous being, infused with the soul of a dragon bringing the messages down from the celestial radio onto a blog for the millions of souls yearning to be just a little better.
So, I guess I'm worth "rutabaga."
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9:32 am
February 14, 2012
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Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog
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mine's between 10k-100k. I'd probably call myself a 'debt blogger' because i started blogging to keep track of getting out of my debt, though it's morphed into something more than that at this point.
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10:12 am
February 14, 2012
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JT_McGee
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Now I know I can call myself a wild card blogger. :D Good categories above. I would include "investing" too, since there are quite a few purely investing sites in the Yakezie sphere
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4:51 pm
February 14, 2012
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Poor Student
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I am a lifestyle blogger (no debt and trying to stay that way) and an early retirement blogger (ASAP). My net worth is about even.
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10:26 pm
February 14, 2012
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Edward Antrobus
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PK,
Thanks for the categories. My original exposure to PF blogs were motivational types. So that's what I tend to think of when I think of PF blogs.
I've also read a lot of lifestyle blogs, but I tend to rebel against those, because it totally isn't my scene.
I'm still a bit uncertain about what my exact category would be. Part debt blogger, I guess. Motivational, wild card (although I will always put a personal connection my posts where I can).
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I'm looking for editors, beta-readers, and some demographic research for my upcoming novel, Once Upon a Saturn Moon. If you like reading soft sci-fi thrillers, maybe with a touch of romance thrown in, you can find more information at http://seampublishing.com/once…..aturn-moon
If You Can Read, You Can Cook – http://www.ifyoucanread.com | Think you can't cook? If you can read this sentence, then you can.
SEAM Publishing – http://www.seampublishing.com | eBook formatting and publishing service
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8:20 am
February 15, 2012
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Love the categories, although as with everything else in my life I can't pick just one! (Although I The Debt Myth does clearly fit into reformed debt blogger.)
As far as the original question goes, my answer is $100,000-$1,000,000
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9:18 am
February 15, 2012
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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Mine is somewhere between $100,000-$1,000,000. I honestly don't know exactly where on that spectrum though. If you don't count the house, it is probably around $150,000 in cash, stock investments, and retirement accounts. With the house equity, it's about $225,000 I think. I will do a net worth update soon to make myself get the numbers out of my head, lol.
As for the categories, I would guess that Budgeting in the Fun Stuff is a mix of these two:
- Living the Lifestyle – Bloggers who haven't been in debt and can explain how they've stayed in the black
- Lifestyle Bloggers – Staying out of debt while pursuing a dream to travel or otherwise pursue a non 9-5 career
I hope that doesn't mean you'll avoid BFS, lol.
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12:58 am
February 16, 2012
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Fig (Figuring Money Out)
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My net worth is currently negative (sad) but rapidly approaching a positive number. I'm super excited!
I'm definitely a debt blogger at the moment but hopefully won't forever be. I'd hate to have debt define me and the blog forever.
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10:50 am
February 16, 2012
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ontargetcoach
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Net worth- positive 10-100K, but dropping. I'm almost 34.
@PK I like these categories. I think I'm trying to find my category voice, so I'm wild card until then.
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11:06 am
February 16, 2012
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Tushar @ Everything Finance
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My answer is $100,000-$1,000,000
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Tushar @ Everything Finance
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11:16 am
February 16, 2012
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Invest It Wisely
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$100,000-$1,000,000 (what a broad range ;))
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11:17 am
February 16, 2012
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Invest It Wisely
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And since I opened up the can of worms, I'll just say that I recently crossed over into that range last year. Let's hope I can stay there and keep going forward with my new jump :)
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11:19 am
February 16, 2012
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Invest It Wisely
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iam1percent said:
Well, I started my blog because I hit $1,000,000 in net worth at age 34.
However, people may be calculating it differently. I include my primary residence. It may also be interesting to know people's ages with their net worth.
I Am 1 Percent
Follow me on Twitter
Like me on Facebook
Very cool site title and very nice age to hit that figure. :)
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11:25 am
February 16, 2012
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Invest It Wisely
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PK @ DQYDJ said:
I think you can probably separate PF bloggers into a number of distinct categories:
- Debt Bloggers – start their blog to have a journal of debt repayments, *or* to be accountable to an audience
- Reformed Debt Bloggers – used to be in debt, now write about how to escape it
- Gurus – Unclear what their real background is, but have no problem dishing out advice
- Living the Lifestyle – Bloggers who haven't been in debt and can explain how they've stayed in the black
- Lifestyle Bloggers – Staying out of debt while pursuing a dream to travel or otherwise pursue a non 9-5 career
- Wildcard Bloggers (I toss myself in this category) – Big picture topics (politics, economics) intermixed with personal finance advice. Not so much of the personal connection.
- Motivational Bloggers – Usually of the 'earn more money' type. Often they have quite impressive results
- Early Retirement Bloggers – On the path to freedom at impressively low ages (or related: those who have retired but continue to blog)
- Frugality Bloggers – How can you escape a common situation with the most money intact?
Isn't specialization grand (Please add to this list if you think of more, anyone!)? I think your target is probably the top two on the list, if I'm understanding correctly!
I think you forgot about the angry bloggers and professional bloggers. The angry ones shock to see results, and the professional are more in blogging as a business and buy & sell blogs to expand their empire.
I'm not sure where I'd fit in here. I've dabbled a bit in everything. My overall focus is probably wildcard/early retirement/motivational
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