Here’s a fine revelation from PBS NewsHour: All the financial advice anyone needs fits on a 3×5 notecard!
Just so. Herein lies the great mystification of the personal-finance blogging boom. There’s only so much you can say when you assay to advise and pontificate about dealing with money. Yet there are still hundreds of us, all nattering on and on about…yeah. The contents of an index card.
Really, how many ways can you say these things? After awhile, if you’re a PF blogger you realize you’re repeating yourself ad nauseam. Many of the original bunch tired of it and sold their sites, sometimes for a decent price. Others, like FaM, started writing about new topics. I see Frugal Scholar has announced that her site will no longer focus on frugality but “other things I’m writing about.”
There are so many other things. And most of them are far more interesting. Than money, I mean.
Politics, for example. Cultural issues…especially in a culture that really doesn’t regard caring for children and a home as productive work. Books. Food. Travel. Real estate. Gardening. Dogs. Cats. The hilarious folly of the passing scene. Life, the universe, and all that.
Yep! I realize that it’s all new to SOMEBODY, but I’ve been writing about this stuff since January 2007.
My new goal is to find a way to keep making it new to some, but also looking for a way to make money that isn’t just about personal finance.