This week’s Carnival #63 of Personal Finance was hosted by 1stMillionAt33. It was a wonderful carnival of information sharing with around 50 quality posts. Our post Research – From Junk to Joy ! was published under the category Saving Tips. In the c…

If someone told me what I *should* be writing about, I’d simply say that if they don’t like what I *do* write about, there are other places they can go. Of course, if someone *asks* me to write about a topic and I feel I’m capable, I’ll probably do it… But for someone to tell me what I *should* be writing about takes a lot of nerve.

“Confession: I go crazy whenever I discover another finance blog updating the world on that person’s net worth. All of the pie charts, ratios and data comparisons, and growing bars indicated dollars held—AHH!”

Katie, no one is forcing to read anything you don’t want to read about. Move on. I post my net worth updates for mostly the same reason I track my finances in Quicken. Complaining about other people’s blogs on your own blog is pretty low class, and what I’d expect from a teeny-bopper blog. I am sorry if that offends.

Todd may be right in that it could be more beneficial to spend time developing sustaining income streams than to spend that time counting every penny spent, in fact I agree and have said as much, but that doesn’t mean that that’s what everyone should be writing about.

There are kinds of pf blogs I don’t particularly like to read. I just don’t read them, and my life is fine and not frustrating.

Sure, I keep looking for the next opportunity – but these don’t come every day, and in the interim, keeping my eye on the small stuff also counts. Besides, the skills gained through learning the small stuff help significantly in finding the next big one!

Aridni has a thought-provoking observation on financial bloggers – what do you focus on, and is that what you should be looking at?
Instead of counting the fluctuating pennies in our Coca Cola stocks, we should, as financial bloggers, be looking for a …