10 Questions is your chance to promote your blog! I want to hear from you! Just make sure you read the rules below. If you don’t read the rules, the dinosaurs will eat you and no one wants that:
Current schedule
Yikes, a lot of you have signed up already. Don’t despair. I’m thinking about publishing these more often and moving up the dates. Stay tuned.
Up next:
Shoot me an email to reserve a spot: mr1500 at 1500days dot com
Already Done
- 8/31: Me. Yes, I answered my own questions.
- 9/14: Planting Our Pennies
- 9/25: Burrito Bowl Diaries
- 9/26: Burning Desire for FIRE
- 9/27: Go With Less
- 10/12: IQ Calculators
- 10/26: Halt Catch Fire
- 11/9: Lenny, The Blog Proofreader
- 12/7: Freddy Smidlap
- 12/21: The Frug
- 1/11: The Crusher (anonymous reader)
- 1/25: Winning Personal Finance
- 2/1: Crispy Cabbage
- 2/15: Aardvark Advisor
- 3/7: rich & REGULAR
- 3/14: Retire Before Dad
- 4/4: A Purple Life
- 4/25: Vital Dollar
- 5/16: Life Outside The Maze
- 5/23: Downsize Your 2080
- 6/13: Why We Money
- 7/11: Abandoned Cubicle
- 7/18: The Finn Mindset
- 8/9: Rags To Nicer Rags
- 8/15: Cooking Up FIRE
- 8/22: Financially Fit Kid
- 10/17: Stoj Finance
- 1/9/2020: The Fioneers
- 1/16: Sport of Money
- 2/6: Five Year FIRE Escape
- 2/13: PF Geeks
Rules
- Overview/questions: See the list below.
- Pick some (at least 10) and go nuts. I’d appreciate a word count of at least 600 (not including my questions). Bonus points if you answer some of the ones in the Big Questions category.
- Don’t phone it in. Example:
- Don’t do this:
- Question: What is your favorite tool for managing your money?
- Answer: Personal Capital.
- Do this:
- Question: What is your favorite tool for managing your money?
- Answer: I like Personal Capital because of the Fee Analyzer feature. The Fee Analyzer showed me that I would have paid hundreds of thousands in fees over the next 4 decades. I have since moved my money to low-fee, index funds.
- Don’t do this:
- Don’t be boring: Let your voice shine through. If you phone it in, I won’t publish it. As my buddy, Freddy Smidlap likes to say, “Just be interesting.” If you need to, have a couple beers before you take on this assignment.
- Links: This is your chance to promote yourself. Don’t be shy about including links to your own material or anything else that is relevant.
- Your photos are awesome! Photos are a great way to enhance your story! I’d much rather have amateur photos from your phone than some you “borrowed” from the internet.
- I’d appreciate if you can compress your photos. The best photos are 750 pixels wide, landscape, and in JPG format. I use Pixlr. If you don’t know how to do this, I’ll take care of it.
- Spellcheck and grammar: Please check your spelling. And, if you don’t know the difference between their, there and they’re, I’m going to be very angry.
- Submitting: The best way to submit to is just to copy and paste it from WordPress (no HTML) and send to me. Attach the pictures in the email. Send to mr1500 at 1500days . com.
- Promote: I’d appreciate a mention on your blog or a tweet once your post goes live.
Questions
Please answer at least 10 or more of the questions below. Don’t feel obligated to respond to them all. Answer the ones that are most interesting to you. Don’t phone it in! Remember that I’m looking for at least 600 of your words!
And is there something you’re itching me to ask that I left out? Throw it in!
Your Internet Ramblings
- There are approximately 476,492,292,928 personal finance blogs last time I checked. Why should we read yours?
- What is one post that you’ve written that you wish would have gone viral?
- Why did you start your blog?
- What has surprised you about blogging?
- What is part of your blog that you wish you could do better?
- Is there anything else you’d like to promote?
You
- Where do you live? Do you love it, hate it or just meh.
- Do you rent or own? What are your thoughts on home ownership?
- What do you do for a living?
- How old are you and do you have a family?
- Transportation (how do you get around): car, train, bus, bike or VTOL.
- How do you stay fit? (If you’re one of those crazy Crossfit people, please don’t tell me that I suck because I don’t do it. This has happened.)
Financial Independence, Investing, and Money
FIRE
- Is your goal financial independence? If so, where are you on the journey?
- What is your FI number? How close are you?
- Are you leanFIRE or fatFIRE or fartFIRE?
- Do you tell others of your FIRE plans or are you in the closet?
Investing
- You rub a magic lamp and an evil genie pops out and says this: “You must pick one, specific investment to have all your money in for the next decade!” What do you pick?
- Evil genies aside, what is your investing strategy? Stocks? Index funds?? Real estate??? Crypto????
- What is your favorite money management tool? (Yes, you can include your affiliate link.)
Money
- What is the best thing you ever bought? The worst?
- Do you track your spending? If so, how?
- What is your worst money mistake?
- What is your splurge? Don’t be shy. Mine set me back $45,000.
- Your best friend tells you that he just got a raise at work and is going to buy a new car to celebrate. His current car is in perfect working order. How do you react?
Children
- What is one unique thing you’re doing to raise your kids to be financially smart?
- What did your parents do to raise you to be financially smart?
- If your 18-year-old child told you this: “Parents, I want to go to a $250,000 school and study doorknob design,” what would you tell him or her?
- Do you pay your kids an allowance? Why or why not?
Travel
- Ideal vacation: road trip, beach, mountains, forest or city?
- What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?
- What travel destination is highest on your bucket list?
Big Questions
- How is the world going to be better because you lived?
- What is one thing you firmly believed 5 years ago that you no longer believe?
- What is one thing you believe that most others do not?
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
- What was the worst or best phase of your life?
- What do people misunderstand about you?
- If you have a magical power that allowed you to change one set of beliefs in others, what would you choose?
- What is your greatest strength and/or weakness?
- What is something you read that changed your life?
Random Silliness
- If you were a dinosaur, what kind would you be and why?
- Name one living person that you look up to. Tell us why.
- Elon Musk: Crazy megalomaniac or a brilliant guy who is changing the world?
- Favorite beer? Favorite pizza place? (this is a throwback to the original series)
- What album can you listen to straight through? Best album of all time?
- Who is your favorite leader in business today?
- What is the best movie you’ve seen recently?
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