Well, it was four years ago today that I started Free Money Finance with a simple post that detailed what this site is about (followed the next day with why the site exists -- I guess I was already lacking for inspiration on day #2! Ha!)
Anyway, I quickly followed with reasons I thought someone should even take two seconds to listen to me as well as my promises to readers. I then got into the meat of my philosophy -- what I called the five principles -- as follows:
From there, the site grew simply by me writing about things I found interesting, what I was doing, etc. And 7,000 posts later, I'm still going.
I would be remiss if I didn't recognize those of you who comment here, and how you added to the success of this site. You've made it much, much better than I could have alone, and your contributions have not gone unnoticed. Thank you for them. I appreciate your efforts, thoughtfulness, and opinions (yes, even when they disagree with my own) more than I can put into words.
And for those of you interested in seeing some "highlights" of the past four years, feel free to browse my categories and archives as you like or re-read my top posts of 2008.
And as a reminder, this site still gives 100% of its profits to charities. We're just at $200,000 contributed, which is a very cool thing IMO -- that you can help others out by reading about finances. ;-)
Anyway, here's to another four years. Hopefully in that time we'll see the market correct, the economy get on its feet, and all of us growing our net worths at record pace! I look forward to traveling those times with you.
Congratulations! I've been enjoying Free Money Finance for a long time. Keep up the good work. We are in for unprecedented tough times.
Posted by: Rhea | April 05, 2009 at 08:11 AM
Congrats on a terrific blog and great info. This is the number one blog I check throughout the day.
Posted by: BobV | April 05, 2009 at 03:01 PM
Congrats on 4 years of writing, and more importantly for donating so much to charity. Which are your favorites, and why?
Posted by: RateNerd | April 05, 2009 at 05:24 PM
RateNerd --
Check the link above -- it lists all the charities I've given to.
Posted by: FMF | April 05, 2009 at 08:28 PM
Hey...where's the Sunday post?
Posted by: Norma | April 05, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Congratulations! :)
Posted by: Anastasia | April 06, 2009 at 01:16 AM
Norma --
This is it for this week. The "regular" Sunday post will be back next week.
Posted by: FMF | April 06, 2009 at 07:46 AM