my 20-something coworkers and I started our blog, We’re Rich!, because we realized we don’t know enough — or indeed, anything — about money and it was time for this to change. Little did we know there’s such a great online community of PF blogs out there.

since we’re all in different life stages — one of us is married, one of us is in a long-term relationship and I just moved to Chicago not long ago and have a 4-month relationship — we’ve got lots of topics to cover and stories to tell.

we hope you’ll visit once in a while and take a look!

http://wesorich.blogspot.com

happy weekend,
paydaze

Money – I can say I’m interested enough in it that I’ve made a career of it. Before I even knew what I wanted to go to school for, I was always interested in what my aunts and uncles had to say about investments and retirement plans over the Xmas dinner table. By the time I was 16, my uncle had drilled into my head the “the magic of compound interest”. I took it to heart. He’s the guy that all the other relatives (my parents included) would speculate about when he left the room for a moment… how many millions was he worth?! LOL A true self-made millionaire. I was inspired. And I learned that being truly wealthy was not that hard, if you played your cards right. My uncle explained that it was just about playing the cards… knowing the tricks.

I find the world of personal finance fascinating. I also find it extremely frustrating to see people close around me so frustrated with THEIR money. I think’s it’s so easy and uncomplicated to have a relatively happy, money-worry-free life, but some people have tiny bad habits that kill them over time. I have always been responsible with handling money, and often tried to offer good advice. Now, however, because I belong to a professional body, my advice has to be quite limited and I only talk about money when people directly ask questions.

Now, without sounding boastful, I have to say that my boyfriend and I have done well together financially. Meaning, we save enough, spend enough, and have fun. The one aspect I hate is, oftentimes others resent the fact we do well (meanwhile, they continue to spend frivilously, make poor choices, etc…. but they don’t see that part), or we are faced with the problem of people asking for money or “loans”. Remember all my speculating relatives? Well, this time its it’s us under speculation. Especially my bf’s family. They are very open with each other, ask very personal, direct questions, and I always battle with being straight up and open, and wanting to say “none of your business!”. On one hand, it’s none of their concern. On the other, I hope to be of help and inspiration.

As much of a hobby and career I find money to be, I also am learning it brings a myrid of complications to relationships, draws up feelings amongst people, etc, so I try to keep talk of it on the down-low to people I know. Hence, my love for blogs developed!