Like a month or so ago, we spent WAY too much money at the casino and I posted about it. Of course, that’s normal for me—I share it all. Later that day, I got an email from my MIL saying that we could have bought a plane ticket to visit her instead of wasting it at the casino.

Now, almost every time I hear from her, she goes on and on about it and how we could come visit her instead. OMG! It’s driving me nuts.

There are definitely lots of pitfalls to blogging anonymously (e.g. declining newspaper/magazine and other media involvement) but I wouldn’t change it for a thing.

I disclose too much information on my blog.

I think you should tell your BF about it though- it would be hard hiding something like that from my SO.

So far, I haven’t posted anything controversial or offensive. I probably won’t discuss my family much, except for a couple of posts about what I learned (and didn’t) growing up. Since I’ve already had these conversations with my parents, I don’t think they’d be offended reading them. 🙂

But I understand – I’m not sure I would want anyone I work with (or who works for me, I’m in management) to read about my financial issues!

I decided that being able to connect with people IRL and direct them to my blog was a big priority for me when I first started out. I’m also interested in cross-promoting different projects I’m working on and that would be hard to compartmentalize with anonymity. This does limit what I can write about, but since I’m more focused on tips and general lessons learned, and not so much about the specifics of my financials, it works for me. I know for other people not being anonymous would greatly reduce the amount of information they could divulge.