Blogger Gossip

[Last updated: Dec 31st, 2018]

• Route To Retire has officially retired, and next year, he and his family are off to Panama.
• Rogue Dad, M.D. wrote a viral post on Twitter with over 700,000 likes and 150,000 retweets!
• Go Curry Cracker was featured on ABC's World News Tonight. :)
• I Dream of FIRE gets featured on CNN about his year-long vacation.
• Cait Flanders get mentioned in the New York Times! :)
• Grant (Millennial Money) just finished his book manuscript.
• Mr. and Mrs. XYZ are growing a girl and taking a mini-retirement!
• Cait Flanders has officially stepped away from Rockstar to pursue bigger and better things; for example, her book that was just released!
• Slow Dad sold his blog's domain name (cantankerous.life) and started a new blog at SomeThingsDontChange.com. He calls it his "blogging rebirth" (of sorts)
• Mr. and Mrs. ONL can officially wake up without alarm clocks :)
• ESI Money (John) buys Rockstar Finance.
• Dividend Growth Investor gets a shout in Jack Bogle's latest book!
• Andy Hill and family officially pay off their $400,000 home!
• Steve @ ThinkSaveRetire lands on rapper Akon's Facebook page :)
• Ben Carlson from A Wealth of Commons Sense starts a podcast: Animal Spirits
• Mrs. ONL and Kara Perez starts a podcast: The Fairer Cents
• Mrs. & Mr. ONL reveal their faces and identity :)
• Dads Dollars Debts lost their home - and all possessions - in the Tubb's fire :(
• Mrs. Frugalwoods just gave a sneak peek of her new book: Meet The Frugalwoods!
• J.D. Roth bought back his old site - Get Rich Slowly!!
• Shannon McLay from Financially Blonde raises $1.5 Million to build out more Financial Gyms!
• Retire Before Dad was just liberated from his job (but is not ready for retirement!)
• Marc from The Self Employed Movement is saying goodbye to his blog
• Mrs. ONL (and Mr. ONL) put in their work notices that they're retiring (super early!)
• Derek from Life And My Finances celebrates 7 years blogging
• Savvy Financial Latina just resigned from her job due to bullying (GOOD FOR YOU!!!)
• HaltCatchFire turns $$$ bloggers into Memes
• My Sons Father turns $$$ bloggers into Legos
• Jai Catalano from Beyond Debt landed a role in an upcoming movie
• Brent from Debt Files releases his folk/rock album: East Van Eye
• Carl from 1500 Days gets called out by Robert Kiyosaki! (And not in a good way)
• Frugal Bagel just came out of the closet as being trans
• Derek shut down How Do I Money and picked up a 9-5 (we'll miss you, man!!)
• Mr Free at 33 is moving to Chiang Mai, Thailand and becoming a Dividend Expat!
• Mrs. Frugalwoods is pregnant with baby #2 :)
• Tim from Canadian Dream Free At 45 just had his last day of work
• Lindsay from Notorious D.E.B.T. now has a net worth of $0.00! :)
• Amanda from Centsibly Rich sold her blog :(
• Ruth and Prudence sold their blog, Fruclassity.com!
• Crystal from Budgeting In The Fun Stuff was offered $20k for her blog - she said no
• Derek from Life And My Finances was offered $60,000 for his blog - he turned it down
• Claire from Wantless just kissed all her debt goodbye
• Ruth from Fruclassity launches her children's book: Ella Builds A Wall
• Andrew from Listen Money Matters quit his day job to do LMM full time
• Kayla Sloan is now credit card debt free!
• Sarah from Couple of Sense just welcomed home baby Ava :)
• Nicola from The Frugal Cottage is pregnant!
• Melanie from Mindfully Spent just cleared off all remaining consumer debt :)
• Harmony from Creating My Kaleidoscope just had BOGO babies!
• A Legosaurus Rex eats J. Money's arm off, and then moves to Physician on FIRE's leg
• The Bare Budget Guy is packing his bags and moving to Nicaragua.
• Peter from Bible Money Matters gets a visit from Dave Ramsey on his blog!!!
• Super Millennial is about to quit his job to work for himself :)
• Broke Millennial's book just dropped!
• Vic from Dad Is Cheap just welcomed in a beautiful baby boy named Logan :)
• Bridget from Money After Graduation is expecting a baby girl!
• Physician on Fire just downgraded his full-time job to part-time on his way to FIRE.
• Carl from 1500Days.com is now free from a 9-5 :)
• Jason Butler paid off all of his credit card debt
• Ready For Zero debt payoff site shut down??! Whaaa?
• Claudia from TwoCupHouse.com is now 100% debt-free!
• Physician On FIRE and White Coat Investor just got together in Blog Matrimony! Nice!
• Elephant Eater just quit his job. For life :)
• Matt and Daniel from TheResumeGap.com got rejected for Reality TV ;)
• The 1500th day just came for Carl of 1500Days.com - that was fast!
• The "Ladies in Media" fundraising $10,000 for charity: water :)
• Catherine from PluggedInDebt.com is calling it quits. Wish her well on her life post-blog!
• Sarah from TheYachtless.com is stopping blogging about $$$ and will now be writing about her journey "figuring out how to become politically engaged, how to better understand the issues, how to fight for causes [she] believes in, and how to be a better citizen."
• Robert Berger from DoughRoller.net just bought up old school ConsumerismCommentary.com (once sold for millions of dollars!!), as well as FiveCentNickel.com (also sold for a million+ back in the day). Let's wish him luck in reviving them!!
• Robert from TheCollegeInvestor.com just launched a college scholarship!
• Derek Olsen of HowDoIMoney.com just had a baby girl!
• Mad Money Monsters reveal a pic of themselves :)
• OurNextLife.com paid of their house! (In 5 years!)
• Grant just got offered $45,000 for his domain, MillennialMoney.com!
• Jessica Moorhouse quit her job to pursue self-employment!
• Athena has cancer - ack! Help her kick cancers butt and fund her surgery!
• Jason Fieber from MrFreeat33.com is now offering free financial coaching
• Andy from FiscallyFree.com just kinda-sorta-for-real retired early!

Old gossip:

• Steve from ThinkSaveRetire.com officially "retires!" At the age of 35!!
• LBeeAndTheMoneyTree.com is now --> FinancialBestLife.com
• Kara sold FromFrugaltoFree.com and has started #bravelygo!
• The P.I.E.s decide to quit blogging :( (UPDATE: They're back! Haha...)
• Mystery Money Man landed his first side hustle :)
• JL Collins gets an email from THE Jack Bogle himself! As in the founder of Vanguard!
• Dr. Amanda Liu, aka Dr. Wise Money, recently passed away :( You can see a wonderful tribute to her here. (This is the first time we've learned of a financial blogger passing away. So sad!)
• Erin from BrokeMillennial.com just became a full-time freelancer :)
• Claudia from TwoCupHouse.com pays off her mortgage! And celebrates in style.
• Taylor from TheFreedomFromMoney.com got engaged!! (And SHE did the proposing!)
• PhysicianOnFire and MMM both donated $100,000 on their birthdays! Coincidentally!
• J. Money turns down a cool million to follow his heart (*gasp*)
• TrueTightwad.com changed its name to --> MappedOutMoney.com (I preferred the original ;))
• Mrs. Groovy from FreedomIsGroovy.com retires! Early!
• Canadian-Dream-Free-at-45.com hits 10 years of blogging and shares what he's learned
• Frugaling.org sold :( Pauline Paquin bought it, and Sam's goodbye post can be found here. (Sam can also still be reached on Twitter if you want to stay in touch: @SamLustgarten)
• Evan is back to being the owner/blogger of MyJourneytoMillions.com! After selling it the other month! Haha... Nice.
• ESI Money retires at 52! Congrats man!
• Ed Mills from MillionaireEducator.com crosses the $1 Million Net Worth mark - woo!
• Melanie Lockert and Cait Flanders were on Oprah.com!! (And say traffic wasn't that amazing ;))
• Evan from MyJourneytoMillions.com shares his last net worth, and then quits the blog! Or rather, sells it to Craig. (UPDATE: Evan is back to being the new owner and blogger there again!)
• Mr. FireStation steps into early retirement!
• Jason Fieber from DividendMantra.com fame is back! --> MrFreeat33.com
• Matt and Daniel from TheResumeGap.comp quit their jobs and start an epic road trip!
• Steve and Courtney from ThinkSaveRetire.com move into an Airstream! and now have a blog about RV living as well --> AStreaminLife.com
• Frugalwoods bought a homestead!
• Ninja from PunchDebtinTheFace.com sells his blog after 8 years on the scene! One of my favorite $$ blogs back in the day – you’ll be missed, brotha.
• Freedom 35 Blog put together a list of bloggers’ Myers-Briggs personalities in a chart, haha...
• Jason Fieber sells DividendMantra.com! And then it crashes miserably :( On the plus side, Jason's back to blogging again - yayy!!! --> MrFreeat33.com
• Trent Hamm sold TheSimpleDollar.com for around a Million (2011 / exact figure not public)
• Flexo aka Luke aka Harlan sold ConsumerismCommentary.com for over a Million (2011 / exact figure not public)
• Jim Wang sold Bargaineering.com for over $3 MILLION!!! (2010 / skip to page F-36)
• FiveCentNickel.com was sold for a purported Million+ (2010)
• MoneyBlueBook.com was sold for a purported Million+ (2010)
• J.D. Roth sold his baby, GetRichSlowly.org, for over a Million (2009 / exact figure not public), then later BUYS IT BACK for pennies on the dollar!

********* [Have any good (public) gossip we missed? Let us know! // Photo cred: Zoe]