Burn Out & Privacy: The end of We’re In Debt

In case you hadn’t noticed, An Emer­gency Fund is writ­ten by the same author &mdash me &mdash who used to blog at We’re In Debt. We’re In Debt came to a pretty abrupt end for a cou­ple of rea­sons. This is that story.

Towards the mid­dle of 2008, I was work­ing on a project that required many hours and a lot of travel. Dur­ing that time, I was also writ­ing for We’re In Debt. The posts dur­ing that time reeked of poor writ­ing and were, well, pretty short.

Anonymity gone

Also dur­ing this time, it was dis­cov­ered who we were. This was brought to our atten­tion by the few indi­vid­u­als that we were most wanted to not find out about the site. Our sit­u­a­tion at the time was embar­rass­ing. We were ashamed of the finan­cial trou­bles that we our­selves got into.

The goal of We’re In Debt wasn’t to ask for help, but rather to help oth­ers so that they wouldn’t find them­selves in the same pit of debt that we had found our­selves in.

Com­bined with the burnout, los­ing our anonymity was the straw that broke our backs. So we pulled the site. A few months after pulling the site down, we sold the domain. We’re In Debt was a phase of our lives that we wanted to forget.

The future

We’re still not proud of that phase of our lives, but it is an impor­tant phase that can be used by oth­ers as a cau­tion­ary tale. So we’ve re-posted all of the con­tent from the orig­i­nal We’re In Debt site here at An Emer­gency Fund.

We’re also get­ting back into writ­ing about per­sonal finance. Over time, we’ll write more about where we’ve been and where we’re going. No more daily posts though.

Tagged as: burn out, privacy