I’ve finally figured out why I get so annoyed at most PF Bloggers. I often find most of the advice given too simplistic, unrealistic or contrary to common sense but those aren’t the reason I get annoyed. I get annoyed because there aren’t enough PF Bloggers out there that I could actually consider “peer” bloggers. Being frugal is something that I’ve been way beyond for a while now; My money calculations always favor TIME over MONEY. I won’t spend an hour looking to save $10 on something because I don’t want to lose an hour. And while I’m sure someone will say that I’m wasting $200/month in dry cleaning or $100/month in lawn service or squandering nickels and dimes here and there, I really don’t need to be lectured on TVM calculations; Plain and simple, I don’t want to spend hours ironing pants and shirts or hours out in the hot sun mowing my lawn. I’ve already done the calculations and concluded that I want to OUTSOURCE these functions.
Today, I’m paying homage to key PF Bloggers that, in my opinion, make the PF Blogger world a great place.
What makes these PF Bloggers great?

A few things:
First, these folks have FOCUS. They have a passion for what they do and you can read it in almost every post they write. Some go to great details to focus on details, analysis and most importantly EXPRESS THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT THOUGHTS. These bloggers don’t tend to dwell on political correctness or trying to appeal to mass audience too much.

Second, in addition to having focus, these bloggers are keen on achieving greater wealth through their own investment strategies and blog about it appropriately. Their primary goal is to make MORE money sometimes taking aggressive risks and sometimes being cautious. They tend to have a balanced approach.

Lastly, these bloggers don’t regurgitate recycled material over and over again. There is always something interesting to read at these sites and I often come away learning something new or seeing things from a different perspective.
It is no surprise that many of these bloggers have high net worths and I’m guessing that if there were some way to rank all PF Bloggers by net worth, this group would be in the top 10% if not top 5%. I don’t have any way to back that up but I simply get a sense that they are the top of the class “A” bloggers.

So to the following, I want to say THANK YOU for your blogging efforts. Although I don’t comment too frequently on other blogs, I have periodically stopped by to post one or two here and there. Without further a due:

http://www.1stmillionat33.com/

http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/

http://www.thesunsfinancialdiary.com/

http://trishasblogsite.blogspot.com/

http://redhotresources.blogspot.com/

http://moneyshaker.blogspot.com/

An honorable mention to:

http://oneguysinvestments.com/

http://www.gracecheng.com/

http://www.peridotcapitalist.com/

http://bankdeals.blogspot.com/

http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/

And a very special mention to http://www.pfblogs.org which I came to love and become somewhat addicted. I’m sorry to say however, that I’ll be dropping it from my bookmark list and won’t be visiting the site too often any more. The site has become too cluttered with “Headliners“, “Finance 101” and “Debtor” blogs. Where there were perhaps 100 of these 6 months ago, there now seem to be 300 to 400. I also frequently get the dreaded “PF BLOG DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE” every time I click onto the next page on the site.
I’m sure that eventually the site will be improved and I’ll come back but it’s just too time consuming to find good content for me these days. Remember how I favor TIME over MONEY? If I could pay for improvements I’d do it! I feel like I’m panning for a nugget of gold through 400 tons of sand when sifting through the links at PFBlogs but I still love the site it’s just eating up too much of my time!