I wouldn’t pay for it. I have really high expectations for the content I pay for, and yours doesn’t meet those. Your articles usually contain spelling/language errors and aren’t well organized or thought out. Your voice is too conversational and self important.

That being said, your basic ideas are thought provoking and interesting. I enjoy the fact that you don’t push out an overwhelming amount of content.

I’ll keep reading, I just wouldn’t pay.

I might pay for it once; anything more and it might push back my early retirement by a couple days.

It’s a great blog, but I wouldn’t pay to read it. There is a TON of entertaining (and free) info online – if you started charging, I would move on to another site.

I’m fickle that way, but I suspect most people are.

I wouldn’t pay for a newsletter, but you could do pretty good for yourself if you did some marketing and ranked on the front page of Google for a word like retirement (early retirement you could probably do without too much effort, and you already rank for early retirement extreme). Monetize properly and you could be raking in 6 figures a year – that’s like enough to eat off of forever.

You cater to the extremely frugal.

There is no way your audience will pay for the newsletter.

The occasional big spender that visits your site will be more likely to buy a newsletter on getting rich quick.

Jacob, in last few days I have read through all your posts on this blog. Although we disagree on investment choices, our lifestyles are very similar and your story is very encouraging for me. However, because I live way below my means I would not be interested in paying for your opinions. Why would I pay when I can find the same or similar “friends” at simpleliving.net for free?

Ditto what Rosie said.

Mega dittos. We are frugal bunch and would not pay, but we sure do enjoy your writing…

I love the content and the writing, but I wouldn’t pay. I’m too frugal. However, I am completely with you, if you decide to monetize the blog.

Mirroring what DJ said, I would also contribute a small one-time sum via PayPal as a thank you for the value I’ve already received from your writing. I have done this several times for other blogs I read regularly.

But, I know you are wary of the tax consequences

I wouldn’t pay (very much) money, because I wouldn’t wish that kind of pressure and expectation on you.

Though depending on the topic of content, I would (irregularly) trade and barter for your work.

I’d like to illuminate the snap reaction of most of the 20+ commentators to this post. Not even one individual took you up on the “if so, how much” open-ended query. Although I said I wouldn’t pay very much, I’d like to break the folks here out of their trend and offer to pay you USD1.00 cash for 40-50 pages of your content quarterly. ;-\

If you can condense your basic philosophy into about 100-200 pages, I would look into a book deal or even try to self-publish in paper or eBook form.

I feel that people are more likely pay for tightly-focused material that they can reference.

I would definitely pay, especially when you’re (still) sharing recommendations on books, financial strategies, and strategies to be independent. Reading your blog saves me an enormous amount of time, and honestly, there’s no other alternative on the web. Only some goofies, who are pursuing an on line income writing a blog, selling ebooks and letting the difficult stuff out. I’m so done with this, and I prefer to pay for a quality source, like I pay for my daily paper.