Top 7 money-related goals on 43 Things

There are 7 money-related goals in the top 100 most popluar goals on 43 Things:

1. Save money 5,209 people
2. Buy a house 5,026 people
3. Get out of debt 4,200 people
4. Start my own business 3,436 people
5. Become financially independent 2,217 people
6. Win the lottery 1,873 people
7. Work because I like to, not because I have to 1,778 people

What kind of money-related goals do you have?

Comments

[Jeremy]

When I first saw the 43 Things zeitgeist, I wondered how the top goals would change over time as millions of people joined in the fun. It's amazing to see the collective aspirations of so many people aligning this way.

Fascinating that the overall vibe of 43 Things tends to be so positive -- even the money-related goals are fairly altruistic. You'd expect more greed to show up. Do people resist being more brutally honest about their desire for money in a public forum like this?

[Erik Benson]

That's an interesting question. We do deliberately try to infuse the site with a positive spirit, but the fact that they're public probably has a lot to do with it as well.

That said, there's also a lot of brutal honestly on the site as well.

1,288 people want to be rich:
http://www.43things.com/things/view/2331

422 people want to become a millionaire:
http://www.43things.com/things/view/3992

and 3 people are bold enough to want to get filthy stinking rich:
http://www.43things.com/things/view/115345

[Erik Kastner]

My money goals shift over time. I really like the concept of this blog :)

[Jeremy]

I was wondering about the overwhelmingly positive tone of most goals and entries a while back, so I went looking for "negative" goals to see how prevalent they were. Searching with overtly nasty words like hurt, revenge, punch, kick, damage, steal, break, and destroy was kind of fun, and yielded some hilarious entries, but overall, it seems like 43 Things folks are pretty earnest about their self-improvement, happiness and making the world a better place.

I'd be curious to hear how the Robot Co-Op tries to infuse positive spirit -- that would seem to be a very difficult task. Do you mean design choices like including the function for "cheers" without the corresponding "boos"?

[dwlt]

All the money goals, even the negative ones, are really all about security (I'm excluding the spammers that pop up from time to time).

As for the positive spirit of 43T, I think the largest contributing factor is the type of person that the site attracts. Certainly, there are a few arguments that break out every so often, but I can imagine how horrendous it would be if you could "boo" people! So while part of it stems from the simple clever structures put in place, the community as a whole is what makes the site so positive.