Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement
Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.
Save 3-6 months of expenses in a Rainy Day fund. Know why? Cause it is going to rain, and you aren't the exception.
In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.
Find $50 a month for savings. No excuses!
Do you have an emergency fund? If not, build one - aim for three months of expenses to start, then boost it to six. It will ease your anxiety and get you out of a potential jam.
College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.
I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.
The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.
I got a piggy bank and the goal was to fill it up.
