“And every one of them has an iphone with an unlimited data plan, a netflix account, eat out all the time and wouldn’t know a savings account if it bit them in the butt.”
Not all of us.
I’m a stay-at-home mom of eight, I sell eggs and quilts, and out of my egg & quilt money I buy things for the kids and over ten years I’ve still managed to put $66,000 of my own money in a 457 plan and literally today my savings at a bank just topped $10,000 for the first time.
It doesn’t sound like much but it’s important to me because it’s money I earned and did not squander on foolishness like buying the latest phone every year or so.
That is actually very impressive. You would have made a great managing director I bet. You have skills!
Kudos to you ma’am.
Someone once asked the father of Wilbur and Orville Wright (who got wealthy, but not filthy rich) how much money was enough.
He said, “Enough that you’re not a burden to anyone else.”