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I’m 33 yrs old and my wife and I just started saving money 3ish years ago. We paid off our debt and established and funded our emergency fund, and have begun our fund for building our forever home in a couple years.
I’ve been burnt out at work, I have bad arthritis in my neck and I’m a large guy that gets thrown on all the heavy lifting jobs (industrial electrician). I make decent money ($120k) and put $200 a week into our joint savings. Usually have $600 a month to spend on stuff but it always goes towards new tools for a house project or materials for a house project. It never ends.
I’ve never been on a vacation. I was going to take money out of my golfing fund ($75 a week to pay for my membership/balls/clubs/clothes throughout the year). To go to the US open for 2 days but once I saw the price tag I just felt like I didn’t deserve to spend that kind of money on myself for an experience. I can shake the guilt on material items, but even going on a 3 day golf trip for $1500 I for some reason feel guilty about it. Especially missing work and then in turn making it like a $2500 net loss.
How do people shake that? Again I’ve never taken time off work to go anywhere or do anything.
I’m curious to know how long it took others to hit the following investment milestones (from the point of their first dollar invested): $100k, $250k, 500k, 750k, 1m, 2m, 3m. I started investing February 2024. Hoping to hit 100k before 2026 is over. I turn 28 soon would love to get to $250k by 30 but probably too unrealistic
