Semiretired2008
Recycles dryer sheets
Everyone had to start at some point in their life - when was your turning moment or did you start from the get go as a saver?
Myself - in and out over my life. I started when I was twelve. My father asked me if I wanted an allowance - yep yep yep to that one... He took me down to Sears - bought me a push mower and a gas can, which he filled up and then said "Here Push". 1st he made me pay him back and then he made me put 25c for every dollar I earned into a jar. I opened my first bank account at age 16 with $2,500 worth of quarters (pre 1964, which I wish I had held onto)...
I lost and or spent deeply into my savings two or three times in my life when I was young (first car, first house down payment, divorce, etc.) and it took me until age 40 or there abouts to be truly debt free and was able to enter semi retirement around age 53... Now I am teetering on full retirement - been on vacation for almost the last year testing it out...
When did you start - there has to be some really good stories on this board?
Myself - in and out over my life. I started when I was twelve. My father asked me if I wanted an allowance - yep yep yep to that one... He took me down to Sears - bought me a push mower and a gas can, which he filled up and then said "Here Push". 1st he made me pay him back and then he made me put 25c for every dollar I earned into a jar. I opened my first bank account at age 16 with $2,500 worth of quarters (pre 1964, which I wish I had held onto)...
I lost and or spent deeply into my savings two or three times in my life when I was young (first car, first house down payment, divorce, etc.) and it took me until age 40 or there abouts to be truly debt free and was able to enter semi retirement around age 53... Now I am teetering on full retirement - been on vacation for almost the last year testing it out...
When did you start - there has to be some really good stories on this board?