50k club and truly can’t believe it
For context, 26y/o started investing my very first $10 back in 2019 on Acorns after watching a YouTube finance guy talk about it. I was a broke college dropout with $2k in savings and working all the time just to spend almost everything I made on BS. I knew I wanted to make a change but my parents were in 100s of thousands of credit card debt my whole life (severely financially illiterate) and I had no one to guide me.
It’s now 7 years later and I’ve learned so much about personal finance and the basic principles of investing. I’ve learned to take the emotions out of savings and investing from my paycheck and just embraced the automated investing tools that most of the major fintech apps have now. Acorns is only a small piece of my portfolio today and I’ve turned off all round-ups for the last few years (although I loved using it back in the day). But I still keep the account going with a daily $15 investment just to remind myself how worthwhile it was to take that first step towards financial stability/independence and watch this simple ETF filled portfolio grow into more money than I had ever seen before in just a few years.
And to anyone who just invested their first $10, $100, or even just hit $1,000,000… keep going!!!
I’ll see you at $100k :)