This is my final account balance as I’m choosing to withdraw all of it and move it to Robin Hood to invest solely into VOO. Acorns helped kick start my investment journey 2 years ago and showed me how to remain calm during downturns. Now that I’m more experienced I’m moving on. Good luck to everyone.
Hello everyone, I’m 35 and just starting my investing journey. I’ve spent the last 15 years caring for my dad while he battled dementia, so I wasn’t in a position to save or invest before now. Is it too late to get started? I really appreciate any advice or suggestions for someone beginning at this stage.
This is my second time I have pull from my acorns. First tine pulled out 6k for car down payments this time pulled 75k for home down payment. It’s a little sad not being in the 6 figures, but i shall rebuild!
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 :)
-27m
Hi everyone.
I come across this group and after reading so many advices I was hoping if I can get some help too.
I just started taking my finances very serious. It was a very hard lesson which change my mindset about money completely over I was 24k in debt from a car loan and another 13k from credit cards which I didn’t have any left to save and do anything until now that I’m debt free. I lower my monthly expenses too and now im able to save $2600 a month after bills and everything if i work my regular 40 hours. I’m leaving for work out of state soon working 60 hours plus per diem I estimated around 10-11k a month after taxes and paying my bills at home.
I’m not trying to show off to anyone here. I’m just very transparent about my current situation. Every one here run their own race and every life situation is different.
After saying that. My question is
Should I just put everything into acorns?
Should I be looking for any particular stock?
So I be investing in a different platform?
Thank you
Just started on Acorns at 28 while helping take care of family financially. Trying to build better habits and think long term instead of just surviving paycheck to paycheck 😅
Started small, doing recurring investments + round-ups for now. Any advice from people who’ve been using Acorns for years? Things you wish you knew earlier?
Hey I just wanted to hear if it’s worth it to be investing with acorns
I upgraded for the Roth IRA match but financially it seems like it’s not gonna be worth it to pay for gold for four years just to keep a few hundred dollars vested
Its been a wild ride so far this year especially with the rise of amd in my custom stocks!I add $65 everyday & im on aggressive!I plan to keep investing 💰 for a good while!I also use acorn emergency savings account 😀 😉 have any questions please ask ill try to help!
I’ve been trying to play a Pokemon rom hack on my phone and I think I downloaded a sketchy file. I got this about an hour after the download. Is there any chance it could be related? Or is this actually from acorns? I was able to get Renegade Platinum to work for those wondering.
I started about a month ago and want to start building this up as much as possible. I added a lot of stocks to my portfolio but really didn’t know what I was doing. Can someone tell me if I should reduce the stocks my money is going into and guide me to which stocks I should limit myself to.
I just started investing don’t really know, I was gonna pay for the gold but I won’t be putting much into Roth IRA so just doing silver, would it better to do gold and invest in other stuff and if so what should I invest in? I’m gonna invest in this and slowly get my savings, once I get too a good benchmark I’ll put more to savings to get it to 3k
What can I do to ensure I get the promotions of acorns referral bonuses promotions? Thanks mine just says get 5 for referring someone
Started Acorns in 2020 (currently 30m) investing only $10/mo because I didn’t realize how important saving for retirement was. Slowly upped contributions throughout the years and finally reached $20k today! Wish I had started at 18 😭
I’m very proud of this because I lost 50,000 in a franchise gone bad so I’m blessed to be up 40,000
I’ve (28m) had this app since 2018 but I never used it but my coworker inspired me recently so I’m giving it a go. I’m in this for the long run, I don’t plan on withdrawing anytime soon . I changed my risk to moderately aggressive and I plan on adding $5 a day to the later section. Is there any tips you guys have for the journey ?