Lol, they made us look, didn't they?
The headline is clickbaity as hell, but the person is not as ridiculous as they seem, based on the headline.
"How much money do you have in savings?" "I have approximately $400,000 in savings across my home equity, 401(k), Roth IRA, and brokerage accounts. I started working when I was in college (as a teaching assistant, as a tutor, in a stockroom, and through summer internships), started investing young, and have ridden the stock market returns for a few years. I’m very grateful that my parents paid for college and I do not have any debt." Pretty damn good for a 27-year-old homeowner, even if they do eat out too much.
The problem is these articles take a week's spending and multiply it by 52, which is stupid. Let's see... DH and I are at home, down with Covid. I spent zero dollars on food this week. Does that mean my annual food spending is zero?
Ditto for those articles that say, "I did X for Y number of days, here's what I discovered." X is always too insignificant a time to produce meaningful results, but just enough for a click-baity article.
Since it's a new series, it might be fun if a mustachian who knows how to cook applied to be profiled. Hmmm...
@PhilB,
@UnleashHell, and
@K_in_the_kitchen all come to mind off the top of my head. That would make great reading!
And I agree with you,
@sadiesortsitout, I love first person stories. I did one of those money makeover stories in the pre-MMM stone ages and it was a great experience. However, it was also when Quicken was new-ish and I had a year's worth of very granular expenses for them to dig into. Boy, the things we had to figure out before financial blogs, especially MMM, sprang into existence.
On a related note: We watched something on HGTV where the subject said, "I cook 21 meals a week...I
need a huge kitchen." Hahaha! Bully for you, cooking 21 meals a week, like that makes you a total Rockstar. I suspect she's a food blogger, but couldn't be arsed to suss it out.
Thanks for the link,
@calimom!