Personal Savings Advice

The cluster focuses on advice for aggressively saving money, building large emergency funds, living frugally on a portion of income, avoiding debt, and investing for long-term financial security and early retirement.

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tortilla Apr 18, 2009 View on HN

Save up a year of living expenses.

eimrine Oct 20, 2022 View on HN

Are you sure you will manage to keep saving your money till end of life? (thiefs, tornados, unexpected problems)

duderific Aug 7, 2017 View on HN

Save and invest as much as you can. 10% of income is a good goal, more if you can do it.

walshemj Mar 28, 2017 View on HN

Just save a "little" bit? you should be aiming for 1k savings per month

tertius Sep 9, 2017 View on HN

Do work, save, don't go into debt, invest.

jgamman Mar 27, 2011 View on HN

pay bulk of your salary into a savings account. get used to living on say, 20% of it. you'll see pretty soon if you're 'following you dream' or getting hooked on cash

cimmanom Oct 30, 2018 View on HN

Aside from an emergency fund of more than 3 months of living expenses?

throwaway22032 Mar 15, 2022 View on HN

Find someone who earns half of what you do (after tax), live like them, put half in the bank before you do anything else.

ferdowsi Jan 3, 2022 View on HN

Sound financial advice would be having an emergency fund of several months of expenses. You're doing it wrong.

ironsam Mar 20, 2009 View on HN

I would build up more savings - two months of expenses isn't much.