Scratch tickets. That's my plan.

Pff, I kick his ass one time and his entire savings is gone. GONE.

/*flex*

bulldg4life: I highly doubt that chick's ability to save $300,000 by the time she was 18.

Most notably the part where it saves money she was given as gifts. So, a family member probably gave her $295,000.


Note where she lives. That's probably 2 weeks allowance.

Actually I worked as a kid and had more saved than that. Of course I pissed it away at college but I'll always have my loss of memories.

Chana Goldstein

Courtesy: Chana Goldstein
Age: 16
Age started saving: 13
Amount saved: $1,000
Hometown: Jerusalem, Israel

I wonder what kind of commentary we're going to get on her?

I'm just gonna call bullshiat on half of this. It's easy to "save" money when you have been given it by your parents. And if they are not from wealthy families, those lovely thousands of dollars are going to get hoovered up by college and their 20's. Now, the girl with $300,000, I call double bullshiat. I absolutely think there's a typo in there, and it's meant to be $30,000. If it's $300K, then it's due to highly risky investments, in which case I dispute the idea that "for the next 35 years that money is only going to keep growing."

Sheesh a bunch of you arses woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Good for these kids for savings and playing around with stocks while they still have time to recover. I only have $20k saved for retirement right now, but I haven't reached 30 yet so I'm not worried about it yet. My retirement plan is actually my husband though. He was like these kids and has enough money in various accounts that we could both comfortably retire at 60 and it will only grow until then. My retirement is basically fun money for going on trips and buying stuff.

tricycleracer: I saved $2800 up when I was 17. Then I bought a sweet 1982 Monte Carlo.

Money comes and goes but mullets and REO Speedwagon are forever!

/ '82 Saab 900 Turbo was my first car .... in '93 - looked like hell but took most things off the line

Wait 'til he turns 21 and discovers strippers. It'll be gone in no time.

My paper route paid $2.52 a week. I had to put $1 of it in the Park Forest Savings and Loan. Felt like a big man walking in there every week and socking a dollar away. The other dollar went to bowling, 25 cents went to half a pound of juju jellies and the rest I blew.

My father closed my saving account and took out about $250 in order to finance his dream of owning a weekly newspaper.

Could never save another nickle again.

SharkTrager: brap: Actually I worked as a kid and had more saved than that. Of course I pissed it away at college but I'll always have my loss of memories.

You had $300,000+ saved by 18?

No. More than that other kid.

DirkTheDaring: The WindowLicker: bulldg4life: I highly doubt that chick's ability to save $300,000 by the time she was 18.

Most notably the part where it saves money she was given as gifts. So, a family member probably gave her $295,000.

But she says that when she works, she puts 50$ a month away. At that rate it must have only taken her 500 years to save 300K...

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"I'm a dancer."

She's gonna be an exploitable by lunchtime, isn't she?

/I mean an exploitable image macro meme, not an exploitable teenager with daddy issues

RminusQ: It's easy to "save" money when you have been given it by your parents.

Even says so in their accounts of their...um...accounts.

Note: not a single black kid in the mix.

Wise_Guy: Gee, how unusual.

Well my retirement would be enough to support myself if we get divorced. Most of his investments are tied up in assets attained before marriage and we have a pre-nup in place so I wouldn't be able to touch any of that (for your misogynist farkers out there). If both of us were to retire we would need to use his money, which I guess I misspoke. His money is enough for both of us to retire right now if we were 60, but not enough to retire right now.

It is a pretty fair deal considering I work 40 hours a week to pay for most our living expenses while he just lives off the dividends he makes on his investments plus a job he works ten hours a week at (something he loves doing) which is still only about half what I make in income, We have the bills split up about 60-40 (I pay 60% of them) right now. I think that is fair since before we met/married he paid off his car, had no debts, and paid off his house plus had money saved up specifically for a honeymoon so we didn't go into any debt with the marriage/honeymoon (I had the wedding money saved up). We are pretty frugal and live modestly enough though we can continue to put money away is savings every month (though not as much as we could I suppose, but we need fun money too). When we have kids, I expect that bill split to be about 70-30 since I think it is fair for me to monetarily take on more responsibility since he has agreed to be a stay at home dad and reduce his hours at work to maybe ten a week or less.

So the way I look at it I'm am shouldering most the responsibility until retirement and then it is his turn. Of course Farkers are hating on any woman that would DARE touch her husband's money so go ahead and hate away.

I had several thousand saved when I went to college.

Spent 1500 on a computer and the rest on beer lol!

I'm pretty sure itis a violation of ETrade and ScottTrade TOS for a 14 year old to own accounts.