I would love to join but I have too many goals that need the money..




I would love to join but I have too many goals that need the money..


i want to join in soon. my goal will be 10-12 thousand by the end of the year for a car and moving out . good luck ladies??

I opened my new savings account today and I'm on my way to 10K.


6000$ saved 14000$ to go! My goal date August 31st 20,000$ Just have to save 3500 a month
Health is holding up great so I'm at $2,000 right now and working my way up. Hope to be at $10,000 by mid July for my birthday. Husband and I are still working our day jobs so that covers all our expenses and then dancing money goes almost entirely into savings.
For my birthday we got a couple days off to look at investment land. My husband is just finishing his degree in geophysics so we are going to look at finding property we can mine. We are applying for mining rights for a few areas, pulling some samples, and seeing if anything pans out (tee hee, pun). So far we've got about 10 possibly promising properties to look at in the southwest, each with between 10-50 acres, and each within that minuscule $10,000 range. If we get lucky and find the right property we will be able to return our investment within anywhere from a few months to a few years and then can use the property for other investment purposes. If we don't get lucky than we had a fun birthday trip and I try to reach $20,000 so we can try again.
I'm uber excited to watch my savings grow and to prepare for owning land (hopefully sooner rather than later), which has been a dream of mine for a few years. Having everyone here trying to save that money has inspired me to work my butt off for a goal rather than just dragging my feet through the club taking what I can and being happy that it was better than nothing.
We've got plenty of other investment hopes so I'm excited to join maybe the $50,000 club next.
You should still join, but you should count the money towards your goals instead. $10,000 is still $10,000, even if you spend it on your goals along the way.
So if you make 5K and use that to buy a car, then I'd say that counts as 50% of the 10K goal of this thread! That's what most people in this thread are doing, anyway--not necessarily aiming for a lump sum, but saving money for things outside of paying off rent, etc.




I can join the thread thanks to what Charlie said!
I spent 4k on tuition and have saved another 3. It should be so much more but I haven't been able to work more than a couple nights a week thanks to my senior thesis that will never get me a job. One I graduate, I'll work four days a week whether or not I find a day job with my English major from a school with a horrible reputation, and aim for at least $15k in cash for the year. Hell, even if someone makes $35-40 a year they could easily save that if they live on a reasonable budget and have no dependents or tuitions/mortgages/loans/whatever to pay, which I will not.
^ I'm an English major, and I have a kickass job now!!! If you're a smart chick with an awesome GPA, PM me and I'll give you the details.
$35-40K is more than enough money to live off of. Even when I throw $400/month into my Roth IRA, I still only spend about $1200/month, including rent. That's less than $20K a year. And that's living on a raw diet (expensive). I'm very good at controlling my spending, but I definitely buy things I want (sushi!!).




About to PM you! And thanks for your post and the perspective it offers. I have a warped relationship with money and rarely devote time to think about the amount I should be saving relative to my income rather than putting aside whatever happens to be left over at the end of each month.






Fuck I got to 18000 and my club is closedbye bye money
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i have to update my ticker...but only 1000 left to go!, i started at zero at the beginning of this thread, this is inspiring!!!
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I felt a little off my game this last week, I'm ready for next weekend though.
I'm almost halfway there.




oh fuck, i've been out of this since the beginning of the year. FINALLY got a savings account opened, and it's MUCH easier to save money when it has a place to go to! hahahaha.
if i can put away $2-300 each week from here till the end of the year, i'll be set to get there when you guys do!!![]()


Being an ex-dancer in her 30s, this is the hard truth of our business. I am very grateful that I learned this lesson in my mid 20s, while my money was peaking. I started using a similar strategy, which later evolved as my needs evolved.
-I figured out exactly how much I needed to put aside on a weekly basis to pay my bills. I had an envelope dedicated for each bill (rent, car, electric, etc). Every night I came home I would take out my bare minimum daily money. Everything else when into a lock box. At the end of the week I would deduct my "weekly bill contribution" and put the money into the appropriate envelope. 10% of whatever was left was mine to do with as I pleased the rest I used to pay off my debt. I paid off $17,000 in 6 months.
-Once my debt was paid off I started investing. My leftover was now cut in half. 1/2 was sent to my broker and 1/2 was deposited into a safety deposit box at my bank. (Talk about not being able to touch your money)
-Now that I am stable financially my money gets divided every night instead of every week. 20% is saved, aka deposit box, and 30% is invested. The rest is used to pay bills.
I'm definitely not making what I used to make and am very grateful for the nest egg I was able to put away. I hope more girls listen to the good advice they can receive on this site so they will have something to show for all their hard work when the yellow brick road finally ends.

I'm at 8800! AH. need to save like 4k in 2 weeks. I hope I can do it!


I've been slacking sooooo muchI've barely worked at all the last two months. Starting next week, I'm going to refresh my focus.
I had a bit of a financial emergency that cleared me out - of savings, emergency fund, everything. At first I was devastated to start from scratch but I think I learned a lot about the value of money and the importance of being smart with it. I kept my $10,000 Club ticker because I was determined to get back to where I was.
Now I worked for 2 weeks straight and after bills etc I have $3000 put awayI'm out of town so I can't get to my "back on my feet" plan, but once I've divided my money up, I can put some towards getting to the $10K, WOOT!

10,000!!! I did it!!
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