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Hit $10,000 in my savings account and just stared at the screen for 5 minutes
I grew up watching my mom cash advance checks at a place in Gary, Indiana, so seeing $10,000 in my own account after 3 years of $75 auto transfers felt fake. My wife asked why I wasn't excited and honestly I think I was just scared it would disappear. Did anyone else feel weird instead of happy at their first big money goal?
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juliagonzalez7d ago
Reminds me of my grandma's kitchen drawer full of rubber bands and twist ties. She lived through the Depression and never trusted a full pantry, always had this look like the food might vanish overnight. When I finally paid off my car last year I sat in the driveway waiting for something to go wrong, a light to come on, a weird noise, anything. Took me a week to admit the thing was really mine. Your body learns to flinch at money from watching grownups scramble, and it doesn't unlearn it just because the numbers look good.
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