Saving A Lot of Money Isn’t Always a Flex

If you’re in your 20s, please find a hobby and have some fun

Dylan Hughes
Published in
3 min readJul 31, 2024

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Feel free to open that jar of money here and there
Photo by Karolina Grabowska

Too many people flaunt their money on the internet. Everybody knows that.

But what everybody doesn’t know is that too many people flaunt how little they spend, too.

This topic stems from a recent tweet where a man claims to live on merely $18,000 a year.

If you don’t want to do the math, I’ll help you: that’s $1,500 a month.

David, who writes a financial independence newsletter, followed up the tweet with a list of how he spends this ~$1,500 a month.

On its face, a lot of these things add up. It’s certainly possible to get rent/utilities/internet down to $750 if you have a roommate (as he does) and living somewhere…

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Dylan Hughes
Heavy Pockets

Three-time author writing on whatever interests me. Follow me on Instagram: chyaboidylan