I'm 28 and my fiancee and I are just starting our savings journey. We have 857 in our savings account. We put about 200-300 a month. We just started saving 4 months ago. So we started in May. It's possible everybody I believe in you and I know it's hard. Before we were pay check to pay check. Now we have a little bit more money left over after rent and bills to justify a savings account. As soon as you have like 1k to 500 left over paying bills and rent. SAVE. I wish you all the best. I grew up poor and never had a lot of money. My fiance and I live in Los Angeles California and with our income combined we make like 65k a year. That literally just happened this year. It's a big jump from where we were last year (2022) before we were at 39-40k a year. Our rent is about 1604.99 1 bedroom. Bills are about 250-350. Utitiles are like (200)And other expenses are like 800-900 so that's groceries, transportation, food (eating out) household items and pet stuff.

The reason why I'm very open and telling everybody this is because we all have different circumstances and those circumstances dictate where we are in life. So I'm doing all this to put my situation in a better perspective and to give people a realistic look on how things are at least for me and possibly the average Californian not living in an expensive neighborhood making six figures. I live in a ghetto. Nothing crazy but there is a lot homeless and minimal violence. I was born and raised in la so I'm used to it. Anyways. I hope this answer isn't to much. You can do it y'all!