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Training-Gold5996 t1_j3o1r10 wrote

Reply to comment by BlizzardArms in [OC] Every $ I spent in 2022 as a 26M living in Washington, DC by Coloncologne

Yea, glad someone picked up on that. Listen, no issues with the OP as a person. But it's definitely a lot easier to sit back and make a graph like this when you're 26 and earning over six figures (albeit in IT in DC :)). I noticed he has nothing outgoing like student debt and has a nice chuck incoming from inheritance. Basically, this is a privillaged person celebrating his privillage via data viz (probably charging his client by the hour while he does it :)) before heading out to Bluejacket.

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Coloncologne OP t1_j3rjf3m wrote

It's easy to do this and I'm not perfect by any means but it's important to not make judgments based on face value.

I have $28K in student loans. I didn't make payments, because student loan payments have been frozen for the past year plus, which helped me save way more this past year.

My inheritance was from the sudden tragic death of an immediate family member. While I am grateful for the money, I would trade it all and more back.

My parents worked blue collar jobs. I attended public schools and public university. I didn't even know what government consulting was until my senior year of college when I needed to start applying for jobs. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life and I still don't - I just knew I didn't want to worry about money the way my parents did.

A few years ago, a post like this one in this subreddit inspired me to start tracking my expenses and begin budgeting. I posted this visualization to get some congratulations but also to hopefully inspire someone else to take control of their finances.

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