Hit my $10,000 emergency fund yesterday and almost dropped my coffee

I've been putting aside $50 every paycheck for almost two years. I checked my savings app while waiting for my bus and saw it finally hit $10,000. It felt fake because I started with just $12 in my account back in 2022. My goal was to cover 3 months of rent and it took way longer than I thought. Has anyone else hit a number that felt impossible when you started?

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rivershah1mo ago

This is the same thing I notice with working out or learning anything, the start is the worst part because the goal looks stupid big and you feel dumb for even trying. Fifty bucks every two weeks sounds like nothing when you say it out loud, like why bother, but that is kind of the trick. Small stuff you can actually keep doing beats big moves you quit after a month. And the app showing a number going up is its own thing, it messes with your head in a good way because you start to trust yourself. Then one day it is just there and you are standing at a bus stop like wait what.

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