until you make enough to subsist without work for the rest of your life

What is a vanguard index fund.

Vanguard is a company which runs index funds

index funds are investment funds which allow you to trade against an index

and index is a set of stocks

Clearly, I don't invest.

vanguard index funds are investment funds which allow you to invest in a large number of stocks in aggregate

But would like to start.

They beat active fund management in almost every case

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How much do you need to invest.

What's the minimum amount.

and as long as you have the testicular fortitude to have faith in the market when it dips 20%, and choose to buy when it's cheap, rather than selling out of fear, you will win in almost every case if you just buy one index fund

@Inquisition as much as you can, or as little as you have

I have a few hundred sitting in a savings account.

start at a tiny ratio of savings

and think of it like a game

Also if you are in the US and are a low income earner you have tax form 4440 that grants a massive tax cut to match your savings

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And the congress passed a new bill enabling a type of account similar to Canada's TFSAs

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allows you to save without certain tax disincentives

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@Inquisition save 6 months of expenses in a savings account to protect against emergencies, then invest a percent of spare cash after exspenses

six months of take-home pay is a good standard for an emergency fund

the vast majority of people can achieve this, if they are willing to live within their means

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@Inquisition what proportion of your take home pay do you spend?

All of it. 😛

I'm guessing it's near all of it

consider spending less of it

What are you buying each week

look at your credit statement, and see if there's anything in there you honestly don't take full advantage of

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big expense I see people have is eating out often. That adds up immensely compared to cooking their own food, and the health effects of constant takeout are pretty nasty

the sheer amount of salt, sugar and oils that resturant and takeout food has alone...

Yeah, eating out is incredibly expensive, both on the front end, and in the long term

and honestly, it is a fleeting joy

It’s great