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— Paid Twice artfully wove a lot of blog posts into one story in the 26th edition of Carnival of Money Stories. It’s quite recursive, and quite beautiful. is amidst this carnival. See if you can find it!

— This is a great compilation from a very diverse group of bloggers, and my article on not has been included. I think my favorite article out of the bunch is . Seriously, who needs PJs anyway?

Finally, a ginormous thanks to for linking my article about my years in college. The Consumerist saw Frugal for Life’s mention and decided to link the . I thought it was funny when two of my friends instant messaged me yesterday and said something along the lines of, “OMG, you’re on consumerist!” It’s even funnier because the article isn’t really focused on borrowing books from the library, but mostly a story about working and saving.

Until next time, you can of my blog!

It’s a beautiful mild Monday in San Mateo and the More than 100 submissions were culled to just 88, and is one of the articles under Budgeting and Saving.

I also enjoyed reading the following articles:

— Very good article by David. A bit off topic but I know a couple from church named Jones, and they’re the most down to earth and humble people I have ever met. So every time I hear the expression “keeping up with Joneses” I chuckle a bit because if everyone lived like the Joneses I know the world would be an awesome place.

— I read this article before the carnival went up. It’s a hilarious article, but Mr. Cheap needs to find a Mrs. SuperCheap to make that possible. Good luck man.

— The Millionaire Mommy Next Door is pretty inspirational, and I would like to be a millionaire mommy next door someday. Meanwhile, I just read her blog.

Alright, now there are 84 more great articles for you to read in this carnival. I read fast so I am done. Hooray!

Many personal finance bloggers have a very large goal such as 2 million or 1 million and track their progress on their site. I confess that I like reading about these people’s progress, but I don’t really track my progress in that much detail. I think it would be too much information to display every single account I own on this blog. So instead, let me tell you about how I set my financial goals.

I came up with the idea of 5% goals a while back when I was measuring my monthly networth gain. Basically I set up a total of 100 networth goals, and each goal is a 5% gain over the last goal. For each goal I put a target date for me to achieve it and then I record the actual date I achieved it. I think that it really gives me discipline to save and invest and also I am competing with myself to finish my goal before my estimate. The goals get exponentially larger and thus become harder to reach so you have to adjust your estimated finish date.

I haven’t really shown anyone my goals list, but the list started at $31,500, which is 5% over my original stash of $30,000. The 100th goal is $3,945,037, which is basically 30,000 * 1.05^100, and I have an estimated completion date of December, 2027 on that last goal. However, I could finish before then because right now I finished the last goal 8 months ahead of schedule. Now my goals also include my hubby so hopefully we will finish ahead of schedule together. I like my goals system because 100 improvements of 5% is psychologically more possible than a huge number like $3,945,037. Exponential growth is a very powerful thing and successive small improvements can do more than you think.

Instead of graduating college with a buttload of debt, I came out with about $30,000 in savings. This is a measly amount of money compared to the earnings of some people I know who started their own companies or got really good at online poker, but I thought it was a good chunk of money at the age of 21. This is how I did it and I hope it’s entertaining to you.

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Now you may ask, when did you study for class and do projects? Well, I spent a lot of time on those too, but college students really have a lot of time on their hands. That’s why a lot of them can start companies, get good at pokers, or becoming gaming champions.

So what did I do with my $30,000 after the pomp and circumstance? I put $7000 of it into a Roth IRA at Vanguard, and $13000 of it into an individual fund acount at Vanguard. I haven’t moved the Vanguard money for two years and the $20,000 there has now grown to about $27,500. I put half of the money in Vanguard Target Retirement 2045, and half of the money in Vanguard Primecap Core (a fund recommendation from my mom). I don’t worry about my Vanguard fund very much, and I’m just letting it grow. I put the other $10,000 in t-bills and i-bonds, which has been earning less interest. However, T-bills are very accessible and I like them because I don’t have to pay state taxes on the income. I think ultimately it really helped me to have very supportive parents who are also financially savvy. They told me about things like Roth IRAs and mutual funds and now after two years of working full time and saving, my little nest egg has grown to more than four times its original size.

Last year when I went to China to visit my grandparents my granddad presented me with an old essay book from the year right before I left for America. In it there were weekly essays written by me for Chinese class. One of the highest scoring essays in the entire booklet is titled “Savings Jar”. I seriously did not remember writing any of the essays in that booklet, but I really enjoyed reading this particular essay, and it really shows that I have been saving ever since I was a kid. Since the original is in Chinese, I am translating it here for your reading pleasure

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I have a pretty savings jar made out of colorful porcelain. It has a small mouth, but its tummy is quite large. It is rotund and has a hemispherical cover. It looks just like a fat child wearing a set of flowery clothes and a multicolored hat. Its black bottom has drawings of large pink flower buds and tiny yellow blooms with blue and green leaves and a yellow stem. The jar’s rim has a decorative border that looks like lotus flower petals that are blue, green, and red. Its many colors look as if they’re dancing and it’s extremely beautiful.

Its large stomach can hold many things. Originally It was used to store stamps, but when my first pig-shaped coin bank broke, my mom gave this jar to me for saving money. The money in the jar is all saved by me on a daily basis. Whenever I am given a coin I would put it in. Just like this days turned into months, what was small grew large, and grains of sand became a tower. After several years, the jar now contains more than ten yuan, and it is quite heavy when it is held.

One day, I was showing off my savings jar to my grandmother. Because it is very heavy I accidentally dropped the cover on the ground and it broke in two. I was so sad that I almost cried. Then I heard that my uncle has all purpose glue in his factory, so I carefully put together the pieces of the cover and wrapped it up with paper. Afterwards, my uncle used the glue and repaired the cover, and my jar was perfectly restored.

Savings jar, you are my little bank. You are not only beautiful on the outside, but you also are training me to maintain the good habit of saving money!

Anyway I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed translating it. The teacher underlined some of the poetic parts indicating that she liked it, and she didn’t edit this essay at all. If you’re curious, the ten yuan I collected in that jar was worth about $1.60 back in the early 1990s, but it was possible to buy quite a lot of things in China with it back then, at least from an eight year girl’s perspective. The lowest scored essay in the booklet was titled “An Event I Found Deeply Moving”, and it was about an old woman barfing on the street non-stop. That essay seriously made my mom choke from laughter when she read it. Do any of you guys remember your piggy banks? Was it a fond memory?