How I Save Over Half My Income, Making $8/hr

Emily D
6 min readJan 25, 2021

2020 was a crazy year, in short. I went from a job where I could comfortably pay sky high rent in a large city and spend $20 on lunch twice a week, to working a near-minimum wage job while slowly increasing my net worth by saving over half of my net income. In order for this change to happen, a few key factors came into play:

  1. I moved. Yes, like many others, I made the great 2020 migration out of the city and back to a state where cost of living is significantly lower. With no job, and an imploding industry at the start of all of this, I decided to move…

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Emily D
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I write about personal finance, budgeting, and financial minimalism