We were definitely savings in the 60s to 70% across myself and my husband's salary, right?

Like we were living on one salary, which was, you know, my salary was getting us across what we

needed to pay. A big chunk of my salary was going towards saving and investing and every bit of

money that he was making. And so in 2021, we were saving and investing $17,000 in month.

We saved and invested over $350,000 in 2021. And this year,

we've already saved and invested over $200,000. But again, I started off making $30,000 back in 2007.

Starting off at $30,000, you know, and then moving to kind of the $50,000, then in the $80,000 range. Once I took on my first couple leadership positions,

I was getting paid in the 120s. But when I became a director and then took the expat assignment,

the money that I was seeing in my paycheck was around almost $300,000. But with the incentives I also

had in my expat package, my housing was paid for in Singapore.

My apartment was $7,300 a month.

So I wasn't paying for housing.

And oh, by the way, I'm renting out my house back at home.

We had paid that house off, right?

So we had $3,300 worth of income coming in technically from that home.

We made the most amount of progress in 2021.

And we moved from our first $100,000 in

2018 to over a million in 2021. You're listening to Yo Quiero Dinoero, a personal finance podcast

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