Adulting 101: Money

Phillip Becker
10 min readJun 15, 2021

The seriously basic guide to saving a few bucks that might come in handy later.

A crinkled dollar bill

This is your basic guide to saving, investing, and maybe even making a couple of bucks in the process. You’ll find the simplest information about saving and investing tools that you can set up in literally 5 minutes, and hopefully, I’ll answer a few questions along the way regarding account types, IRAs, blah blah blah. The younger you can start these things the better, but it’s also never too late — so get on it. I find myself constantly surprised that (SOME) of my friends and acquaintances don’t have bare minimum savings in place. So, first off, know you’re not alone in this.

Also. No, this will not be “Lamborghini on TikTok” money (I originally wrote “Instagram” and it made me feel old. So there, I’m aging myself in paragraph two.), and there will be no fun “get rich quick” ideas here. I’m sorry if this is news to you, but most of those are pyramid schemes or secretly involved plenty of mommy and daddy’s money to get started. For the 0.1% of you who are outside of those categories and by some miracle of the gods got to this article… Good for you! Donate your enormous wealth to charities, tip LARGE, spend it on seriously dumb shit that will help stimulate your local economy. Just don’t hoard it. That’s how we all got here. Moving on!

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Phillip Becker
Phillip Becker

Written by Phillip Becker

Product Manager, Father, Entrepreneur. Random well-researched thoughts on work, life, money, and everything in between.

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