Do you save or should save each week?

Not enough.

this ^^^^

seriously if you can work the Dave Ramsey plan. pay off any credit cards then save 1-2K for rainy day emergency fund , then pay off any auto loans , then 3 months full income in savings as your security plan , then 15% of what you make in saving for retirement.

having cash on hand is flexibility and it lets you jump on deals when they are available.

we are working on it , but not there

How much would be enough?

I edited my response above while you were asking this , that is a really solid foundation.

none Wife and I saved our entire lives The house is packed full with money we saved same as my 2002 chevy pickup wish I'd have bought a club cab But those cost more

Read the book - "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason

Three months full income? Before taxes?

The answer would be different for every person depending upon when they start saving, lifestyle, ect.

I try to have a years worth in reserve. I never know when a salmon run may fail to show up.

Try to have a full year’s worth in the savings.

When I paid my truck off in '08, that $600 per month continued to come to me (saved). Been 13 years and still driving the same truck and keeping the same $600........

I have about 500-700 a week that I dont use or have any need for so it just goes into the slush fund account.Besides that I normally put away bout 600 a month but that gets used from time to time.

I save a minimum of $1625/month and max out my 401k annually, 19.5k cap

Wife invests $375/mo. so $2000 total per month.

Zero debt, paid for house

7 months emergency fund in cash. Rest in ROTH/ TRAD IRAs, 401k, investments

We also "pay ourselves" a car payment each month to different accounts so when we need a 'new' (always used) we go pay for it in cash.

after tax is fine because it is what you would use to pay al your bills while , sick , injured , out of work.

Ramsey plan here. Doing great for now.

I don’t save any money.

For those that save money, are you happy? Do you ever say “I wish I could afford that”?

no money as in zero savings?

I would be concerned about the emergencies of life around the corner, water heater, HVAC, flat tire, injury, job loss, etc that happens to all of us. We all need some buffer when the storms eventually come. The social safety net only covers so much.

to Answer your question. yes, I am happy and try to live contented. I am to the point where I can afford a lot things but choose not to buy them. There is always some new flashy thing, chasing that only leads to disappointment and discontentment.

Right on. Beauty is the plan works in good times and in bad times.

The key is not what you save, but what you SPEND.

In order to retire comfortably, which I'm assuming, is why this post was started, you have to know what it'll take to live month to month. After I retired I received calls fro co-workers still living, asking how I was doing financially. I asked what their personal financial life was like at the present.

Many were still making car, house payments and even two of them were paying their daughter's house payments, they bought them as wedding presents!.......... and they're looking at retirement a year or two down the road.

You don't have to put aside huge sums of money, but you have to START... It's the COMPOUNDING, even at 4-7% growth, after 30-40 years the balance is surprising.

OH, and don't spend the $59.95 for three months of Dave Ramsey's financial advise.