How is everyone dividing their take home paychecks into savings and investment accounts? Understand this will differ based on goals (buying a house, medical bills), but I do 50/50 split. Should I increase the amount I throw into investments?

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YOLO - zero savings since the divorce, burn all the cash for ongoing leisure and pleasure

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Pay off all debts. Max your tax advantaged accounts like 401k. Then overload that with non taxed advantaged money to the max and roll that into a backdoor Roth. Live well below your means in general.

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If you are investing 50% of your take home pay, you are far ahead of most. Are you attempting early retirement? Or just early in your career and don't have typical bills yet?

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The latter, but ive hit my emergency fund already so i dont have an immediate need for liquidity

I assume you meant savings account. I keep that only as emergency fund, 1 year or so. I don’t contribute to it from every paycheck…unless there is nothing I can do with that money. Everything else goes to my retirement focused investments as well as growth investments

I invest all of my extra income into pork belly futures

It depends on how old you are, how much you earn, what goals you have and when you want to retire.
Don’t limit the thinking to 50/50… it’s a pretty decent ratio trust me. Very impressive. It comes down to how’re you using it to plan out life.

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