Forget the House— Financial Achievements to Be Proud Of Now

Remember when you still paid bank late fees?

Buying flowers at Trader Joe’s is a luxury and no one can tell me otherwise. Photo by author.

Buying the house, funding the wedding, paying for the kid, and joining a coveted urban country club — we Gen X and Millennials of one bedroom rentals and day jobs and scuffed Converse don’t know this life. We can sit around sad in our thirties, forties, and fifties that we don’t have that slice of American Dream or we…