Years ago when I entered the workforce, I set myself goals (you can refer to the left side of my blog), mainly financial ones. I set to achieve $100k cash savings before 28. I shared my tips on how I achieved it here and they were really simple tips, mainly tweaks to your lifestyle (eg, dining at discounts). I then set out to achieve $200k by 28. As 2018 draws to a close soon, I found out that I've hit $200k in cash savings. Except, I've just parked $6k+ to my CPF MA for tax relief, and it has now dropped to less than that. I've also parked $7k into my CPF SA some months back, so I would have hit $200k earlier. If I delve even deeper, I have also bought stocks amounting at ~$10k. Yup, so I would have crossed the $200k mark even earlier. In any case, this is just a ...