--- --- # People Have a Lot of Feelings About What How Your Finances Should Look When You're 35  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 21, 2018 7:26 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 21, 2018 7:26 PM UTC After retirement experts in a [_MarketWatch_](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/money-milestones-this-is-how-your-finances-should-look-in-your-30s-2017-05-18) piece suggested that [people should have twice their annual salary saved by the age of 35](http://time.com/money/collection-post/3707719/new-rules-early-retirement/), the Internet wasted no time in sounding off on this [financial advice](https://time.com/personal-finance/article/types-of-bank-accounts/) via social media. While some were indignant about the earnest saving suggestion, pointing out its relative difficulty for the average American, others took a more lighthearted approach, offering humorous alternatives to what many considered to be an unattainable standard. Before you take stock of your savings, take a moment to laugh over the best tweets about how much you should have saved by the age of 35. These Twitter users thought that the advice was aimed only at a specific sector of Americans. > [](https://twitter.com/Jeaniene%5FFrost/status/996385086458224640) > [](https://twitter.com/emanzi/status/996050244084301824) While others pointed to what they considered the suggestion by presenting other scenarios that were equally unavailable. While others found new pieces of sage advice in the financial guidance. > [](https://twitter.com/lasrina/status/997673854326722561) > [](https://twitter.com/MarkAgee/status/996204044606619648) Internet Sounds Off On What You Should Have Saved by 35 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5285777/savings-35-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5285777/savings-35-reactions/"},"headline":"People Have a Lot of Feelings About What How Your Finances Should Look When You're 35","datePublished":"2018-05-21T19:26:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:02.790Z","description":"Are your finances on track?","url":"https://time.com/5285777/savings-35-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5285777/savings-35-reactions/","name":"People Have a Lot of Feelings About What How Your Finances Should Look When You're 35"}}]}] ```