--- title: Internet Sounds Off On What You Should Have Saved by 35 description: The Internet had plenty of thoughts — and alternatives — after hearing that people should have double their salary saved by the age of 35. canonical: https://time.com/5285777/savings-35-reactions/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-21T19:26:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:02.790Z og:title: People Sound Off On What You Should Have Saved by 35 og:description: Are your finances on track? og:url: https://time.com/5285777/savings-35-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Sound Off On What You Should Have Saved by 35 twitter:description: Are your finances on track? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # People Have a Lot of Feelings About What How Your Finances Should Look When You're 35 > Sponsored content. 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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) ```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"}}]}] ```