How To Change Your Relationship With Money In Your 20s

There are a few rites of passage we all experience in our 20s. Of course, there are minor ones, like the moment you finally learn how to shape your eyebrows. Then there are more serious ones, like the time you finally reject that person who’s just not good for you (even though you’ve let them back into your life countless times) and the time you finally realize how to take control over your finances.

If this aha moment regarding finances still hasn’t happened to you, don’t worry. We’re all learning at our own pace; the important thing is that you continue to learn, no matter what age you are.

Here are a few of the ways Elite Daily readers finally got control of their finances after stepping out into the post-high-school and postcollege “real world.” Let their aha moments inspire your own.

The Book That Changed Everything

I was never taught financial management at home, and school obviously doesn’t teach it, so after five years, two degrees, moving in with my boyfriend, then a cross-country move to Ottawa at age 24, I was broke — like $60,000-in-debt broke. We suddenly had to move home (back to Vancouve...