How to Start Investing with $100 — A Step-by-Step Guide
I put off investing for years because I thought I needed real money to get started. Not $100 — I mean real money. Thousands. Tens of thousands. The kind of money that people in suits talk about on CNBC while charts flash behind them. Turns out, that’s one of the most expensive misconceptions in personal finance. Not because $100 is a lot of money, but because every year I waited was a year my money wasn’t growing. If I’d invested just $100 a month starting five years earlier, I’d have roughly $8,000 more today — not from saving more, but from compound growth on money I was already earning. ...