How does someone on a supermarket salary obtain so much in savings?

[YourPoisedFinch]

I have £20,000 in savings, £15,000 currently in an ISA and I have around £72,000 tied up in stocks and shares etc..... how did you obtain all this on a supermarket job?

Save?

Don't you remember how you did it? I'm so confused!

Sure you do.

Save, lifestyle, different priorities.

Eh?

Why are you talking to yourself?

Inheritance ? Are these your savings or
not?

Is this a rhetorical question? Or do you have split personalities?

Parents input, partner input, live on a shoestring, are older and have been saving for a while, live in council accommodation which is cheaper....

There are a lot of reasons someone can have savings.

This quote bizarrely is from a thread I also read on Reddit this morning but I am sure the person with the savings also said both their parents had died and they had inherited from them, so not really sure why OP is asking here about it.

You've taken this from Reddit where he literally explained he lost both of his parents before the age of 30 and has inherited. Is it your comprehension that's the problem or are you trying to cause some kind of debate?

Over how many years?

I am amazed by how much my stocks have gone up.

Start saving young!

What you talkin bout, Willis?

Well done!

The power of spending less than earnings, time and compounding interest/dividends/rising stock market.

It is possible to get rich slowly this way if you have the ‘luck’ of staying healthy, staying in work, having healthy relationships with others, and not investing into a stock market crash or shares of companies that go bankrupt.

Don't YOU know??

Is this a riddle?

Well now, @YourPoisedFinch according to your post on another thread, you have an MSC in economics, so you would surely know the answer already.

One suspects that this thread is nothing more than a goady attempt at getting posters to say that those on a low income are the architects of their own misfortune, and if only they worked hard and educated themselves, they would be as smug and successful as you are.

I could be wrong. But I doubt it.

Lots of people who started working in supermarkets 30+ years ago have made good money via share schemes. My mum and several of her friends have benefitted hugely and were all mortgage free at an earlish age (cheaper house prices helped) with good savings pots.

I doubt many young supermarket workers will be in the same position unless they climb the ranks or have financial support from someone else.

It’s a well known fact that anyone fortunate enough to have a job in a supermarket is able to invest a minimum of 25% of their salary.
Supermarket employees are among the top earners in the country. Gone are the days when they were paid peanuts. They wouldn’t be seen dead shopping in their own stores, they have much higher standards.
😉😁😁.

Oh. This poster again.

I don’t know @YourPoisedFinch , how have you done it?

The responses on here have me rolling 😂

Are you talking to youself in the mirror again?

How would someone as complacent as you are get to buy food without all those low-paid people in the supermarket logistics supply chain?

Here you go:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Don't bother OP,
'Cause we know that it's you.