Food for thought

Here's some food for thought: these are some milestones to shoot for by age 30, according to the folks over at Money After Graduation.

It's important to be debt-free (one of the suggestions here), as the more money you have in loans AND the longer it takes to pay those loans back, the more interest you'll be paying. Obviously, you want to make that number as small as possible, unless you want to make your lender rich.