09/18/2026
A $300 dress or $100,000?
Stay with me...
Back in the early 2000s, a Diane von Furstenberg dress like this would have retailed for around $300.
Now imagine that starting in 2000, you invested $300 at the beginning of every year in an S&P 500 index fund instead, with dividends reinvested.
Your total contributions of $8,100 would be worth roughly $50,000 today.
Leave that $50K invested for another 10 years at an illustrative 8% annual return?
About $108,000.
Now THAT is some closet math.
Am I telling you not to buy the dress? Please.
Buy the dress. Buy the shoes. Take the trip.
Just make sure your money is working as hard as you did to earn it.
That's the kind of conversation we're having at my Peace of Mind Reset on September 23 — understanding where your money is going, what it's building, and what you want it to make possible.
Join me for THE RESET by clicking the link in my BIO. Just a few days left to reserve your spot.
And yes, the DVF I'm wearing? $26 at a thrift store.
Sometimes you really can have both. 😉
Joy and Luck,
Christine Sarno
Your Financial Wingwoman