<prompt> Human: Hello fellow pfers! Definitely a lurkerreader but tonight I share my joy with you all!Im jittery with excitement as tonight I finally feel like I have hit a major milestone in my financial future. As the title says, Ive saved and invested enough to make my net worth 100k. Im where I want to be headed in my life and I havent hit 30 quite yet. I also had an offer accepted for a house tonight in a neighborhood my wife and I really, really want to reside in. Ill soon be a first-time homeowner. All of this is coincident with Thanksgiving tonighttomorrow! Without gushing too hard, Ive got a veritable shitload of gratefulness!Background on me: Im a 29yo married male Air Force officer. Im a naturalized American whose parents taught me to work hard but didnt understand major financial concepts like compound interest and tax-sheltered accounts. The markets are scary to them and get rich quick schemes have derailed their retirement more than once. My individual journey towards FI, however, began during senior year of university. I would read a lot of backdated posts on getrichslowly.org and learn some of my current frugal strategies and money management ideas. I worked a student job for near-minimum wage and donated plasma, which I thought was mostly to fund my beerbicycle fund. I didnt know much about tuition debt because Id never had any and I didnt worry because my instructors assured me of the glut of jobs waiting for me outside the gates. Luckily, serendipitous actually, the year I was to graduate was 2009. I say this because Id bought my first shares of Vanguard Target Retirement Fund 2050, on sale, though at the time, the 3000 dollars required to open an account seemed incredibly steep. Still, the idea of compound interest appeared plausible and I bought regularly with whatever spare funds I could muster. I found work outside of my education to be unlike the kind promised. Delivery, barrestaurant, assistant, sales jobs, all of them were not related to what Id studied. Id considered Masters degrees and teaching abroad but neither seemed to be a ready solution. Id move across the country to find work, in hopes that Id be considered for the regions where my dream jobs floated. All the mean while, Id learn to live frugally and focus on maxing out my IRA - those 5000 yearly contributions werent always easy to scrap together. It was around this same time that Id begin my packet to join the military to put my panache to good use. It took three attempts to finally get accepted to OTS, credit going to my wife then girlfriend who revamped my mission statement. In 2013, Id stop working for scraps.I probably should have focused more on pressing my sleeves and pulling lint off my trousers but most of my limited free time was devoted to learning about military finances. In particular, the bogleheads wiki gave me the insight of how a different realm of financial options could be handled. I became excited at the prospect of being able to save so much in another Roth investment vehicle. Im unsure if I ever maxed out the 18k limits but at this point, I can afford the 1500 a month contributions. I have to watch our budget closely through Mint but the extra work, obviously, is paying off. This coming year, Ill be able to max out both the IRA and TSP accounts. Eventually, Ill start putting money into taxable investments. But that is for another day with better reading completed.It wasnt easy, all the time. I didnt treat myself like everyone around me and skipped on excesses people proclaimed as minimums. My car is nearing 15 years old, bought when it was 7 already. I took road trips and slept on couches more than I flew and booked hotels. My parents never really helped and my wife never asked her folks for handouts. We dumpster dived and gardened, did potlucks and bought on clearances. Ive probably spent more time walking around Target than the equivalent minimum wage of the items I bought there does that make sense?. But the limits we imposed on ourselves are gasp fun - its no joy when the results come without struggles. Tonight my realtor called me back with a congratulations that my offer on our future home would be accepted. Its our first home, a place to call our own. If you would have asked me in 2010 whether Id be married, working a kickass job, and owning a home, Id probably laugh at you. Would I be worth 100k? Would I have the financial background eventually to pursue my dreams? Apparently, that answer should have been yes.This all feels like a ton for me. I used patience and risk, math and shit, to get here. Im not comparing myself to others or putting it in anyones face because thats not my goal. Im just trying to celebrate with some money nerds who might care and rejoice in someone else getting closer to making it. Its definitely a duty of habits and trust but its totally worth the sacrifices. Happy Thanksgiving yo, be grateful.Proof  <response>: Awesome. I am 12k away from the 100k mark myself and should hit it sometime next year. Amazing accomplishment. 