{"id":849733,"date":"2026-09-16T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849733\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:58:08","slug":"why-skipping-a-pumpkin-spice-latte-wont-help-you-save-for-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849733\/","title":{"rendered":"Why skipping a pumpkin spice latte won&#8217;t help you save for retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Z6ZUBDBK3NDPHGVQK3COBX7FD4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/food\/2026\/08\/31\/pumpkin-spice-latte-has-some-surprising-fall-competition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/food\/2026\/08\/31\/pumpkin-spice-latte-has-some-surprising-fall-competition\/\">daily latte habit <\/a>is not keeping you from becoming a 401(k) millionaire. To reach that goal, you need three things: time, discipline, and patience.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2VQFFLAWGVEBBH5E5M6Q3CTQ24\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Fidelity Investments reported earlier this month that the number of 401(k) millionaires in the funds it manages reached a record high of 769,000 in the second quarter of this year. That\u2019s a 19 percent increase from 646,000 in the previous quarter and a 30 percent jump year-over-year. While these figures reflect only plans managed by Fidelity, one of the nation\u2019s largest 401(k) administrators, they provide useful <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fidelity.com\/data-and-insights\/q2-2026-retirement-analysis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/about.fidelity.com\/data-and-insights\/q2-2026-retirement-analysis\">insight <\/a>into how workers are building retirement wealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your daily latte habit is not keeping you from becoming a 401(k) millionaire. To reach that goal, you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-849733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}