If you have any connection to social media at all, you’re likely well aware of the current “2016 throwback” trend. Users are posting throwback videos and videos from 2016 across TikTok and Instagram, with searches for 2016 spiking massively according to Forbes. But what if 2016 wasn’t just a year of memes and pop culture moments, but a financial turning point instead?
Imagine, for example, how much money you’d have saved if you had cut just one big bill in 2016, like cable TV, your cell phone plan or auto insurance and kept that saving habit until 2026. Here are the numbers so you can see how much you could have potentially banked by now.
