If you’re impulse buying crap online, I find keeping items in the shopping cart for a day or so gives me time to think before pulling the trigger. If it’s an emergency that’s one thing, but most of the time it can wait.

Also I find budgetting apps to be really helpful in curbing unnecessary spending.

Gen Y (millenials) saw the second largest increase. Balances for millenials and Gen Z are much lower due to other expenses like student loans.

It’s not just boomers.

Young savers have done especially well. Gen Z saw a 66% increase in average 401(k) balances compared to a year ago, while millennials saw a 24.5% increase. Average Gen X balances were up 14.5%, and baby boomers saw an average increase of 6.3% compared to a year ago.

Source from Fidelity (PDF)