Currently my computer is a sack of stuff.

Since I'm too cheap and can't be bothered, I bought 8gb of ram and am planing on buying a 128gb SSD for it.
My only concern is that the processor will bottleneck the ram.
Are you sure you bought the right RAM for your laptop?
And can you even upgrade the hard drive in your laptop?
These are things that you need to like quadruple check for upgrading your laptop. RAM isn't hard to upgrade but your storage is up in the air for most laptops, especially if your laptop is older.