Blog – Save My Cents

Personal finance

You should not need to pay ANYONE thousands to fix your money

I have been a personal finance coach for nearly 10 years and only ...

Personal finance

Admin Night September 2026

I’m a mom of 3 kids, primary parent, run a multi-million dollar household, ...

Investing

Don’t hire a financial advisor

When people start earning more, I usually see them ask others: “Should I ...

Travel

How we travel for free – our strategy

I get a lot of questions all the time about what are my ...

Personal finance

Featured: How to prepare for a recession

Honored to be featured today in this article on CNET where I discuss ...

Personal finance

New: Budgeting 101 Course

Starting on your financial journey means that maintaining a budget is a must ...

Personal finance

Free Online Class: What the tax

I will be holding a live and free online class via Zoom to ...

Personal finance

My top tax tips over the years

The first year I ever filed taxes I tried to do it by ...

Personal finance

Our last round of IVF

In 2021 when I went through IVF to have our second child, we ...

Personal finance

Save My Cents Features: Ruowen Huang Livestream, The Jeff Kung Show

Save My Cents is honored to have been featured on the Ruowen Huang ...

Personal finance

What accounts can you use to save for kids?

Before you read this page, I wanted to highlight a few strong “rules” ...

Travel

A $25K ten-day luxury trip to Japan

Introduction Every year, the Save My Cents (Shang and her husband) take a ...

Travel

Hawaii: 8 days, 7 nights, 4 adults, 2 kids

This is our fourth trip to Hawaii, and the one where we brought ...

Capsule wardrobe

My 2023 Clothing Spend

We’re back for one of the annual blogs which is a summary of ...

Personal finance

How much extra do our two kids add to the monthly budget?

Now that it’s been a year of having two kids, I have a ...

Personal finance

We’ve spent over $90K on what?

Since October 2020, the Save My Cents have spent more than $90K in ...

Early Retirement

Featured: My FIRE story on Bankrate

I’m very pleased to let you know that my story to FIRE has ...

Investing

Should I wait to do a rollover if my investments are down?

Great question recently from a coaching client: “I am about to move forward ...

Travel

Our nearly $20K 10-year anniversary trip

Fall 2023 was when the Save My Cents celebrated 10 years married. For ...

Personal finance

Low cost Orange County family things to do

I’ve now lived in Orange County, California for a year. It’s flown by ...

Personal finance

Featured: HuffPost, BankRate, and CNBC Select

The Huffington Post recently published an article you’ve gotta see that is full ...

Personal finance

Update: our monthly non-rent costs in Socal

The theme of this post is: Lifestyle inflation! {for new readers, BB = ...

Personal finance

Save My Cents featured on BlogHer

Save My Cents was featured by BlogHer in its insightful article “Women Leaders ...

Early Retirement

Why I left the corporate life

“You should write your obituary and then try to figure out how to ...

Travel

How we travel: Las Vegas

We took a 3 days 2 nights trip to Las Vegas in May, ...

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