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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 ...

Retirement

What accounts can you use to save for kids?

There are 3 main buckets that kids’ accounts fall into: Save for education ...

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, ...

Personal finance

Masterclass Express

How does the class differ from Save My Retirement Masterclass?

Personal finance

Personal finance creators and resources on FIRE and debt free living

Save My Cents helps people with their money one cent at a time ...

Personal finance

Is this $1,700 baby bassinet worth renting?

Both my kids are horrible sleepers as infants. There’s no such thing as ...

Personal finance

Save My Cents featured in Nasdaq and Motherly

Save My Cents was highlighted in recent articles on Nasdaq and Motherly. Read ...

Personal finance

The most expensive gift I bought myself

I don’t own a lot of stuff for myself. Nor does hubby. Yes, ...

Investing

Your financial advisor is not legally required to invest in your best interest

Did you read that right? Yep. There is no law in the United ...

Travel

A $6,500 resort vacation in Kauai – we spent $700

Travel hacking is when you use reward points (from credit cards, loyalty programs) ...

Personal finance

Give Her Dollars podcast ft. Save My Cents

I am so excited that I was able to spend time with Thamina ...

Personal finance

Actually, buying a home can be throwing money away

I got to hand it to the real estate industry for making everyone ...