Early Retirement

Featured: My FIRE story on Bankrate

I’m very pleased to let you know that my story to FIRE has been featured by Bankrate ...

Personal finance

Featured: HuffPost, BankRate, and CNBC Select

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

Retirement

Why I left the corporate life

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

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How a bad 2022 health-wise made me rethink FIRE

I’ve known for a couple years that many FI/RE (financial independence, retire early) bloggers, including myself, are ...

Early Retirement

Congress has made changes to how retirement works

At the end of 2022, Congress passed a $1.7T spending bill which also included updates to retirement ...

Personal finance

Focus on the right things when prepping for a newborn

My husband and I made the fateful decision 9 years ago to learn to live off of ...

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How to do a Backdoor Roth IRA

* This post has been updated with numbers and relevant information for tax year 2024 * This ...

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Is My Money Stuck in My Retirement Accounts?

It is a very common misconception that once we put money away for retirement into retirement accounts ...

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Funding your retirement vs. funding children’s education

Many American parents face a very difficult decision: Should they fund their own retirement, or save money ...

Early Retirement

Why the Save My Cents are moving to Orange County, California

As of September 1, we will become residents of Orange County, California. The plan for the Save ...

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Early Retirement: Maxing Out My Tax Accounts for Max Tax Savings

If you have been following me for a while, you know that I recommend maxing out your ...

Early Retirement

How I became a millionaire in my early 30s

Recently, I had the honor of being featured by Business Insider. In this article, I talk about ...

Early Retirement

Featured: NextAdvisor names SaveMyCents as one of 10 financially savvy moms to follow

So incredibly honored to have been spotlighted by NextAdvisor, which is a dream publication! NextAdvisor is a ...

Investing

Wealth draining forces: inflation and depreciation

Once I understood the concepts of inflation and depreciation, it was as if a whole new world ...

Early Retirement

Why You No Doctor Podcast

I had the honor of being interviewed by Dominic Zhai on his podcast, Why You No Doctor, ...

Early Retirement

Guest appearance, @nerdsguidetofi Podcast

I am so excited that I was able to connect with Sarah, one of my closest Instagram ...

Early Retirement

FIRE: From $1,700 to $1,200 a month in non-rent spending

In 2013, everything changed. I got married to Mr. Save My Cents, moved to NYC, took a ...

Retirement

Retirement: The great Roth vs. traditional debate

More than once, I have seen the Roth vs. traditional debate paralyze someone into inaction when it ...

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How I Found Peace in a Time of Uproar

Covid-19, record levels of unemployment, lives brought to a standstill, lives lost, unstable stock markets, a nation ...

Early Retirement

My journey to work optional / FIRE in one graphic

Recently I presented to a college group on the importance of maintaining mental health and personal finances, ...

Early Retirement

Media feature: Is FI/RE possible with coronavirus?

Oh hey. I made it to national media again, much thanks to Fox Business. Fox had previously ...

Early Retirement

#wecanyolonow Week 3 – Orange County, CA

This week we enjoyed some more Orange County food spots and also made sure to treat our ...

Early Retirement

#wecanyolonow Week 2 – Orange County, CA

It was not always conscious, but in the second week, we pared way, way back on spending ...

Early Retirement

#wecanyolonow Week 1 – Orange County, CA

First week - costs of travel, lodging, and food

Early Retirement

#wecanyolonow – the introduction

Introduction to an around the world trip the Savemycents are taking

Early Retirement

2018 Fiscal Year Review

Mr. Savemycents and I finally finished tallying our spend in 2018 and are happy to announce that ...

Early Retirement

Not keeping up with the Joneses in New York City

Today we went out for desserts that cost $20 each. Spoiler alert. They’re beautiful, and totally not ...

Early Retirement

My first 401k – from $45K to $115K in 10 years

The path towards financial independence / retiring early (FIRE) requires two things: Reducing your total expenditures to ...

Early Retirement

Life is unfair. Use unfair advantages

Have you often looked at someone who got a really great deal on something and thought, “if ...

Early Retirement

Why Save My Cents

A couple years ago I came to the conclusion that it was very unlikely I would be a ...

Early Retirement

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