Tawcan is a Canadian personal finance and dividend investing blog that chronicles my quest for financial independence and joyful life.
I started this blog to show it is possible to achieve financial independence as a single-income family with two young kids while living in Vancouver Canada, one of the most expensive cities in the world.
My wife and I started building our dividend portfolio in 2011 after a financial epiphany.
Today, the portfolio generates over $5,400 in dividends per month. We originally dreamed of becoming financially independent and living off dividends by 2025. Although we could live off dividends by supplementing it with a part time income in 2025, we aren't in a rush to cross the so called "finish line." Therefore, we are taking it easy and we plan to realize the dream of living off dividends before 2030.
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For Christmas, Mrs. T got a scratch map for me. I was quite ecstatic about this gift because I’ve always wanted a map to mark off countries that I have visited. I have wanted a map like …
Here in Canada, both Financial Post and The Globe and Mail run similar articles each week where they go through readers’ current financial situation and suggest how they can improve their retirement readiness. I’ve always enjoyed …
I was a university student not so long ago. University was an interesting time for me, living on my own, studying and preparing for exams, and learning how to be an independent adult. Nowadays, attending …
This update is a little bit later than usual as I’ve been under the weather the last few days. 🙁 When I tallied our dividend income in middle of December, I knew we already met …
I’ll start today’s article with a quote from Dalai Lama. Everybody wants happy life. Sometimes the people – in order to achieve happy life, successful life, entirely relying on external means – money, power or …
When we moved to our current house in October it meant that we would be living closer to my parents. It used to take them about an hour to drive to visit us, now it only takes …
This is what Christmas means to us. The most important part of Christmas is something Mrs. T brought with her from Denmark. It is called “Hygge”. There is no English word that hygge can be translated …
