Dividend Income – March 2022 update
It’s hard to believe it’s already April. I don’t know about you, but the last two years have been a bit of a blur to me. I still remember getting a work email on March …
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 $6,000 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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Dividend Income – February 2022 update
If you told me at the beginning of 2020 that we’d see a global pandemic, the Taliban taking back Afghanistan, racial injustice, devastating forest fires, heatwaves, destructive floods, attack of the US Capitol, and a …