Dividend Income – Nov 2020 Update
Can you believe there’s only one more month to go before we wrap up 2020? Since the time change, we are getting less and less daylight in Vancouver. It is not unusual to wake up …
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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10 Financial things to do before end of year – Year-end financial checklist for Canadians
Given the COVID-19 global pandemic, 2020 has been a year much different than any other. However, it doesn’t mean you can just let your finances slip through the cracks and not pay any attention to …
I ain’t aiming for perfection & neither should you
Over the years, I have written and published a lot of blog posts. In fact, WordPress tells me that I have published over 430 blog posts and 11 pages, or a total of 613,610 words …
How to start dividend investing with as little as $1,000
Last week I shared our story on how we got started with dividend investing. After thinking more about how we got started, I began to wonder what we would do if we were to start dividend …
Why financial independence is more important than ever
Since graduating from university, I have spent my entire working career with the same company. In fact, I have spent over a third of my life working at the same company. I would be the …
Dividend Income – Oct 2020 Update
October 2020 was unusually dry here in Vancouver with less than 90 mm of precipitation. For the past number of years, we usually got more than 100 mm of precipitation, even over 200 mm in …
Dealing with COVID-19 pandemic – Tips to my Jan-2020-self
It is hard to believe that I have been working from home for the past eight months due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. When my work sent out the work-from-home-until-further-notice email on March 13, I …