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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Back in mid-January, when I started hearing about COVID-19 spreading in China, I naively thought it would be something similar to what we experienced with SARS. Then in late February when COVID-19 started to spread …
Wow, what a difference a month makes. In the middle of February, the market was breaking all-time-highs. Then a month later, we were seeing stock exchanges being halted multiple times each week because of panic …
If you’re like us, you have been busy practising social distancing and staying at home as a way to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Since March 14, Mrs. T and I have …
Since my last post about COVID-19, a lot of things have happened. The World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the US and Canadian stock exchanges were halted multiple times due to panic selling, …
The recession is coming, it’s time to freak out! OK, I’m kidding of course. Is the recession coming? Honestly, I have no idea, but the market sure has turned from ugly to downright dreadful in …
The financial independence retire early movement is getting a lot of attention lately. While it’s nice to see the movement gaining traction, I feel most of the major media coverage has been very early retirement …
February was a fun month for our family. We went snowboarding and skiing a couple of times at the local mountains. On the first outing, Baby T1.0 tried snowboarding (his 2nd time) and Baby T2.0 …
