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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This is my fourth year of writing an annual financial review. In 2016 we spent $47,566.96 CAD and our net worth grew by +34.4%; in 2017 we spent $51,144.77 CAD and our net worth grew …
It’s hard to believe 2019 is over. In many ways, it felt that the year flew by so quickly. At the beginning of 2019, I set out some challenging goals and resolutions that I wanted …
As long time readers may know, we could be financially independent now, but we have decided to delay this major financial milestone. Essentially, rather than expedite our financial independence retire early (FIRE) journey, we decided …
A happy new year and happy new decade everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays and spent some time with family and friends. Just like November, I did a lot of travel in December. First, …
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 …
Since our financial epiphany, we have tracked our expenses using a self-made excel sheet. Within this excel spreadsheet, we have established different categories like grocery, household items, eating out, hydro, car fuel, etc to allow …
In a few days, it will be Christmas and 2020 will be just around the corner. For me, 2019 has been a great year and I have to thank everyone for visiting this blog. This …
