When to sell dividend stocks – my perspective
If you have been reading this blog for a while, you know that, for the most part, we are long-term, buy-and-hold investors. Once we invest in a company, we try to build up our position …
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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Would You Take $2 Million for 60-hour Work Weeks? Answering Life’s Toughest Money Dilemmas
The other day, we were playing That Escalated Quickly, in which one player would pick a question card, the other players would pick out a number card from 1 to 10 and come up with …
DIY Wealth Canada Podcast – Best Canadian Dividend Stocks
Some of you may recall that I listed 13 Best Canadian Dividend Stocks here on the blog. I believe these 13 dividend stocks will provide investors with solid long-term returns. On the DIY Wealth Canada …
Dividend Income – October 2025 Update
Hello everyone, welcome to another monthly dividend income update. Can you believe that we’re now in the final stretch of 2025? I feel like 2025 has flown by in the blink of an eye. Who …
Early Retirement Q&A with Dividend Daddy
The financial independence retire early (FIRE) community is a very supportive and tight-knit one. Because the community is made up of folks who have different backgrounds and different ages, it’s very diverse (not just Caucasian …
Avoiding 25 big investment & retirement mistakes
Before I started blogging, I used to read many different personal finance and investing blogs. Over the years, some of these blogs have disappeared or changed ownership. One blog that is still around that I …
2025 Goals and Resolutions – Q3 Update
With Q3 2025 in the books, it is time for a quarterly update on my 2025 goals and resolutions. For those of you who are new, since 2019, I have set goals and resolutions at …