Personal finance, the fundation of Tawcan.com. Personal finance is and should be personal. A list of personal finance related topics and tips that we can all learn from.
How do we manage to find money to invest in dividend paying stocks when we are a single income family? Simple, by being frugal whenever we can. We are all about living frugally and trying …
Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin 1789. When I wrote about our financial independence assumptions back in July, many readers asked if we were taking taxes into consideration. As …
I’ll be honest. Although I grew up in Canada for more than half of my life, I still don’t quite understand the concept of tipping. Tipping is not a common practice in Taiwan (or anywhere …
Since gotten my first credit card many years ago, I have always followed my dad’s advice – use the credit card like a debit card and pay off the full amount at end of each month. Personally …
The word expensive is an adjective describing something that costs a lot of money. What does it mean by “costs a lot of money?” I believe the word expensive is relative. Because our perception of what …
I have a confession to make today – I have serious beef with many personal finance gurus. I totally disagree with the following advice many of them give: use cash, do not use credit cards. Today …
This article is inspired by Mark’s recent post on his blog where he revisited their financial independence assumptions. I have shared some numbers on this little blog of mine in the past like the Early Retirement/Financial Independence …