Years ago, Mrs. T and I spent two weeks in Italy for our honeymoon. When we were planning the trip, we wanted to spend four or five days in the Tuscany region. Since both of us loved cooking, we thought that participating in Italian … Continue Reading

If you’re a Canadian, you may know a tax-advantage savings account called the Registered Educational Savings Plan (RESP). The RESPs are for parents who want to save for their child’s post-secondary education. When you open an RESP for your child, you are eligible for the … Continue Reading

At the beginning of this year, Mrs. T and I looked at our dividend income history and came up with a very challenging and ambitious goal for this year. We believed by saving money every month and investing that money, combined with organic dividend growth … Continue Reading

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 focus. I think this is paints a very bad … Continue Reading

I hope everyone is staying healthy and practising social distancing despite some countries have slowly eased on the stay-home orders. I also hope everyone is speaking up against all the social injustices rather than staying silent and hope things will get shoved under the rug. … Continue Reading

I don’t typically write politically related articles here on this blog but as someone who is not a Caucasian and clearly a visible minority, I think it’s more than important for me to write this post. If some readers decide to unfollow this blog, unfollow … Continue Reading

For those of you who are new here, we got really serious with dividend growth investing in 2011. That year, we moved some cash in our savings accounts to buy dividend paying stocks. Back then, we received $675.21 in dividend income from a total … Continue Reading

The other night, Mrs. T and I were sitting on the couch having hygge when we started talking about our financial independence retire early journey. We have been on our financial independence retire early journey for close to nine years. Looking back, we were very … Continue Reading

I got the idea for this post from Penny at She Picks up Pennies. With COVID-19 not going away any time soon, I figured it would be a good idea to examine some creative ways that we saved and earned during the pandemic, and … Continue Reading

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 focus. I think this is paints a very bad … Continue Reading