September 2014

Blogging

The Versatile Blogger Award

I got nominated for The Versatile Blogger Award. Thank you for the nomination! For this award nomination I’m suppose to share 7 new interesting things that I haven’t share with my readers before. I meant to publish this post earlier but life has been a …

Dividend Investing, Investing

Recent Buy – Telus

Here I am sitting in Minneapolis airport waiting to board my last flight home. The last few days has been pretty crazy. Luckily I’ve made some great progress toward all the critical issues so my customer returned my Canadian passport, let me out of …

Dividend Investing, Personal Finance, Save Money

Living the dream… or not

Wow I’m absolutely exhausted!

Work has been a little insane for the past two weeks. My manager is away on vacation so I’ve been managing his projects for him. At the same time, I’m also managing my own sets of projects. Looking after multiple projects …

Frugality, Save Money

iPhone 6 craze – does it make sense?

Now that iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have been released I’m seeing a lot of pictures of people showing off their iPhone 6 on Facebook and Twitter. I’ve also been seeing a lot of pictures of people waiting in line overnight just so they …

Dividend Investing, Grow Net Worth, Investing, Personal Finance

Power of dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP)

I’ll start the blog post with a quote from one of the smartest men that ever lived.

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.” – Albert Einstein.

If you have …

Frugality, Travels

Frugal Travel Tips for Italy

I love exploring new places, learning about different cultures, and talking to the locals. No wonder I love traveling! There are so many things you can learn from traveling; these are things that you cannot learn from sitting in a classroom or from reading a …

Frugality, Grow Net Worth, Personal Finance, Save Money

Getting married 3 times for cheap – Part 1

Weddings, the reunion of two people, is one of the biggest celebrations and happiest days in our lives. This is why a lot of people justify spending a ton of money on their wedding day.

According to Wedding Bells the average cost of a wedding …

Frugality, Happiness & Joy

Is Facebook doing you any good?

We don’t own a TV at home and we don’t usually read news. Mrs. T and I are not ignorant, we simply think that 99% of all news are sad and depressing. Because the sad and depressing nature, we decided that there’s no point wasting …

Dividend Investing, Investing

August dividend update

It’s September already and that means fall is just around the corner. It has been a pretty good summer here in West Coast of Canada. Lots of sunshine and hot weather. We also had a few spectacular thunderstorms. It’s beginning of the month and that …

About me

Hello, my name is Bob. I'm from Vancouver Canada. This is a personal finance blog where I chronicle my quest for joyful life and financial independence.

In 2011, my wife and I had a financial epiphany and started our financial independence retire early (FIRE) journey. Since then, we have amassed a dividend portfolio that generates over $1,900 per month.

I wanted to use this blog to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve financial independence as a single income family with two young kids while living in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

Some of the topics I write are: financial independence retire early (FIRE), dividend & index investing, money mindset, save-spend balance, and travels.