I have been spending some time tweaking this blog the last few days. Most of the tweaks are under the hood, some have to do the blog hosting, some have to do with SEO optimization, some have to do with the blog security. Blogging isn’t …

The big news here in Canada this week is that all the Canadian banks reported great quarterly results and many of them raised their dividends. Since we own quite a number of Canadian banking stocks in our dividend portfolio, we are loving these dividend raises!…

This past Sunday Mrs. T and I went to a Vancouver restaurant called Dark Table using a Groupon deal. Mrs. T had previously purchased the deal and gave it to me as Christmas gift. Yes it has taken me almost 2 months to claim my …

This past weekend we visited good friends of ours that just had a baby. It was incredible seeing a 4 day old baby that was so tiny and so adorable. Looking at Baby T, who is almost 16 months old, it seemed eons ago when …

If you live anywhere in North America (and parts of Asia and Europe) you probably have heard of Costco before. Costco is a huge wholesale store that sells pretty much everything and anything you can imagine. Since it’s a wholesale store, 90% of the items …

Last week I shared our story on how we got started with dividend investing. After thinking more about how we got started, I began to wonder what we would do if we were to start dividend investing today. We didn’t get serious with dividend growth …

Wow I can’t believe it’s already the 2nd week of February. Seems to me that January just flew by. Work has been busy as usual but I’m really glad that we’re investing in 50 companies and collecting dividend month over month while we sleep, eat, …

It’s nice to know that Family Day long weekend is upon us. Here in BC, the Family Day long weekend is one week ahead of rest of Canada. It also happens to be one week ahead of the US Presidents’ Day. This was done to …

Since our last round of purchases where we added $415 into our annual dividend income, the markets have continued to be volatile. Due to the recent decline in crude oil price, Bank of Canada even announced that the overnight interest rate between commercial banks …