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How Much Does It Cost to Be a Stay-at-Home Parent? A financial cost analysis

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As you may know, we are a single-income family where I work full-time and Mrs. T stays home with the kids. For the time being, Mrs. T is staying home with the kids to spend more time with them. Given our single income situation, I …

Dividend Investing, Financial Independence, FIRE, FIRE Canada Interviews, Grow Net Worth, Happiness & Joy, Investing, Money Mindset, Money Successes, Personal Finance, Save Money, Save-Spend Balance, Taxes

FIRE Canada Interview #10 – Kids are as expensive as you let them be

If you have been a time reader, you may recall that I started a financial independence retire early interview series a while ago where I interviewed Canadians who are either financially independent, retired early, or close to these key financial milestones. The reason for the …

Financial Independence, FIRE, FIRE Canada Interviews, Grow Net Worth, Happiness & Joy, Index Investing, Investing, Money Successes, Personal Finance, Retire Early, Taxes, Travels

FIRE Canada Interview # 9 – Relocating to Spain

A while ago, I started a financial independence retire early interview series where I interviewed Canadians who are either financially independent, retired early, or close to these key financial milestones. The reason for the series is to bring more Canadian perspective as I feel there …

Blogging, Financial Independence, FIRE, Happiness & Joy, Money Mindset, Retire Early, Travels, Trips

FinCon 2019 – A Canadian’s Recap

Last week I was in Washington DC for five days and attended the annual personal finance conference – FinCon. I went to FinCon 2017 in Dallas but missed last year’s event in Orlando. This year, I knew I must attend to learn more about blogging …

Dividend Investing, Financial Independence, FIRE, Grow Net Worth, Happiness & Joy, Index Investing, Investing, Money Mindset, Money Successes, Personal Finance, Retire Early, Save Money, Save-Spend Balance, Spend Money, Travel hacking, Travels, Trips

Take care of your future one step at a time

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It’s hard to believe that it is September already, meaning that three quarters of 2019 is almost gone. Over the next couple of days, Baby T1.0 will start Grade 1 and Baby T2.0 will start pre-school. When Baby T1.0 was born, many people told Mrs. …

Dividend Investing, Financial Independence, FIRE, Grow Net Worth, Happiness & Joy, Investing, Life Lessons, Money Mindset, Personal Finance, Save Money, Save-Spend Balance

FI…13 years and 4 Months in the making

“Hmm what the heck did I get myself into?” I thought to myself while walking toward GM Place in downtown Vancouver.

Being uncomfortable in a new surrounding

It was Nov 7, 2001. All around me, many people were dressed in black clothing, some even …

Financial Independence, FIRE, Happiness & Joy, Investing, Money Mindset, Retire Early

How to bulletproof financial plans & combat emotional reactions to stock market volatility

This blog has been in existence for over 5 years. To my surprise, most of these posts I have published have been written by me exclusively. I have only published a few guest blog posts. While I still have some really great ideas to share …

Financial Independence, FIRE, Frugality, Happiness & Joy, Life Lessons, Money Mindset, Personal Finance, Save Money, Save-Spend Balance, Spend Money

I messed up

As a long-running family tradition, my parents gave our kids red envelopes with money inside for Chinese New Year earlier this year. Being a natural saver and thinking about the future, I then took the money and put it in a savings account for them. …

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Q2 2019 Goals and Resolutions Update

Q2 2019 is over which means it’s time to do a Q2 2019 goals and resolutions update. When I published my goals in January, I wasn’t sure if I’d do monthly or quarterly updates. I ended up deciding on quarterly updates because I think quarterly check-ins …

Dividend Investing, Financial Independence, FIRE, Happiness & Joy, Index Investing, Investing, Money Mindset

Dividend Income & Financial Independence Journey update – June 2019

Bang! Just like that the 1H of 2019 is in the books. In case you’re new here, I am doing these monthly updates to keep us honest and demonstrate that it is possible to build up a sizable dividend portfolio so it generates sufficient dividend …

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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.