Tawcan is a Canadian personal finance and dividend investing blog that chronicles my quest for financial independence and joyful life.

I started this blog to show it is possible to achieve financial independence as a single-income family with two young kids while living in Vancouver Canada, one of the most expensive cities in the world.

My wife and I started building our dividend portfolio in 2011 after a financial epiphany.

Today, the portfolio generates over $4,500 in dividends per month. Our dream is to become financially independent and live off dividends by 2025.

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Happiness is not a fish you can catch

I’ll start today’s article with a quote from Dalai Lama. Everybody wants happy life. Sometimes the people – in order to achieve happy life, successful life, entirely relying on external means – money, power or …

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So my parents called me boring…

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When we moved to our current house in October it meant that we would be living closer to my parents. It used to take them about an hour to drive to visit us, now it only takes …

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Happy Holidays

This is what Christmas means to us. The most important part of Christmas is something Mrs. T brought with her from Denmark. It is called “Hygge”. There is no English word that hygge can be translated …

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Boom Shakalaka

I was just doing the usual mid-month dividend update on my dividend excel sheet and found that we have officially reached our $8,000 annual dividend goal for 2014! BOOM SHAKALAKA!   As of today we have …

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Creating a legacy – dividend portfolio for kid(s)

When I first started investing in dividend paying stocks, I kept coming across statements like the one below to show how powerful dividend reinvesting is. If you invested $5000 in (Insert a stock symbol) in …

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November dividend update

It’s hard to believe it’s already December. With all the work travels in November, the month seemed to have flown by. In November, I added $6,500 in our dividend portfolio. Unfortunately the overall stock markets continued …

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