Today we’re going to do our best to create some realistic, though challenging personal finance goals for ourselves. After completing 5/6 goals in 2020 and being fairly close on the numbers we’re going to be trying to use that momentum and push ourselves just a little bit further in 2021. These goals may not all […]
Continue ReadingReviewing our 2020 goals – Achieving 5 of 6!
Is a year ever a long time? 2020 being an extraordinary year in many many ways, with all of the ups and downs through covid, the ensuing stock market crash and recovery and the tanking of oil that led to layoffs in my workplace by the time we’ve reached the finish line I honestly can’t […]
Continue ReadingWe’ve made it to coast FIRE – A financial independence milestone
So I’ve seen a few instagram posts recently that mentioned various stages of FIRE and where different people rank on this climb to total financial freedom. One of the major milestones (in my eyes anyways) is “coast FIRE” which in my opinion is the first step of financial freedom not counting just being debt free. […]
Continue ReadingReviewing our $264,000+ investment portfolio – Dividends and Index Funds
Hello all and welcome back to another look into our investment portfolios! Today we’re going to be doing things a tiny bit different. If you’ve followed along with our journey over the past couple of years and have seen net worth updates from us you’ll know that we’re invested above and beyond just our dividend […]
Continue ReadingMonthly Spend Report – July 2020 (A wedding and vacation)
Welcome back for the July iteration of our monthly spending reports. This spend report just highlights how inconsistent spending can be as we were all over the map on where we spent our money this month. This month featured a vacation and a wedding in a Covid-19 world. Let’s take a look at the damage […]
Continue ReadingPassive Income Report – July 2020
Throughout these updates we will go over the previous month’s dividend income, as well as our rolling 12 month projected dividend income and our progress towards our goal of having $50,000 in annual passive income. For reference, I received my first ever dividend payment in December 2017, and I immediately realized that they needed to be a prominent […]
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