Money and Finance
I know I'm a little early on this since I have a few more years until I reach financial independence; however, it doesn't hurt to at least have the ideas floating around beforehand. There's a few school's of thought on early retirement. Some people prefer to have all their expenses covered from investment or other passive income sources while others prefer to have a good chunk of their expenses covered and have the rest covered by part-time work whether at the same job but scaled back or a new one altogether.
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- Why Dividend Growth Investing Is Awesome!
There's lots of reasons to love receiving dividends from your portfolio. For starters they are a truly passive income source. You don't have to go around making sales calls or doing paperwork for the company. All you have to do is invest...
- Plans For Financial Independence
Most of those that visit my blog are working towards a specific end goal, I know I am. That goal for the majority of us is financial independence. Financial independence can mean different things to different people. To me financial independence...
- Income Update - December 2012
December's income was lower than what I'd averaged through the first 11 months of 2012 but was still great at almost $6,500. It wasn't a great month for expenses but considering how much I went over budget on a few areas I'm happy that...
- Income Update - November 2012
November's income was higher than my average so far for the year which is great because I'm still able tor reduce my expenses so every extra dollar of income gets to be converted into savings mainly dividend growth investing capital. Not only...
- Income Update - June 2012
June was a good month for my spending. My income was way up and due to being on vacation for 2 weeks using savings earmarked for it my expenses were down as well. My minimum expenses for the month totaled only $1,252.68 and my total expenses were only...
Money and Finance
Margin of Safety with Financial Independence
I know I'm a little early on this since I have a few more years until I reach financial independence; however, it doesn't hurt to at least have the ideas floating around beforehand. There's a few school's of thought on early retirement. Some people prefer to have all their expenses covered from investment or other passive income sources while others prefer to have a good chunk of their expenses covered and have the rest covered by part-time work whether at the same job but scaled back or a new one altogether.
Read more »
- Why Dividend Growth Investing Is Awesome!
There's lots of reasons to love receiving dividends from your portfolio. For starters they are a truly passive income source. You don't have to go around making sales calls or doing paperwork for the company. All you have to do is invest...
- Plans For Financial Independence
Most of those that visit my blog are working towards a specific end goal, I know I am. That goal for the majority of us is financial independence. Financial independence can mean different things to different people. To me financial independence...
- Income Update - December 2012
December's income was lower than what I'd averaged through the first 11 months of 2012 but was still great at almost $6,500. It wasn't a great month for expenses but considering how much I went over budget on a few areas I'm happy that...
- Income Update - November 2012
November's income was higher than my average so far for the year which is great because I'm still able tor reduce my expenses so every extra dollar of income gets to be converted into savings mainly dividend growth investing capital. Not only...
- Income Update - June 2012
June was a good month for my spending. My income was way up and due to being on vacation for 2 weeks using savings earmarked for it my expenses were down as well. My minimum expenses for the month totaled only $1,252.68 and my total expenses were only...