Minimalism and financial independence go hand in hand. In order to reach financial independence, you are more than likely going to need to develop some minimalist habits. I’m not saying that you have to live in a 500 square foot tiny home with all white walls and no furniture … but you are going to […]
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At the end of each month, I publish an update of our dividend income portfolio. This portfolio of “awesome” stocks currently consists of 35+ publicly traded companies and is part of our long term financial independence (FI) plan. One of the things I really enjoy about investing for income is that when the market drops […]
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A few weeks ago, my youngest son and I had the opportunity to interview my grandfather for a class project. My son’s class was tasked with interviewing someone who had lived through a historic event. We decided to interview my grandfather … who along with my grandmother both lived through The Great Depression. We found […]
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When it comes to the financial independence community, I feel that investing in dividend stocks (as opposed to index funds) gets a bad rap. Too often I hear complaints that earning dividend income is not worth it because of the tax implications. Some of those concerns are certainly valid. For example, an individual who doesn’t […]
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The majority of questions I get asked here on The Money Sprout are about our dividend income stream. More specifically, readers are interested in knowing the specifics of how I calculate our income growth projections. For example, I often provide dividend income estimates for the next year by tracking our 12 month forward dividend income […]
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