For the past 3 to 4 years, my wife and I have been tracking our family’s net worth here on The Money Sprout. At first, we tracked our net worth once every 3 months or so. Then about 2 years ago, we decided to get serious about reaching financial independence (FI) and started tracking it […]
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Often times when we hear the word “diversification”, we tend to think only about our stock portfolio and other investments … myself included. But have you ever given a thought about diversification when it comes to earning income? Personally, I believe that having a multiple streams of income is just as important as a having […]
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At the conclusion of every month, I publish an update of our dividend income portfolio. This portfolio of “mostly awesome” stocks currently consists of 35+ publicly traded companies and is part of our long term financial independence (FI) plan. One day in the future, my wife and I plan to use our dividend income stream […]
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A few weeks ago, my youngest son and I had the privilege of interviewing my grandfather for a school assignment called the “Living History Project”. The assignment was to interview a person who had lived through a historical event. The event needed to be something significant that impacted people around the world. My son picked […]
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At the end of August last year (2017) … my wife and I started our travel hacking journey. This journey started when we opened our first credit card that offered bonus points for hitting a minimum spend amount within the first 90 days. Considering we use our credit cards for 90% or more of our […]
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