Next to housing, one of our biggest annual expenses is transportation. This includes car payments, insurance, maintenance, and even the price of gas to fill up our vehicles. Overall, our annual transportation costs comes in as our 3rd highest expense category … well behind housing (#1) and close to food (#2). Unlike with our housing […]
Continue ReadingFor most of my adult life, I have had good credit. To be honest, I can’t ever remember my credit score ever being below 760 … although I never kept detailed records.I’m not saying this to brag. But there are a lot of benefits to having good credit. For example, my wife and I have […]
Continue ReadingAt the end of every month … I try and publish the results of our dividend income portfolio. More specifically … I post the dividend income (by stock) that we earned for the prior month. My wife and I have been investing (and tracking) the amount of monthly dividend income we earn … ever since […]
Continue ReadingBuying and holding blue chip dividend stocks has been an investment strategy my wife and I have been using for over the past decade.Most of the time … this strategy is boring to other investors. The companies that we invest in (with the exception of a few) are not high growth stocks that will double […]
Continue ReadingHow many investment accounts do you have? If you are anything like me … then I’m sure you’ve opened and tested out all kinds of different accounts.For over the past decade I have opened numerous investment accounts for one reason or another. Most of these were traditional brokerage accounts … or non-retirement accounts as some […]
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