Since January I have been building my dividend ETF positions, but with the year over halfway finished, I have decided to go back to individual stock purchases for the remainder of 2023 (July 1+). There are a couple of reasons, but the main being that…
Over the past few years, I have accumulated a ton of tiny little positions. This may annoy some investors, but it actually doesn’t really bother me. They have been accumulated from my dividend screening process which changes year over year. While I made a conscious…
I had three goals for 2023 with regards to my family’s cash flow. They were to figure out my monthly savings schedule, figure out how much of my cash flow is going to debt servicing, and lastly, a full audit of my monthly subscriptions. Last…
One of my goals this year was to get a rehandle on the simple topic of cash flow. For me, this breaks down into three simple subjects: To be frank, the idea of figuring out my automatic savings seems like the easiest of those threes…
I’m pretty pissed at myself as I start to write this post. How the hell did another month go by without accomplishing any part of my 2023 goal of getting control over my cash flow? Thoughts before Calculating: I am pretty sure this is going to…
I can’t believe we are a month into the new year already. January absolutely flew. I am writing this post from a hotel room with my daughter pumped to go skiing in the morning! For the first time in months, if not longer, I looked…
Writing & publishing this post on the 23rd day of the new year already means I let myself down. Time to step it up! If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable. – Seneca When I had my old site…
With a new month and new year upon us, it is time to take a look how my family’s finances have done month over month as well as year over year. I think I’ll save my goals and objectives for a different post. Thoughts before…
Every year I like to change how I screen for my future undervalued stock purchases. For my 2021 Dividend Growth Screen I started with those companies with 20+ years of dividend growth history and then screened against the following metrics: Company has to have a…
I prepared both my calcs and this update a few days late. I was going to skip all together but I did that a few months ago and figured I shouldn’t make it a habit. Pretty sure this is going to be a negative month,…