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2023 Dividend Income Wrap-up

Who Paid Me As of 01/5/2024? Images gathered on Google Images Hey Everone, Thank you for reading! In this blog, I have graphs that I made with tools I built. I have put these tools online through Patreon (click me!). Through the Patreon pledge, I offer a series of tools that I hope can aid your…
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My Investment Plan For 2024

As we come to the end of the year 2023, man, has it been a year with many major life events. I got married to my lovely wife, we moved to the DMV area, my wife graduated, she also got her big girl job, and we got a puppy!!! Entering the new year, there are…
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How Much Dividends I Received In November from My Dividend Growth Investing Portfolio

Who Paid Me As of 11/10/2023? Images gathered on Google Images Hey Everone, Thank you for reading! In this blog, I have graphs that I made with tools I built. I have put these tools online through Patreon (click me!). Through the Patreon pledge, I offer a series of tools that I hope can aid your…
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How Much Dividends I Received In October from My Dividend Growth Investing Portfolio

Who Paid Me As of 11/10/2023? Images gathered on Google Images Hey Everone, Thank you for reading! In this blog, I have graphs that I made with tools I built. I have put these tools online through Patreon (click me!). Through the Patreon pledge, I offer a series of tools that I hope can aid your…
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How and Why I Invest

Why Do I Invest? Whenever you do something, you do it for a reason. There is a clear goal at the end of that rainbow and you have a method of how you will achieve that goal. With investing, generally, most don’t have a goal or methods. I didn’t when I first started, no no…
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How Much Dividends I Received In September from My Dividend Growth Investing Portfolio

Who Paid Me As of 10/3/2023? Images gathered on Google Images Hey Everone, Thank you for reading! In this blog, I have graphs that I made with tools I built. I have put these tools online through Patreon (click me!). Through the Patreon pledge, I offer a series of tools that I hope can aid…
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A Rant About Student Loan Debt

Gen-Z Living A Life of Paying Back Student Loans One of the biggest concerns I have with an upcoming/likely recession is that student loan payments are being turned back on in October with interest rates starting in September. Terrible and truly awful. Millions of young people are now being forced to pay the minimum payment,…
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How Much Dividends I Received In August from My Dividend Growth Investing Portfolio

Who Paid Me? Images gathered on Google Images. August heat means dividends must be neat. Quiet dividend month only getting 4 paychecks that were reinvested into the stock. The biggest paycheck was $5.82 from AIR Products & Chemicals (APD) at 3.33 shares. The second largest was from Lowes getting $5.38 at 4.89 shares. These two…
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Funds For Fun Portfolio Update #6

Funds For Fun Update: August 27th, 2023 Hi Everyone! To be transparent, I will share bi-weekly updates of my “Funds For Fun” portfolio account that I hold on M1 Finance. I treat this account as a super high total return saving’s account. I use an M1 finance account (Sign up today and get $10 for free!) because it…
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How Much Dividends I Received In July from My Dividend Growth Investing Portfolio

Who Paid Me? Images gathered on Google Images. Over halfway through the year, and my total dividend income is $228.61, including July’s dividend checks. A year ago, I was happy with 50 cents or a dollar. Now I am getting dividend checks that are $5, $10, and even in the $20s. Dividend Growth Investing (DGI)…
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