After a long hot summer in the Pacific Northwest, the clouds, rain, and cool weather are officially back. This means the Tako family’s expenses begin their seasonal increase as the garden now produces fewer vegetables, and our heating costs grow to match the falling temperatures.
It was a golden summer (probably one of the warmest in recent memory) and I spent a lot of quality time with the kids…
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It’s been said that most of major stock market gains happen on just a few fateful days of the year. Miss those few days and you’ll miss-out on most of the gains in the stock market that year. Hence the common advice to always stay invested in the market…
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There are some months when everything in life just comes together. Income is high, spending comes in low and everyone has a ton of fun. Those months you just can’t help but say to yourself, “I’m winning at life!”
Then there are other months when the car breaks, the roof leaks, you lose your job, and the dentist sends you a big-assed bill…
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Hello, Mr. Tako is my name and financial manipulation is my game. At least in May it was.
Yep, it’s time once again for another monthly financial update, and this one is a doozy! If there was a theme to the month of May, is has to have to been “financial manipulation” because our numbers look completely crazy this time around…
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Most of the time when I write one of these monthly income and expense reports I say, “The month flew by!” But this time around the month of April just drug on… and on … and on. It seemed like April lasted 2 or 3 months instead of the usual 30 day period.
I have no idea why…
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Yup, it’s that time again! Dividend Income and Expense time! For those of you who don’t follow this blog regular-like, this is a regular monthly post where I detail the Tako family’s expenses for the entire month. I also detail how much passive income we earned in the form of dividends.
Why do I do this? Why not?!
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Yes, it’s that time again — The beginning of whole new month! Typically I put out a Dividend Income and Expense post at the beginning of every month, but this month I’m a little behind schedule.
I wanted to finish the post on Winning The Thermostat War first, so this post was a little delayed…
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Yes, it’s time once again for our regular monthly “Dividend Income and Expenses” post. In this post, I’ll lay out our January 2018 dividend income and expenses in excruciating detail for the world to see!
These kinds of monthly expense reports are common on personal finance blogs, but I believe they are extremely instructive for readers. There’s tons of financial lessons to be learned just by watching how other people spend their money…
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December is the time of year for food, families, and fun. Oh, and breaks from blogging too! I decided to take the last two weeks of December “off” from blogging, and focus on family this year. It was great to have a break from blogging and my regular stay-at-home-dad routine.
Like last year, we stuck to our usual modus operandi — having a rock-socking fabulous time all-the-while keeping our spending low…
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