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Good Evening,

After my wife graciously allowed me to invest $16,000 into stocks back around May, we have been slowly building back up cash reserves and slowly buying stocks.  After we updated our 401K investments to lower our taxable income, there has been less money around to invest into the taxable accounts.  Over the past 2 months, we have only made two purchases:

Waking Up Stress Free

Hi Everyone,

As I have eluded to in previous posts, work has been crazy busy recently. 

I just finished helping my company put together a large proposal on work ranging in the $100+ million range.  Unfortunately, this has caused me to work more hours than usual and spend less time doing things that I enjoy.  The stress and long hours put a strain on my physical and mental state.  I was tired all the time and the only thing I wanted to do was ESCAPE! 

Saying Thank You to MMM

Where to begin?

If you read my May dividend income post, you noticed that I was quite busy over the past 2 months.  Blogging will always come second to living life but during this sabbatical, I did some of the most eye opening early retirement reading of my entire life.

I read Mr. Money Mustache from the first post to the last in a span of 2 months!!

Dividend Income - June 2016 Update

Hi Everyone,

Quick update since I just gave you all the run down in the post 5 minutes ago...

Absolutely killed it!!!   This months total came in at $689.79!!  which is an increase of 46% compared to last year and a 17% increase compared to last quarter!

June Dividend Income:

Total: $689.79


Big positives from last year include new positions in:  BA, AMGN, PH, STAG, WBA, MMM, UNP.  Holy cow, that's alot!!

I also invested more into:  XOM, ADM, & DOV.

UA paid a special dividend to shareholders due to the C class shares and the 401K funds all increased their payouts from last year!

BOOM!  Almost $700 in one month.  Truly remarkable to see!  To think that All of our guaranteed monthly expenses are paid for, minus the mortgage is incredible.  No longer have to worry about Electric, Gas, Water, Phone, Internet, Car Insurance, and some of our food.  Fantastic.  Now, this is only 4 months out of the year right now but we are slowly creeping up there!

All told, there was an increase of $216.64 from last year, and $98.76 from last quarter!  Gotta love the growth!

Jump over to our dividend income page to see the increases month after month. There is also a nice chart on that page for all you visual learners out there. On that page, you can easily see dividend income investing at work which hopefully one day will be greater than our expenses and that's what we like to call The American Dividend Dream! Check out our complete portfolio here.


How was your June?

Thanks,
ADD

Dividend Income - May 2016 Update

Hi Everyone,

My apologies to everyone stopping by and expecting new material here at the site. 

It has been a hectic two months.  My mother in law was living with us for 1.5 months, work was nuts, my grandfather was having medical issues so he needed extra care for.  His basement flooded and we opened up his pool/took care of lingering maintenance around his place.  Continuing the excuses, we took a long weekend to the beach, we planted a vegetable garden and did spring cleaning on all the windows, doors, garage, basement, you name it.  And finally, the best of all...  we were just trying to live life.  Bike rides/walks/spending time with friends who just had babies, you name it, we probably did it. 

Unfortunately for the readers out there, the blog takes back seat to living. 

After the "My wife is awesome post" below, I'd like her as well as you all out there know that those particular investments are up over $1,000 in less than two months!  If we sold now, it would have taken 35 years to make that in interest from the bank.  If that alone does not give you proof that you should invest, I don't know what will.  Granted, the market could have collapsed over 2 months, but then again we would still have that $1,000 of dividends every year to make up for it.  I'm still a believer of investing!

Any way, lets get down to the numbers....

This months total came in at $344.29!!  which is an increase of 34% compared to last year! 

May Dividend Income:

Total: $344.29


Big positives from last year, I invested heavily into OHI, a purchase of AAPL and HCP.  Losses from GLP and  KMI offset some of the gains or else we really would have had a blowout month.

All told, there was an increase of $87.11 from last year!  Gotta love the growth!

Jump over to our dividend income page to see the increases month after month. There is also a nice chart on that page for all you visual learners out there. On that page, you can easily see dividend income investing at work which hopefully one day will be greater than our expenses and that's what we like to call The American Dividend Dream! Check out our complete portfolio here.


How was your May?

Thanks,
ADD