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I am a dual Canadian/British citizen who came to Canada in 2011.

When I hit the ripe old age of 50 I realised that my pensions were not going to be able to sustain me and my family. This blog details my attempts to generate some passive income that will hopefully go some way to bridge the gap between what my pensions will provide and I what I think I will need to sustain my retirement lifestyle.

This blog will focus on dividend investing but may also branch out into other areas of passive income generation, like print on demand, and whatever else takes my fancy.

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October 2021 Dividend Update

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 A very brief update this month as I am out-of-town. October was the second proper month of my dividend investing strategy. I had estimated that I would receive around CAD 380 in dividends and the actual value was CAD 374. Here's is the graph of dividend earnings to date.     
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Thank you, my Australian buyer

This blog was always meant to be more than just dividend income but I've yet to post anything other than that. Not because I haven't done anything but rather that the other methods of generating passive income are either not developed yet or haven't brought in enough money to be worth reporting. Print On Demand falls into the latter category. I've been dabbling in it for almost a year but the total income it has brought in is.....wait for it..... $3.29. Yes, that's a whole $3.29. Thank you to my unknown Australian buyer! It is actually quite humbling to know that someone in a far away land is wearing a t-shirt with one of your designs on it. Print On Demand (POD) is one of those areas that, if you go by Youtube videos, promises to be an easy, surefire way to generate passive income. Slap together some designs, upload them to Redbubble and the other POD sites and watch the money roll in. It's not like that at all. Well, not for the majority. I'm sure there ar...
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April 2022 Dividend Income Update

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Total dividends received for April 2022 was $456. No quarterly dividends to boost the numbers this month. April was tax return time too and it brought with it the fact that according to the CRA I had exceeded my TFSA contribution limit by $250. That was a poor bit of book-keeping on my part and I have now improved the way I record money entering and leaving the TFSAs. And I've removed the excess $250. Hopefully, the fine won't be too much.
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