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Still not much going on with the markets. Same old same old … Some key points to highlight.
- Coca-Cola (KO) just executed their announced split. It makes the stock more accessible to small investors. It also allows for an easier DRIP.
- TMX purchase is now complete.
- Bell Canada (BCE) increased dividends.
- Anything else worthy to highlight?
A couple of weeks ago, I discussed how I want to bring lunch to the office. So far, I have not been at the office much to evaluate my progress. On vacation, we did pretty well though at cooking ourselves and not going to the resto. For the sake of holding myself accountable, I’ll just be highlighting how it went during my weekly.
- Last week, I ate lunch twice at the office
- This week, all cooked meals except for one family meal at the resto
On the vacation side, I spent a whopping $760 in gas this last month and that included filling up south of the border a number of times. Our usual gas spending is around $350 per month.
Worthy Readings
Some weekend reading to share … Also worth highlighting that I Love Dividends has an updated site: ‘I Love Dividends‘. The ex-dividend is a great tool for balancing your monthly income if that’s important.
- Boomer & Echo with ‘Celebrating Two Years Of Boomer & Echo‘
- Web Ninja with ‘The Web Ninja $200 Amazon Giveaway ‘
- Dividend Ninja with ‘Recent Buy: CLF, BNS and RY‘
- Dividend Growth Investor with ‘Exxon Mobil (XOM) Dividend Stock Analysis 2012‘
- Retire Happy Blog with ‘Retirement: Ready or not?‘
- Dividend Monk with ‘Three Insurance Stocks Quietly Raising Dividends Year After Year‘
- The Loonie Bin with ‘BCE Made My Day‘
- My Own Advisor with ’How many dividend stocks are enough?‘
- The Dividend Guy with ‘3 Dividend Traps You Must Avoid‘
- Vix Money with ‘CBO – iShares 1-5 Year Laddered Corporate Bond Index Fund‘
Also featured in the following carnivals (2 weeks worth of link back!).
- Canadian PF Happy Hour at Canadian Personal Finance
- Carn. of Financial Camaraderie at My University Money
- Carnival of MoneyPros at Aaron Hung.com
- Carnival of Retirement at Young Family Finance
- Festival of Frugality at CashNet USA
- Wealth Artisan’s FinCarn at Wealth Artisan
- Y & T’s Weekend Ramblings at Young and Thrifty
- Yakezie Carnival at The College Investor
- Canadian PF Happy Hour at Canadian Personal Finance
- Carnival of Financial Planning at The Skilled Investor
- Carnival of MoneyPros at Finance Product Reviews
- Carnival of Retirement at Debt Black Hole
- Nerdy Finance Carnival at Nerdy Finance Carnival
- Wealth Artisan’s FinCarn at Wealth Artisan
- Y & T’s Weekend Ramblings at Young and Thrifty
- Yakezie Carnival at See Debt Run
Have a nice weekend!
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Wow, that’s a bundle in gas but when you’re travelling, you gotta have petro in the vehicle. I’ll be on the road later this year, surely I’ll pay bundle in gas as well.
Thanks for the mention, travel safely.
Mark
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Nice work on the cooking at home! I find, especially in the summer, that it is so much easier to be lazy and eat out! Thanks for the mention!
Great job on the cooking on vacation ! Eating out only once is a GREAT feat, it’s hard not to want to grab easy, yummy food on vaca.
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