Healthy Girls

I finally was able to purchase 30 shares of BNS last week.  At this moment I am saving cash to help my mom with a purchase of her condo in Florida, so unfortunately I can't buy much stocks, but at least my dividends automatically reinvesting and building up my existing portfolio. Although I might be able to sell some of my non dividends and maybe some dividends stocks, which already earned enough. So many good stocks are trading at their lowest right now. Since I am trying not to have more than 5% of each stock in my portfolio I have to skip some of good stocks for now because I already have enough of certain stocks or certain industry in my portfolio.  This is why in "stock pics list" you only see certain stocks, which I don't have in my portfolio or want to increase holdings. My favorites for next week: PG, JNJ, DOV, DEO, XOM, GE, RCII, EMR I am also watching WMT, CAT and BUD. What's on your watch list for upcoming week? Thanks for reading...

I was struggling with back pain for years. Every time I would do gardening or running or too many activities my back would hurt a lot. Even on most regular days I would wake up in pain. I thought my mattress was bad or I slept in the wrong position. When the pain got worst, I would use heat pads or take pain medicine. I kept going to chiropractor office, especially after my intense gardening sessions. It would help but still I was constantly in some kind of back pain. I always was leading healthy life style, eating healthy and lots of fruits and vegetables. But about two months ago I decided to stop eating meat, even if I never was a big meat eater and I only ate chicken. Also I stopped drinking milk. I never drank much milk before, mostly just added it to my morning coffee. I made these changes to my diet mostly because I kept reading articles about how animal protein make you age faster. Back in 2014 I posted a video  here  about a woman who is in her 70s, but...

I used this short video to convince my daughter why she should not drink milk anymore.

I wrote  here  about my Dividends Stocks project for my teenager daughter.  Our update We discussed list of stocks I picked for her. I promised that if by the time she will need this money for college her portfolio still will be lagging I will give her my money instead. So she feels pretty safe about investing now.  She got more interested about stock investing after I explained her how her stocks can earn dividends just because she owns them. She likes an idea of getting money without working. Now she is talking how she is going to save more and invest more.  Here is the list of stocks she picked from my list : symbol name current price 1 year target dividend yield SE Spectra Energy $29.69 $36.30 5.00% XOM Exxon $77.77 $90.53 3.70% PG The Procter & Gamble Company $75.57 $85.50 3.30% JNJ Johnson & Johnson $98.38 $109.59 3.00% T ATT $34.18 $37.17 5.50% LHO LaSalle Hotel properties $32.06 $39.50 5.30% EMR Emerson Electric $49.58 $59.52 3.70% We opened a re...

In July I bought shares of SE and COP. I didn't sell any stocks. I started tracking my passive income summer 2014 2014 Passive income June            $261.00 July             $209.67   August        $235.62   September   $212.97 October       $140.37 November   $207.05 December    $377.91 2015 Passive Income January    $167.44 February   $279.29 March       $397.80 April         $202.48 May          $229.70 June         $368.21 Dividends received in July: AUY $2.58 BCE $17.13 GSK $35.45 KO $17.00 NKE $1.56 PM $10.94 UFS $14.53 WFM $3.00 WIN $2.86 CSAL $13.25 $118.30 This is the first month when my dividend income is actually lower than same month in a previous year. Total of  July 2014 was $122.68. Back then I had more of WIN, also ARCP and IGT.  2014...

I am creating a dividends stock list for my daughter. She is 18 years old. Luckily she has 9.5k in savings for her future college use in two years. I am suggesting her to invest in dividend stocks for now. She doesn't believe in dividends investments and she doesn't have much interest. I will be the one who will be managing her account and just showing her the progress. I plan to invest her 9.5k in $1,200 increments, so it means she can own about 8 companies for now. My minimum goal is to make her money work by earning dividends because she has two years ahead of her. This is why I mostly want to concentrate on stocks, which earn more than 3% yield. Maximum goal is to earn on market fluctuations because I plan to pick stocks, which are trading at their lowest or close to lowest now and sell them when they reach near their 1 year target. Below is my list for my daughter as of today August 4 market. As you read above she doesn't know much about stock market and doesn't wa...