Using Dividend-Paying Stocks for Income + MORE

Just a reminder that Wealth Lion has posts on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Here are the latest ones:

My Current Asset Allocation – Where my assets are currently — index funds, real esate, etc. — in detail.
The Flow of Wealth – The life cycle of how money comes into our lives and then is hopefully converted into income we retire on…

“How did you make 995 percent on that trade?”
We have a new, young employee in the office. He’s just learning the ropes.
When he saw that subscribers had made 995 percent on a stock recommendation, he wanted to know how we did it.
I assume he asked because he’s young, and he’d love to get a few gains like that under his belt…

Last week I talked about how the key to wealth is to “own something.” When you have assets that are producing income for you on a regular basis, you are able to outsource tasks, free up time, not be a slave to a 9-5 job you do not enjoy, and ultimately have the freedom to spend your time as you please…

I became a vegetarian at three years old. My mom made the mistake of telling me what I was eating when I was chowing down on my turkey sandwich and it was game over after that.
I’d loved animals from a young age, so that’s where my vegetarianism started, but as I got older it became less and less about animals and more about health, social responsibility, and texture of meat (I’m picky)…

I have been following emerging technologies a long time.
Put it this way, one of the first grail-like goals a systems engineer at a major memory chip company revealed to me was how they wanted to put 1 gigabyte of memory on a chip. They hoped to accomplish that task in a decade.
Well, it didn’t take them a decade…

Not everyone has a chance to become a millionaire.
A few weeks ago, I was invited to join a panel on this topic – Can you retire with a million dollars? I was on vacation at the time so I couldn’t attend, but my answer is a big YES. Of course you will have a perfectly fine retirement with a million dollars…

The American divorce rate has hovered above 50 percent for the past several years. While the reasons couples make the decision to split can vary, researchers note that even the healthiest relationships can fall apart because of something that shouldn’t really relate to love: money.
A study, titled “Examining the Relationship Between Financial Issues and Divorce,” from Kansas State University examined data from 4,500 couples included in the National Survey of Families and Households…

Matt Stokes is a freelance writer, editor, blogger, and TV producer in New Orleans. His first novel, Generation Why, is a humorous look at the difficulties of college graduates in the 2010s who don’t know what to do with their lives. The book came out in 2012 and is available from Amazon. Follow him on Twitter @mattstokes9…

This summer, you can expect to spend as much as 60% more on the meat you purchase for your backyard barbecue than you did last year. Why? Because of last year’s drought, corn prices skyrocketed and many farmers were forced to cut the sizes of their herds. Consequently, the beef supply has suffered…

Welcome to Wise Bread’s Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some fantastic articles on tech tips for job hunting, how to find the right roommate, and lowering your cooling costs.
Top 5 Articles
10 Tech Tips for Job Hunting — When job hunting online, remember to be professional on all your social media accounts and use LinkedIn…

When you buy computers, electronics or appliances, you will likely be asked if you’d like to get an extended warranty for it. This is common practice upon check out at many stores. It seems like it might be a good idea because you worry about what happens if it breaks. Will you have to buy a new one? And how expensive will that be?
However, the reality is that extended warranties are rarely worth the money…

Girl Ninja and I agreed to pay all closing costs associated with the purchase of our first home. Now that we are approaching the final stretch of this purchasing process (we sign papers tomorrow), we’ve received the paperwork that breaks down all these pesky fees. Spoiler alert: It ain’t pretty…

Remember the $1.69 million three bedroom, two bathroom condo I used as an example in “How To Correctly Value And Analyze Property“? I forecast it would go for $1.85 million. 2553 Greenwich has a fantastic view of the Bay, but it doesn’t have a dedicated entrance, and it’s on three floors after walking up a flight of stairs…

I subscribe to the promotional emails of hundreds of companies so you don’t have to. I sift through 1,000 deal-touting emails every week. Most are worthless. But some offer valuable coupons, promo codes, sales and freebies — which I collect and organize.Note: Expiration dates are in brackets and special instructions are in parentheses…

That was the subject line of this email I just got and responded to 🙂 I have a feeling many of you can relate to it. Check it out below, along with my response, and then tell us what you think in the comments below. Let’s help out our fellow BudgetsAreSexy reader!
His email:
So, not sure if there is an answer to this but you are the finance blogger I most relate to so I figured I’d give it a shot…

I’m afraid of being broke.
I’m afraid of not having enough money to be able to pay for simple extracurricular expenses for my children, like a band instrument.
I’m afraid of working out of fear of losing a paycheck rather than the desire to create something and help others.
I’m afraid of having to constantly choose between needs and to have to choose mediocre solutions because that’s all I can afford…

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Gratuity is the payment paid by company to an employee if he/she completes 5 years of the service. It is a return favor from employers for their long service to the company. However it is government act which enforces companies to pay the gratuity as per the law…

I am no way rich or wealthy. But since childhood I learned how to protect wealth. By seeing people clinging to to their every belonging and calculating every way of saving money or protecting money from draining out. I chalked my plan to save every bit and protect my wealth, whatever I have.
 
I will try to formulate my strategy in this article…