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Dividends | May 2018

I am slowly but surely moving up! Lately I've enjoyed looking at how other dividend bloggers started off in their first year. Each month they slowly increased their dividends to what they are today and it shows me that anyone can do it. Even a stay-at-home mom!

TFSA

Laurentian Bank of Canada $3.15
Emera Inc $23.17
Inter Pipeline Ltd $11.48
Transalta Renewables Inc $6.66

Total : $44.46

RRSP

Plaza Retail REIT $5.48

Bringing my dividends to...

2018 Dividend Total: $234.77
2018 RRSP Dividend Total: $19.12

This is definitely motivating me to keep investing and slowly increasing my dividends. The $44 is enough to pay for a coffee almost every day of the month :) Now I just need to double it so I can buy my husband a coffee as well! Hahaha...

Happy investing!
Heather
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Location: Sainte-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay, QC J0L 1W0, Canada

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