October is more than officially in the books after a quick review of the income & expense breakdown for the month. It was another fun overall month, busy with work, travel, clients and other activities. I wonder if I still am achieving the 60% savings challenge? Only one way to find out, let’s check out my income & expense summary for October!
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My Phone Battle & Success with AT&T Cable & Internet
Well, well, it seems as though Bert was driving off of what I was able to accomplish with my mom’s package with AT&T recently/earlier this month. You know how this battle goes – price is too high, you don’t want to pay/can’t afford that service, want to save money to invest/act more frugal, but that does mean one thing we all dread… Calling your cable/internet provider. Luckily, I don’t have cable at my house, but my mom does, to which she wants to keep it. Well, I wanted to put the gloves on and go to battle for her, did I come out the victor? Let’s see how this went down and who stood at the end…
Notable Dividend Increases during November
It has been some wild ride this month – no doubt. Companies have begun/continued to release their ever so exciting dividend increases and I’m here smiling to receive them, that’s for sure. Some have increased them at a not so high level, some right on where you’d expect and others have had surprisingly nice dividend increases. I’m sadly going to be very conceited and focus on the dividend stocks in my portfolio that have made announcements mid-way through November. I primarily will be focused on the companies, years they have increased, the impact to the portfolio and essentially, bringing it all together to show why we are dividend investors. Okay, enough of this Italian typing away, let’s get to the article. 
Lanny’s Recent Purchase – HCP
November is underway folks! The market has had a blood bath out there and it was time for me to re-up in a position that I already had a stake in. Let’s just say – it was about time to pump my retirement accounts back up, since I haven’t contributed to that bad boy in months. Let’s see what purchase transaction I had!
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Lanny’s October Dividend Income
October is here! World Series baseball is in full swing and we are counting down the months to the end of the year. Holidays are amongst us with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Now is the time we really start to make the final push towards our final goals, investing metrics and dividend goals. Now… to the numbers!
Lanny’s September Income & Expense Summary
September is officially in the books after a quick review of the income & expense breakdown for the month. It was another fun overall month, busy with work, travel, clients and other activities. I wonder if I still am achieving the 60% savings challenge? Only one way to find out, let;s check out my income & expense summary for September!
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Lanny’s September Dividend Income
September… ah September. The leaves are changing and so did my dividend income for the month. It’s a wonderful quarter end, which for me and most investors – typically means a larger than normal month of dividend income to our portfolio. Most of the big blue chip companies pay on the calendar quarter end and I own quite a bit that does so. As the leaves change color and the temperature begins to cool in Ohio, our portfolios heat up with checks coming into our mailbox from all of the wonderful companies that we own. Now… to the numbers!