It is the time of the month to announce the dividend income that I made for the month of May! Please keep in mind that I only started investing about 5 months ago and put in only 882$, which grew to date (06/01/2016) to 1,221$ due to great timing when oil stocks were really great buys.

So far, I have accumulated 19.06$ in passive income since January 2016. The month of May has proven to be the highest dividend income that I have received so far with 7.65$, which of course I have reinvested.



Here is the breakdown of the companies that paid me in May 2016:

DIVIDEND INCOME - May 2016
Ticker	Amount
Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI)	$2.00
ONEOK Inc. (OKE)	$3.08
Royal Bank of Canada (RY)	$0.62
The GEO Group Inc. (GEO)	$1.95
Total	$7.65

Although the amount I have invested seems minimal at this point, I hope to grow my portfolio and passive income this year with at least $5,000-10,000 in my portfolio AND at least $25 in dividends per month. I am not sure yet if this is feasible, but I did score a new job at a big investment firm so that should help me at least with the portfolio side of the equation.

Thanks for reading everyone and have a nice day!
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This post is totally unrelated to dividend investing, but I still wanted to share one of my reasons for being so frugal and wanting to reach financial independence as soon as possible.

I grew up in a single-parent household. Traveling to places outside of Canada was something unheard of in my family. Our family just had enough for food and lodging for my mother, my two siblings and I.

When I turned 18, I saved enough money to travel to France and Italy with my sister. My uncle had graciously offered us to stay with him in his small apartment in France, which saved us a lot on logging costs and allowed us to spend three months in Europe.

After coming back from our summer trip, my sister and I vowed to travel more in the future. We started off going down to the south of the border (NY!). Since then, I have been to NY at least 5 times.

After I married my then-boyfriend of 5 years, we lived in Virginia for a few months and went a road trip across the country, to finally being stationed in California.

I will be updating my portfolio regularly and I will also be adding charts to show you any progress.

FYI: When I moved to the United States, we had many expenses (including a wedding and a move across the country!). I was also waiting on immigration papers to be completed so I was unable to work for 8 months. I started investing as soon as I got my green card. So far I have invested about 800$, which is not a lot honestly, but it's a good start. Please bear with me and I hope you continue reading my blog and following my journey!