I’m posting this late — sorry about that.  Mad at myself for letting it get away from me because I really do want to be able to look back and see the progress my portfolio has made.

NCT             $1.80

SPY              $2.07

MDY            $.90

BBEP            $.21

NAUH          $.36

Online Lending:  $14.68

October 2015 Total:   $20.02

September wasn’t that big of a passive income month — it is frustrating to watch all these little numbers come in, but I just have to keep reminding myself that it’s adding to a total and NEXT September will be larger than this September and so on.  I’m trying!  I am also adding to my stock list.  I bought more EMR, initiated positions in WFC & CSX, added to T…..little by little.  I did hit my first mini milestone though — I am officially over the $100 mark for passive income for the year.  Gotta start somewhere!  We have also been much more conscious of cutting costs to free up money to put into the brokerage acct which in itself is a win for us and we also sent over $2,000 this month to the Roth’s.  We are on track to fully fund our Roth’s for 2015 which is a goal of mine.  All in all a pretty good month for us.  It’s a learning process and my learning curve has been steep but I’m not giving up.  I think this building dividend/passive income is a good thing for our future and as the Dividend Mantra says, I’m adding snowflakes to the snowball.  Thus far it has been an interesting journey and I’m really glad I started on it — and chronicling it.

JNJ:     $12.00

FONE:    $.27

CAPL:     $2.25

BBEP:     $.21

AWR:     $2.02

P2P Lending Payment:      $14.39

September 2015 Passive Income Total:     $31.14

Here it is already time to report my passive income totals for August 2015.  Where the heck did that month go?  This for me was a month when most of my holdings paid dividends so that was exciting for me.  We also started a P2P account so we got our first payment from that also.

P2P Lending Payment:  $2.87

HCP:  $10.17

T:  $14.10

CVS:  $3.85

EPD:  $.76

PAA:  $.70

KMI:  $.98

BBEP:  $.21

COST:  .80

PG:  $19.56

Total August 2015 Passive Income:  $54.00

As always I wish I had more money to invest but we are on track to fully fund our Roth’s this year and we now have 4 months saved in our emergency fund.  We are in such a better place than a year ago and I am so thankful!  Keeping it going!!

Updating my tracking for July 2015 — another small month but better than nothing!  I have added to my shares in JNJ and HCP and am about to buy EMR.  Looking forward to August’s numbers since a lot of companies seem to be on the 2/5/8/11 dividend payment schedule.  I do like the fact that I got money from 5 extra places not including my J-O-B.  Just gotta keep plugging and adding shares so the payouts get bigger.  Sent $500 to a P2P lending site so I’m waiting to see a return from that.  Don’t know how I feel about it yet.

NCT:  $1.80

BBEP:  $.21

NAUH:  $.09

MDY:   $.92

SPY:   $2.06

July 2015 Total:  $5.08

Can’t believe another month has gone by.  We’re into July  — my favorite time of the year — SUMMER!!! Cookouts, beach days, red, white & blue, picnics, hammocks, waves, sunblock, going barefoot, lobsters & steamers, corn on the cob, strawberries, concerts, screen doors slapping shut, lawnmowers out in force……I wish summer was all year ’round.

For my own tracking and amusement, (and for anyone that stops by here), I am tracking my dividend income because I would like to see the progression of how it grows.  I was able to buy 11 shares of JNJ in June because the price dipped which means it’s on sale(!), and also buy 7 shares of HCP.  These are both in my Roth but at least I have them.  I’m chomping to add more to my taxable acct but different things have come up so I’m gonna have to put that off for a second.  Can’t wait to add JNJ and HCP to the dividend income list.

Here’s the June 2015 dividend income breakdown:

FONE (Smartphone Index):  $.33

CAPL (Crossamerica Partners LP:  $2.19

BBEP (Breitburn Energy):  $.21

AWR (American States Water Co):  $1.92

Total June 2015 Dividend Income:  $4.65

          This is definitely not much, I agree, but it’s free money essentially and I’ll take that.  And it’s something to build on, so again, I’ll take that.  Right now I have my dividends going into my FRIP and it’s set to purchase shares in NAUH (National American University Holdings, Inc) when it gets up to enough.  NAUH is a company that I found on the Champion’s List that isn’t much money per share (right now it’s trading about $3.10) so each month my FRIP is basically buying me a share for free.  In the middle of July it will buy me my third share.  NAUH also gives a dividend so around and around we go.

          Have a great summer!

May 2015 Dividend Income:

So now that I’m keeping track of dividend income — this is the first month that I have ever added it up.  Several things strike me in looking at this.  I didn’t think it would be over $20 and I didn’t think PG’s contribution would be so high.  Very pleased with that. Another thing that strikes me is how mad I am at myself that I only bought onesie twosie shares in companies.  I didn’t have the money to invest more than that at the time and instead of waiting I just bought tiny little pieces and I’m sure I have a long way to go to make up the commissions of those small trades.  Dumb.  I should have waited and pooled more money together to get more than only one or two shares to make the commission not such a huge percentage of the buy.  But that’s what this page is about — for me to live and learn from my mistakes.  The other thing that stands out to me is that I received money from 6 different companies — six mini paychecks.  Kinda cool!  Can’t wait til it is 26!  🙂  This money, if I was taking it out instead of reinvesting, would buy me a tank of gas!

Here is the breakdown of the income for May:

Proctor & Gamble (PG): $17.76

Enterprise Products Partners (EPD): $.75

Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA): $.69

Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI): $.96

Costco (COST): $.80

Breitburn Energy Partners LP (BBEP): $.21

TOTAL:  $21.17