New Position: Sempra

It's been a good little while since I've added any new positions into the Dividend Scythe but this week it finally received one. For this month's investment, I opened a position in Sempra Energy. If you haven't heard of the company before, Sempra Energy is a holding company that mainly operates out of San Diego. Their current holdings include but are not limited to San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), Southern California Gas Company (SoCal Gas), and Sempra South American Utilities. After reviewing their fundamentals and thinking on it for the last few months, I finally decided to pull the trigger on this addition.

Wealth: Stock Purchase

At first glance, the Dividend Reaper monthly budget was looking pretty terrible. First, the Christmas trip back to my home town took a nice deep cut into the vacation fund. Second, I purchased a new rifle for Christmas. Third, we had to decided to get my wife her first pair of designer jeans.

That last one was definitely a splurge. Honestly though, it seems like a good investment. Mrs. Dividend Reaper takes extremely good care of her things and we hardly ever have to replace any of her things. Pair that with the fact that she deals with me and you have a recipe for deserving a nice pair of jeans (for the first time in her life). If we're being extremely honest however, my purchase of a new rifle took the cake as far as large line items.

I digress. We're here to talk about what we did with the remaining balance after all was said and done in December and the beginning half of January. That I am happy to admit is not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Admittedly, it was much less than normal. However, both the wife and I worked both the Christmas and New Years shift so we obtained even more than usual through the nice boost that overtime pay provides.