TimebuilderNot only impressive but quite inspirational. If l may some points and a question. You mentioned your wife's portfolio is doing better than yours , the question is does your wife actually actively participate and make her own investing decisions. As an example my wife's TFSA and definitely her RRIF are ahead of mine , but l make all the investing decisions as sh really has no interest.I tended as she is older than me to put any riskier investments in my account , not hers. That said l saw with interest your take on cutting out the dead wood , interesting and appropriate as we heat our house with wood harvested on our property. When l read your honest and above board holdings , it tweaked my interest as while l am a follower of the market there were some holdings of yours l was unfamiliar with APR for example and l spent some time this Sunday morning researching those names l knew nothing about. . When it comes to dead wood , l agree and looking at a few of your holdings , perhaps you should have reacted sooner , just saying but l am mystified why you would still want AQN in your portfolio. This mgmt is incompetent and if , a big if the stock recovers it will be years down the road , remember Manulife in 2009 , eerily similar. I am the first to admit l made major mistakes in 2014 , by falling in love with numerous OAnd G stocks , some of which are ancient and forgotten history ,PSN and TBE are good examples, Hopefully l never make those tragic mistakes ever again. Finally you called it a game and l agree as all our divs are reinvested along with a grand of new money every month. Your game end is to beat the Taxman , good for you , l don't have that problem , my goal is to beat the Market and so far this year l am well ahead , so that infers that l also beat the 70 percent of fund mgr pros who can't beat a simple market ETF.