Living off dividends, interest, and treasury bills/bonds in early retirement

<h1>Our strategy is as follows:</h1> <p>1) Dividends &mdash; spread between SCHD, VYM, and a handful of stocks (e.g. JPMorgan Chase, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Pfizer). Most dividends are paid quarterly in March, June, September, and December of each year.</p> <p>2) High yield savings accounts like Marcus and Ally. We use Ally to set up automatic monthly transfers of $500 to our Chase checking accounts, in order to avoid the monthly fees once we won&rsquo;t have a direct deposit (our salary) going into Chase. The reason we keep our Chase checking accounts in addition to Schwab is just to have a plan b, in case Schwab is</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@retire.early.in.mexico/living-off-dividends-interest-and-treasury-bills-bonds-in-early-retirement-80bb51b02a6"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>