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From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 19, 2008 at 9:00 pm ET
While trying to avoid repeating myself by not blogging daily anymore, I have been reading a lot of books lately. I got 13 checked out from the library, another 9 on request, and I got ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 19, 2008 at 2:18 am ET
Thank you for the generous $1200 stimulus package gift we just received from you. You know, traditionally it’s been the obligation one generation to help the next generation along. Parents help out their children, even ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 12, 2008 at 10:42 pm ET
Maybe when oil reaches $200 in a few years as predicted by the same Goldman-Sachs analyst that predicted $105 dollar oil by 2009, part of the freeway system, which is now overpopulated by cars and ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 11, 2008 at 1:54 pm ET
I was inspired to post the following by a recent mail from T. and some earlier writings on the ecology of society. I would like to draw your attention to The Gamesman by Michael Maccoby. ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 10, 2008 at 12:05 pm ET
I get a couple of mails a week from people in the same situation as me (enough money, what to do now?) and it strikes me that most people(*) pursue a “the grass is greener” ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 6, 2008 at 12:29 am ET
One possible way of spending retirement is to enroll in marathons, ironmen (or is that ironmans?), ultracycling, etc. all over the country or planet depending on ambition. Last Sunday I completed my first century ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 3, 2008 at 9:50 pm ET
Adolescents have a sense of die-hard immortality that comes from having given no thought to their future. I realized that I wasn’t immortal when I was 21-22. This implied the full realization that my life ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 2, 2008 at 9:00 pm ET
In order to keep the content interesting and novel, I’ll be moving from a 5+1 posts a week to a more or less random schedule. Ahh, the luxury of a noncommercial blog ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 1, 2008 at 10:10 am ET
A better way of “growing” in a limited world is to increase quality. Make things better fitting, smaller, and more efficient instead of just making them bigger and more powerful. With that in mind, here ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 30, 2008 at 10:00 am ET
In many ways I consider the problem of early retirement solved. I [think I] have shown what kind of choices that must be made, how to make them, and what it takes to reach financial ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 29, 2008 at 10:04 am ET
From a minimalist/financial independence extremist perspective ordinary books on good housekeeping (in case you need to learn it from a book ) just won’t cut it. Actually when it comes to financial independence, information ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 28, 2008 at 10:37 am ET
Financial independence comes from the combination of having enough money and spending sufficiently little so that interest from the former covers the expenses of the later. The biggest sources of personal expenses are generally
Children
Housing
Transport
Food
Taxes
Reducing expenses ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 27, 2008 at 12:47 pm ET
This blog is turning into a cycling blog. The past few weeks I have posted several times on the century (100 miles) I’m doing next Sunday. Although I have now been told that this have ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 26, 2008 at 10:55 pm ET
I can manipulate the date on posts, so this was actually written tomorrow. Similarly, most posts around here are not written on weekdays between 7 and 8 am but rather on day before between 5 ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 25, 2008 at 10:34 am ET
Food rationing has returned to the US for the first time since World War II. Along with the ongoing bet of which will reach $5/gallon first — gas or milk (I say gas)– this is ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 24, 2008 at 10:18 am ET
When my mom was a kid, they had something called school clothes and play clothes. School clothes had to be kept clean and play clothes was something one changed into after school. The washing machine ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 23, 2008 at 10:20 am ET
So yesterday I was out all afternoon training for the upcoming 100 miler. It’s the Sunday after the next one which leaves me two weeks to get ready for battle. During my lunch break, I ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 22, 2008 at 10:12 am ET
Jacob’s posts on how frugal living and only buying what one really needs allows one to save up to three quarters of one’s income to reach financial independence and early retirement seem to be irresponsible ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 21, 2008 at 10:25 am ET
Compared to the IRA with its $5,000 limit, the 401k with its $15,000 possesses an unfair advantage. Everybody with a W-2 income can get an IRA, whereas not everybody is lucky enough to have access ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 20, 2008 at 12:13 am ET
Today I went riding on a 20M loop. I passed 10-12 riders heading in the opposite direction. First the was the sole riders in team wear, then a couple of riders well sucking following by ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 18, 2008 at 10:01 am ET
First some nomenclature: A century is 100 miles on a bicycle. It is something serious cyclists would maybe call a long ride, but which weekend warriors have elevated to event status as a testament to ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 17, 2008 at 10:07 am ET
A reader asked me how I combine the warrior diet with extreme frugality. The simple answer is that I don’t. I don’t follow the warrior diet to the letter, nor am I nearly as frugal ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 16, 2008 at 10:10 am ET
One cooked cauliflower for the elven kings under the sky,
an equal volume of boiled potatoes for the dwarf lords,
nine dashes of pepper for mortal men, doomed to die.
One pan for the dark lord, also a ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 15, 2008 at 10:12 am ET
Mrs Micah asked what’s wrong with being middle class focusing on not working enjoyable but not too stressful jobs and still having the time and money to live comfortably. Lazyman talked about the upper limit ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 14, 2008 at 10:16 am ET
I first got introduced to hockey in phys ed. in elementary school. Our teacher handed out these yellow plastic sticks and put two mylec goals at each end and let us have at it. I ... ( more)
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