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From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogJune 9, 2008 at 9:47 pm ET
Carpooling has been suggested as a solution to alleviate increasing gas prices. The problem is that finding someone to carpool with is a difficult task requiring much research into whether the driver is dependable, etc. ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogJune 8, 2008 at 10:49 am ET
This recipe is grand because it can be cooked in the morning and eaten in the evening.
Start in the evening by soaking some black eyed peas and some navy beans. These can be pressure cooked ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogJune 7, 2008 at 9:34 pm ET
Some people have asked me what they can do to compensate me for all my rants on this site. Usually I tell them that while I won’t accept any tangibles — mostly because I got ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogJune 7, 2008 at 2:19 pm ET
I’ve been annoyed at having to throw out the last 5% of my (stick) deodorants that doesn’t come up no matter how much the dial on the bottom is turned. Now, I have a solution ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogJune 6, 2008 at 10:22 am ET
I’m constantly blown away by people who spend $250+ per person per month. Over time this adds up to tremendous amounts of money. Most likely, such huge food bills are due to eating out or ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogJune 4, 2008 at 10:37 am ET
One must save to retire, because savings transfer purchasing power from the present to the future and in order to stop working one must have claims on future goods. That much is obvious (if not, ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 29, 2008 at 10:11 am ET
I have started using vinegar and baking soda for basic cleaning. Generally I spread baking soda of the grime and then soak a rag in vinegar. When the acid of the vinegar comes in contact ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 28, 2008 at 10:32 am ET
In retrospect it is amazing how subprime loans could go so wrong? Who in their right mind could believe that real estate always goes up? For that matter, what about the dot.com craze and the ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 27, 2008 at 10:32 am ET
According to google I am now the second highest ranked authority on extreme early retirement. I suppose this comes about because I have a “google ranking” of 4 which again comes about because I have ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 26, 2008 at 10:12 am ET
I am convinced we could live without a car. Granted, there are certain conveniences we would have to go without, but having given it some thought, I think going without a car would not be ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 24, 2008 at 9:12 pm ET
When it comes to consumer durables, I rarely pay retail. These days stuff is generally well made (lasts for years), yet people have a desire to buy things as if they were going out of ... ( more)
From Early Retirement Extreme - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 22, 2008 at 11:11 pm ET
As I have mentioned before extreme early retirement (<35) does not happen due to a prudent investment plan. It happens either by following an extreme savings plan or by being lucky (rich uncle, lottery, penny ... ( more)
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)
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