Early Retirement Extreme

— a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, and applied capitalism

This weeks round up – heating costs are down

Published in January 26th, 2008
Posted by in Announcements, Personal
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The heating strategy we recently implemented decreased the utility bill by $30 compared to last month. This is promising. Not only did we not use this strategy for the full month. It has also been significantly colder this month outside – as well as inside . I was half fearing that the space heater that [...]

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Early Retirement Extreme’s budget

Published in January 21st, 2008
Posted by in budgeting, household, Personal, Timely
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I just went over the budget again just to give you an idea of where we’re at. In 2007, we had a combined income of $87k, a 12% tax rate, and living costs of $24k leaving $52k for frivolous stock purchases, etc. Being a few sigma off the mean (but I do know people — [...]

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So you say my blog is worth $15000 already?

Published in January 21st, 2008
Posted by in Announcements, Personal
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I came across this tool for calculating the worth of your blog. I got $15000 which is not bad for 6 weeks of writing. I’m not sure exactly how this is calculated though. Is this a pure play estimate of what similar blogs have sold for. Quite possibly it is just a measure of some [...]

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