Early Retirement Extreme

Financial independence, frugality, self-sufficiency, ecology, capitalism, and voluntary simplicity

I revised my blogroll

Published in July 23rd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, blogging

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Check it out in the lower right. I try to keep the blogroll short and relevant to this site. I also try to keep it somewhat representative of the blogs I actually read on a daily basis (hence blogroll). [...]

Weekend roundup - garage sale edition

Published in July 12th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, carnival, money

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To prepare for downsizing we had a garage sale today. We got rid of a bunch of stuff. The median price was about $1 and the average price was not much higher, and overall we sold for about $60, so all in all we did manage to shed a bunch of stuff. It still looks [...]

Saturday Roundup - 4th of July edition

Published in July 5th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, carnival

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Great success! I asked the big question and DW finally accepted. “Should we walk down to Walmart”, I asked and she said yes. We were walking down there to get some red vines, which in case you don’t know them are molasses, flour and corn syrup with taste and color. On the way we saw [...]

Weekly roundup - RV edition

Published in June 23rd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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Wow, I almost managed to post every day last week. Maybe taking a break from the blogosphere and reading a lot of books helped. One book I particularly enjoy(ed) is The Last American Man, which I think readers would enjoy.
Saturday, DW and I went to an RV show and checked out the goods. The “as [...]

Volunteer opportunity on ERE

Published in June 7th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, job

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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 enough stuff as it is but mainly because I don’t want the IRS to get a cut — they can [...]

New schedule

Published in May 2nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, blogging

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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

My favorite writings of April 2008 - including ecological budget

Published in May 1st, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, ecological footprint

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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 are the best posts of April 2008.

Making changes

Row, row, row your boat — On the law of comparative advantage

Why [...]

Saturday Roundup - One day late edition

Published in April 26th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, blogging, carnival

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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 and 7 pm. Sometimes (especially Sundays) I write several posts and space them out. Very many bloggers do that. This [...]

Saturday Roundup - More book swapping

Published in April 5th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, books, carnival

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Paperbackswap.com has turned out to be great for “upgrading” my personal library. I list books I haven’t read for a year and which I can not really imagine reading again. Since books are swapped one-to-one it has turned out to be less great for getting rid of books (and I have a lot of books [...]

My favorite writings of March 2008

Published in April 2nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, voluntary simplicity

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I just saw a comment on another site that ERExtreme is really a minimalist blog claiming to be a personal finance blog. This is probably true. I have not been writing much about personal finance, since for me it is mostly a solved problem. Live in a consumer culture where salaries are high, but defy [...]

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