Early Retirement Extreme

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

My favorite writings of March 2008

Published in April 2nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, voluntary simplicity

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

Saturday Roundup - 500 subscribers in 4 months

Published in March 29th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, blogging, carnival

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According to feedburner, there are now more than 500 people who regularly read my staggering thoughts of genius what I write. I don’t know exactly how feedburner counts, but in the past few days the subscriber number has really taken off adding over 100 new subscribers in a week. I don’t know why, because I’m [...]

Saturday Roundup - A safety moment (with taxes)!

Published in March 22nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, carnival, economy, sub-prime, taxes

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Today we’re going to one of the tax companies to get our state taxes done. Hopefully they will give us a discount since I already did the federal return myself. In 2007 we were apart time resident of two states. The tax consequences of that can be described in one word: PAIN! Mostly the problem [...]

Saturday Roundup - Interview edition

Published in March 15th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, carnival

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This week I got interviewed by KimC over at frugalhacks.com. If you want to know some more details about the motivations for this site and my background head on over and read the interview. Moving on … paperbackswap.com is really working for me. I already got two books waiting for me that I would otherwise [...]

Saturday Roundup - ecological freelance edition

Published in March 8th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, carnival, ecological footprint

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I’m off to another training session for my new job. I’m fairly excited about it because it’s a job that gives an immediate feeling of accomplishment and because of the time-control it offers. Now I discovered that it also offers significant control over our taxes. Woohoo!
In other news, check out this new supposedly green dream [...]

My favorite writings of February 2008

Published in March 2nd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, ecological footprint

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It is interesting how valuation is sometimes determined by things other than value. For instance, if a reader agrees with an author the reader will say that the post is well written and vice-a-versa (*). So with that in mind (given that I like myself), here are my favorite posts for February 2008, hmmm [...]

Saturday Roundup - This page intentionally left blank edition

Published in March 1st, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, carnival

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Currently I am in training as freelance editor for an academic publisher. In addition the spring season of the adult league is commencing, so now I play hockey three times a week. Therefore I need to reclaim some time over the weekends and thus there will no longer be any regular posts during the weekend [...]

Saturday Roundup and Carnivals - the class society edition

Published in February 23rd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, carnival, culture

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I found a New York Times article on to measure your relative position in prestige, education, income and wealth. Sounds fun so here are my numbers.

Occupation: 82th percentile. This is based on a survey of what random people in America thinks is the most prestigious. For someone that frequently get blank stares when I [...]

Saturday roundup and festivals - novocain edition

Published in February 16th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements, carnival

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This week I overdosed on novocain at the dentist and almost passed out, reached my threshold for turning earlyretirementextreme.com into a business, and scored 4 goals in a pick up game (personal record). Other than that it was a fairly uneventful week.
I bookmarked the following links:

Turbotax 2007 premier contest - Generation X Finance has a [...]

Guest posts

Published in February 13th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in announcements

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If you would like to do a guest post on earlyretirementextreme.com, send me an email.
The address is < my first name > @earlyretirementextreme.com
Also if you would like me to do a guest post on your blog, let me know. The condition here is that you have to suggest a topic where I can play [...]

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