Early Retirement Extreme

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

Quantifying success

Published in August 9th, 2019
Posted by in Blogging
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I’ll admit that I too suffer from the unhealthy (stressful?!) habit of trying to quantify success. In a materialistic society, success is frequently quantified by the kind of stuff we use to make statements about our success such as big houses and big cars. A less direct but equally important means of determining success is […]

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Bloggers should communicate their personal opinions

Published in August 3rd, 2019
Posted by in Blogging, Work
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I do not recall anyone having ever informed me that they disagree with me on some issue and that they therefore will unsubscribe from my blog(*). Yet, it is something I see from time to time on large blogs. (*) Perhaps my blog is too small. It seems that there is a common sentiment or […]

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What people ought to know about the different kinds of personal finance blogs

Published in July 29th, 2019
Posted by in Blogging, cost of living
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Personal finance blogs primarily fall in three major categories. First, there are the “getting out of debt” blogs. Second, there are the “just got out of college” personal finance blogs. Third, there are the “career track” personal finance blogs. Of course there are more categories such as retirement blogs or I-won-the-lottery blogs, but these are […]

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