Early Retirement Extreme

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

Not enjoying life in extreme early retirement?

Published in April 13th, 2013
Posted by in Early Retirement
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One of the most common objection consumers have to extreme early retirement is that it’s impossible to enjoy life on a low budget and therefore not worthwhile. That spending 75% of the best daylight hours working 9-5 so they can afford to “live a little” for the next 40 years is a better strategy. I’ve [...]

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What permaculture and ERE have in common

Published in April 10th, 2013
Posted by in Early Retirement, Philosophy
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ERE has been compared to permaculture, but it is not really derived from permaculture. In fact I have only read two books on permaculture and until recently I had a black thumb and no experience at all with growing things. Of course what the two share is that they’re both based on systems thinking, which [...]

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Breaking up with your career …

Published in April 10th, 2013
Posted by in Early Retirement, Work
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… is hard to do. Brauhster made a comment that retiring from one’s career is akin to divorce. I think that this is a good point. There are many parallels. The mental change one undergoes or must undergo to leave one’s career is similar to breaking up a long-term relationship. This is significantly different from [...]

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