Early Retirement Extreme

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

Endurance events

Published in May 5th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in entertainment, fitness

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One possible way of spending retirement is to enroll in marathons, ironmen (or is that ironmans?), ultracycling, etc. all over the country or planet depending on ambition. Last Sunday I completed my first century (actually it turned into [...]

The value of hobbies

Published in March 18th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in education, entertainment, rat race

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Coming from the mindset of an earlier post about passion, I am speaking of the values that optimizes the successful triad of health, wealth, and wisdom (all part of financial independence) rather than more typical choice of comfortable or exciting escapism (all part of the rat race?) which to me suggests a lack of fulfillment [...]

Your TV is not going to be obsolete

Published in January 11th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in entertainment

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In 2009 “TV” is scheduled to go “digital”. What this means is that the airwaves will no longer be analogue. It does not mean that everything switches to HDTV. It simply means that TVs with analogue tuners will no longer be able to receive broadcast signals which will be exclusively digital. If you have a [...]

Financially free

Published in January 3rd, 2008

Posted by Jacob in entertainment

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Heavily inspired by the Molson beer commercials several years back.
Hey,
I’m not a trust fund baby
Or a dot com millionaire
And I didn’t get famous on TV
Or win the lottery
Or a game show
And I don’t earn a six figure income
Although I’m sure that would be really really nice
I live within my means, not beyond them
I have [...]

Pandora and the box of unknown wants

Published in December 23rd, 2007

Posted by Jacob in entertainment, freebies

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If you have a high speed (DSL or faster) internet connection and you like music but find yourself frustrated with radio stations playing the same music over and over again head over to Pandora.
Pandora has a team of musicians analyzing songs for tone, sound, tonality, etc. I believe they call it the DNA of [...]

What do you have to show for it?

Published in December 9th, 2007

Posted by Jacob in anticonsumerism, consumerism, entertainment, motivation, standard of living

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Being part of a thrifty counter-culture can sometimes lead to self-doubt. Why am I being frugal, when everybody else are spendthrift? Adopting frugal habits can often be alienating to people who have adopted a consumerist lifestyle. Some of the comments on this article on Staying Frugal in the Age of the iPhone by Anya Kamenetz [...]