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Why this early retirement blog continuously talks about cycling and cooking?

Published in April 28th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in budgeting, cost of living, financial independence

It is now possible to subscribe to all the comments as a single feed via RSS.Financial independence comes from the combination of having enough money and spending sufficiently little so that interest from the former covers the expenses of the later. The biggest sources of personal expenses are generally

Children
Housing
Transport
Food
Taxes

Reducing expenses in these areas will [...]

Wealth is not about the money

Published in January 24th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in economy, financial independence

4 Comments

In the past few weeks I have written a lot about about wealth and how I became financially independent (part I, part II, part III, part IV). One of my posts, Stranger in a Strange Land, elicited a response from Lily over at The Honest Dollar. Of course I had to write my own response [...]

What early retirement means when you’re too young to retire

Published in January 6th, 2008

Posted by Jacob in Work, financial independence

13 Comments

What does early retirement mean for those who chose to save so intensely and early for retirement and essentially had enough money to stop working around age 30? This is a question I have been asking myself and for which there does not seem to be any conventional solutions.
In most cases, at least as far [...]

Can you wait, think, and fast?

Published in December 22nd, 2007

Posted by Jacob in financial independence, motivation

2 Comments

A quote that is entirely relevant to financial independence:
“His goal attracts him, because he doesn’t let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. This is what Siddhartha has learned among the Samanas. This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the [...]