Early Retirement Extreme

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

Preliminaries to retiring in 5 years

Published in October 17th, 2019
Posted by in Early Retirement, Transportation
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I usually start my “program” with a relocation closer to work and shopping. This allows one to shed at least one car. The rest is just variations and polishing that theme. Extreme early retirement can thus be reached through a frugal antisuburan lifestyle without car dependence, hour long commutes, and big houses. Note that this […]

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Top 5 reasons why sidewalks are not safe

Published in October 10th, 2019
Posted by in Transportation
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In this new series of posts I give popular personal finance advise in an easily digestible list format of tips, reasons, things, and so on. I will tell you how you too can be rich, good-looking, or perhaps just plain awesome by adopting these amazing insights which have been developed by a real PhD. Also […]

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Car depreciation and maintenance

Published in September 28th, 2019
Posted by in How to, Transportation
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For those who do want a car but would prefer to keep costs as minimal as possible, I suggest (not based on personal experience at all, incidentally) buying a used car without too much electronics and doing as much maintenance on it yourself as possible. This is subject area where I am at stage 0 […]

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