Early Retirement Extreme

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Top 5 reasons why sidewalks are not safe

Published in April 22nd, 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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Dollar cost averaging at the pump for cheaper gas

Published in April 8th, 2019
Posted by in How to, Transportation
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This may be taking it to extremes, but try dollar cost averaging at the pump for cheaper gas. Obviously this does not work if you have to detour to get gas, but if the gas station is on your route and you merely have to pull over, do this. Instead of filling the tank up, […]

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Car depreciation and maintenance

Published in March 30th, 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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