Early Retirement Extreme

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

Preliminaries to retiring in 5 years

Published in July 17th, 2017
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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Bicycle riders on the freeway

Published in July 11th, 2017
Posted by in Transportation
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Maybe when oil reaches $200 in a few years as predicted by the same Goldman-Sachs analyst that predicted $105 dollar oil by 2009, part of the freeway system, which is now overpopulated by cars and SUVs(*), will be converted into bicycle paths. One can dream, right? (*) I can’t help but compute (with a certain […]

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A homemade map holder for my bicycle

Published in July 5th, 2017
Posted by in How to, Transportation
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Upon request, I post a picture of the handlebar map holder I made for my touring bicycle. It’s a thin piece of plywood (or whatever you have, other wood, plastic, metal) cut out to fit standard AAA road maps. It’s attached to a mountain bike handlebar with a quill stem. I drilled some holes and […]

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