Early Retirement Extreme

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Guest Post: Paul Wheaton on using cast iron skillets

Published in April 29th, 2024
Posted by in How to
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This is a guest post from Paul Wheaton from permies.com which is the home of the permaculture forums. (You may have noticed the links I put up on the right recently + in a couple of weeks there’ll be a podcast interview with me on Paul’s site.) Permaculture and ERE has a lot in common […]

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Financially free

Published in April 28th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement
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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 […]

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The 100 things challenge

Published in April 27th, 2024
Posted by in Strategy
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I am sure you have all heard of the concept of reducing your number of possessions to 100 things. Why 100(*)? Probably because it makes for a great book title or blog project of the “How I did X in a year” [and then returned to my normal ways with a nice check from the […]

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