Early Retirement Extreme

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Modified Navy Showers

Published in February 9th, 2025
Posted by in household
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According to wiki, a normal ten minute shower uses as much as 60 gallons of water. This means that the water tank of an boat or an RV(*) will be exhausted after a single shower. Therefore we’ll have to adopt to some kind of Navy shower. The thing I don’t like about Navy showers is […]

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Early Retirement Extreme – My story

Published in February 9th, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement
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I rewrote my FI story (from age 24 to 34 or so) and the first part of the new version is guest posted on Eliminate the Muda! Early Retirement Extreme – Jacob’s Story Early Retirement Extreme – the rest of the story You can read the old version here: How I became financially independent in […]

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My top 5 tips to becoming an extreme early retirement expert

Published in February 8th, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement, How to, Strategy
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I am not really a big fan of lists of tips of “small actionable steps”. While fun, at least as long as they’re short, I don’t find such lists very helpful(*), mostly because they either list things I’m already doing (turn the light off hen you leave the room) or things that do not apply […]

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