Early Retirement Extreme

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

Backlinks to earlyretirementextreme.com

Published in January 21st, 2022
Posted by in Blogging, Early Retirement
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When someone posts a link to earlyretirementextreme.com, wordpress usually picks up a backlink which I usually delete since it is usually always spammers. However, I also enjoy what one could call backstalking, that is, watching the refering link on sitemeter when someone actually clicked into the blog. This mostly leads back to an interesting/relevant blog […]

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Ecological capitalism and consumer capitalism

Published in January 21st, 2022
Posted by in Philosophy
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The Master said: “Ci, do you regard me as someone who learns much and commits it all to memory?” Zi-gong replied: “Yes, are you not?” The Master said: “No, I use one string to tie it all together.” — from the Analects of Confusius Have you ever noticed that what used to be referred to […]

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The blender, the spice grinder

Published in January 20th, 2022
Posted by in How to
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As it turns out, our $25 blender can grind spices to a flour like powder on the ice crushing setting. I did not know that! Knowing that could have saved a lot of hours with the mortar and pestle, and it could also have saved the 15 bucks spent to get it a few years […]

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