Early Retirement Extreme

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

Why this early retirement blog continuously talks about cycling and cooking?

Published in March 31st, 2023
Posted by in budgeting, cost of living, financial independence
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Financial independence comes from the combination of having enough money and spending sufficiently little so that interest from the former covers the expenses of the later. The biggest sources of personal expenses are generally Children Housing Transport Food Taxes Reducing expenses in these areas will make a much larger impact that token efforts such as […]

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Useful tools: Supercook

Published in March 31st, 2023
Posted by in How to
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Supercook searches through a database of recipes based on the ingredients you have and it does so very easily mentioning how many recipes you can currently make (with a clickable link) and possible ingredients you are missing. If you have those as well, you don’t need to type them in. Just click on them and […]

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Making changes

Published in March 30th, 2023
Posted by in motivation
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Changes that depend more on a lack of a particular attitude(*) than a lack of skills or opportunities, will generally progress through the following stages. (*) Health goals, diet goals, debt and savings goals generally fall within this category. Precontemplation. The person does not see a need for change although others often do see a […]

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