Early Retirement Extreme

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

Cheap fruits and vegetables via loss leaders

Published in April 22nd, 2021
Posted by in budgeting, frugal
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The cheapest fruits and vegetables are the one’s you grow yourself (we’re working on it). A secondary choice for the more social and enterprising kind is to ask people if you can come and pick it off their lawn or trees in exchange for, say, half the loot. For the less enterprising, I suggest loss […]

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

Published in November 10th, 2020
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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Advanced cash flow diagrams

Published in September 10th, 2020
Posted by in budgeting, personal finance
15 Comments

One of the things I get used to get paid for on a daily basis is was to sit and stare at large amounts of numbers and try to make sense of them. The thing that has repeatedly helped me understand those numbers is to develop some way of visualizing these numbers. It is not […]

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