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 […]
Why this early retirement blog continuously talks about cycling and cooking?
Cheap fruits and vegetables via loss leaders
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 […]
Advanced cash flow diagrams
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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Manifesto
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Recommended
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Poor Richard’s Retirement by Aaron Clarey
A good starting point to convince yourself that you don’t need millions to retire. Includes example budgets.Paperback on amazon
Kindle version
One Million in the Bank
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How To Make $1,000,000 With Your Own Business Even If You Have No Money or Experience
Buy the paperback from amazon
21 day makeover
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