Early Retirement Extreme

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

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Published in October 28th, 2020
Posted by in Early Retirement
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Heavily inspired by the Molson beer commercials several years back. Hey, I’m not a trust fund baby Or a dot com millionaire And I didn’t get famous on TV Or win the lottery Or a game show And I don’t earn a six figure income Although I’m sure that would be really really nice I […]

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My top 5 tips to becoming an extreme early retirement expert

Published in October 25th, 2020
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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Waking up from Big House Dreams: our crooked path towards early retirement

Published in October 21st, 2020
Posted by in Early Retirement
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Yesterday, I asked if anyone was interested in sharing their plans for early retirement. TL Black, whom you may know from the comments on this blog and who blogs on The Simple Life in France, was quick to respond, and so here is her story. In 2006, we made $100,000 a year and spent $30,000 […]

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