Early Retirement Extreme

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Retiring early on $500,000

Published in February 8th, 2023
Posted by in Early Retirement, Work
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This is a guest post from Debbie M giving a detailed budget for a retirement plan costing half a million dollars. For most incomes, half a million means a less early retirement. Yet, it is still earlier than the “usual million(s)”. The best part of my story is figuring out my expenses. Since I plan […]

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Personality psychology and early retirement resistance

Published in February 8th, 2023
Posted by in Early Retirement, Health
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Personality psychology is a very fascinating topic to me because I find it explains everything about humans. In particular, most disagreements come down to different personality types. People have different ways of making decisions, different ways of understanding, different ways of organizing and different ways of relating to other people and these ways can all […]

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Stranger in a strange land

Published in February 7th, 2023
Posted by in Early Retirement, Philosophy, Work
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Get a student loan. Get a college education. Get a mortgage and become a home owner. Have a career. Put 15% of your income in a 401k/IRA for 35 years. Plan to retire at 60… any of this sound familiar? That’s because it is the standard recipe for a “successful” life in middle class America. […]

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