Early Retirement Extreme

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Guestpost Extreme Early Retirement in Germany

Published in August 16th, 2019
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy, Work
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This is a guest post from Hein Viermann. A freegan in his early 30s, who lives in Germany and wants to get out of the corporate career system. He invests mainly in real estate/rentals. I was born in 1978 and I’m on the brink of retiring (extremely) early. As I started to be critical towards […]

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Guest post: ERE explained! – Part 1

Published in August 16th, 2019
Posted by in Early Retirement, Philosophy
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Following the HUGE forum discussion of the ethics of extreme early retirement which resulted in 133 (and counting) responses. Sawbones Surio wrote a very useful thread summary on the forums. Since more people still read the blog compared to the forum, I asked him if he would be willing to turn it into a summary […]

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The total cost of TV

Published in August 15th, 2019
Posted by in Early Retirement
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Monetary cost: $50/month = $600/year which requires savings of at least $15000 to sustain in retirement. Financially, a cable subscription will delay retirement for more than a year for most people. This assumes that one does not buy a new $1200 TV every other year which will double the numbers. A much bigger cost is […]

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